blueprint

[brittle reef]

im still getting the problem of the first one freezing and the second one moving

think the ideal would make these two actors that im calling separated

getting a copy of them, idk

[keen terrace]

@maiden wadi Thanks I will give that a go

[burnt berry]

What do you mean by first one freezing second one moving? You should also call "Play" and not "Play from Start"

[brittle reef]

i will try to be more clear, right now im making a spell that goes forward and im using spawn actor instead of spawn system because i want to make an overlap event to cause damage, so if i cast the spell once and cast it again when its moving it will spawn two spells, but the first one stops moving when i call the second one

and the second one keeps moving

[maiden wadi]

It's because you're using the same timeline. The timeline needs to be in the spell, not the caster.

It's worth asking. What is the purpose for using a timeline on the spell?

[brittle reef]

@maiden wadi that worked, thanks!

i was following a course that teached a dash system and they used timeline to make the character move

so im using the same to move the object

[untold rose]

Is there a way to force close the game / create a custom error message if for example a cast fails (or any condition in a BP happens)? Like, a node that closes the game and opens a warning window?
I want some warnings in case something is set up incorrectly, a print string is my plan B, but something that you just can't miss would be preferrable.

[maiden wadi]

@brittle reef Hmm, fair I suppose. Normally I'd just use a projectile movement or tick with some math, unless I was making something rather complicated, that needed a very hard to math out curve.

@untold rose Hmm. Not directly. Not in blueprint. The best you're going to get is some breakpoint triggering. Put like a print node past the failed condition of the cast, and breakpoint it. That'd pause the game abruptly.

[winged sentinel]

hi everyone, i duplicted my players blueprint to base it on AI but now all the selfs are broken, is there a way I can automatically replace all of them instead of deleting a recreating them all again?

[sharp dew]

Does anyone know how to reference a particle object? What I'm trying isn't working.

[dusty oxide]

Hi, I have an issue with a BP Spline. The closed loop has some bounds in the viewport, but on the level when I modify the spline that bounding box will remain the same.

Here is the spline in the BP:

and in the level

What could be the problem? How can I has the BP refresh the bounding box in the map as well?
I am using the above nodes in the Construction Graph.
edit : but as I see any of the "get component bounds" nodes are not refreshing in editor.

[white lynx]

Is there a way to reparent a data asset in the Editor?

[wide topaz]

Is there a way to use ALS with AI MoveTo?

(Advanced Locomotion System)

[shrewd summit]

what's the best collisions for a capsule component? sometimes when my enemy runs into my player my player goes flying or vice versa
and i think it may be a problem with collisions on the capsule
example of what i mean
sometimes they go flying into space but normally just a little but i wanna stop this effect

[sharp dew]

I'm trying to refer to the HUD widget from my ThirdPersonBlueprint for skill activations, but it's giving me an error every time I try to use a skill. Does anyone know how to fix this?

[brittle reef]

im running in another problem, im making a spell that goes forward and it actually works but the damage is being dealt in (i think) each frame and i want it to just tick one time, those nodes comes from a beginplay, do you guys know any solution?

[dawn gazelle]

Have you set the reference to HUD Widget before this? Ie. when creating it and adding it to viewport, are you storing the refrence to the widget in the HUD Widget variable?

[odd roost]

Okay, this may be related to a physics actor but I'm not sure. I'm saving a loading the transform of an actor that simulates physics with physics constraints, but when I set the actor transform on load it is always in the same location of where I placed it in the level. Save and Load print string both show the updated transform, but the actor is always loaded in the same place. Any ideas on this one?

[sharp dew]

How would I do that? I'm not sure what that means

[odd roost]

Drag off Return Value and Promote to Variable, that way you can reference it when you need it

[sharp dew]

Thanks, it's working now

[odd roost]

Add the hit actor to an array and have it ignore actors

obviously add it after the tag check

[brittle reef]

it worked perfecly, you re a f god

thanks 🙂

[odd roost]

lol no worries

[shrewd summit]

any help here?

[odd roost]

check the collision on the mesh, and not the capsule

if you have a foot outside of the capsule that hits a capsule of another actor, the collision is mesh to capsule, not capsule to capsule

[mystic lantern]

if your enemies have a character movement component, chances are the push force factor on that component is still it's default 750000

[odd roost]

you can test this by standing still and see if they push you around

[unreal jetty]

hey so a bit of a noob problem im sure but whenever I have a child of a physics object be a non-physics object, for some reason the parent physics object acts as if it has no gravity and isnt effected by forces.

oh I figured it out. I was using a physics contraint component and I didnt realize it works both ways :P

[odd roost]

Good form is letting us know if anything helped

[night scarab]

what about some help here

[faint pasture]

For a rhythm game the source of beats and other data should be a struct

like, the definition of a song would be a struct with the audio file, BPM, and a bunch of beats or other events at certain times. Sorta like MIDI

[night scarab]

ok I see what your saying

[faint pasture]

I think either way you'll need a SongTrackEditor, either in-game with an editor utility or out of game

[flint vector]

how can i make the character shake while still doing other animations?

[night scarab]

ok that makes so much more sense

thanks for the help I'm gonna try that out when I can

[faint pasture]

additive animation

[flint vector]

so use aim offset?

[odd roost]

What do mean by shake? You can try adding impulses to the character during the animation

[haughty wing]

a helpful human. Scary

[flint vector]

i mean like a constant shaking

[odd roost]

Like he's having a seizure but a normal walk animation is playing?

I'm not that great at animations, but I'm guessing this is something other than the player character right? Otherwise you could fake it with a camera shake

[flint vector]

yea

[odd roost]

I would investigate what Adriel suggested

[flint vector]

but it is the player character

[odd roost]

have you tried faking it with a camera shake? Obviously that wouldn't be a solution if he shook all the time, would make the player sick.

[flint vector]

no i haven't tried that

[odd roost]

worth a shot, you can tweak them quite a bit

[flint vector]

how would i make that constant though?

[odd roost]

could give this a go and try and adjust it for your needs

https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/constant-camera-shake-with-varying-intensities/83066/2

[flint vector]

that might work

i'll probably figure out how to do it with animations later though so it doesn't make the player sick

[odd roost]

It all depends on the player I guess. If there is never a break in the shaking I personally probably wouldn't be able to last an hour. But I'm an old ass man.

[flint vector]

nah i'm trying to recreate the flash's phasing

so it wouldn't be all the time

[zealous moth]

@flint vector when you say shake, how hard is the character shaking? like he was cold?

if that is the case you can just use a material function to simulate it

[odd roost]

that's a good idea also

[flint vector]

like the flash phasing

best gif i could find

[odd roost]

Might be able to use post process volume also

[zealous moth]

well the post process applies the material itself to a volume. Might as well apply it as a function to the material of the character

and that's reverse flash, not flash

[flint vector]

again best gif i could find

[odd roost]

The post process will apply to all material though right?

[zealous moth]

well depends how you set up the volume itself

[odd roost]

Like every actor in the scene

[zealous moth]

but yeah

what you may want is a gaussian blur or just a blur material function

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ccBjlAFt0s

[flint vector]

that would probably be easier

[odd roost]

https://tenor.com/view/reaction-victory-entourage-winning-success-gif-5410487

[flint vector]

just apply a blur material to the character right?

[odd roost]

well done Zanet

[zealous moth]

take the material your character has and add the blur to it

otherwise you can use stencils to apply it when needed

I'd just use lerp alpha as means to go from blur to no blur

[lone needle]

Hey some guys already uses this : https://github.com/rdeioris/LuaMachine ?

[twilit mantle]

hey is it possible to change the "pawn control rotation" for a camera manager? I want a true first person but I'm using the ALSIV and that use a Camera Manager

[zealous moth]

Hah I can only guess what the issue is with ALS. You can but you will have to overwrite several layers. I did it once and it was painful.

[twilit mantle]

I'll try just to align the shoot with the center of the camera, but I need to clamp the rotation for just like 10 angle degrees

[flint vector]

waaaa

why does the M_Male_Body material have no pins

[trim matrix]

Hey Real quick does anyone know a simple way to disable char movement when attacking and re enableing it when the attack is done

[odd roost]

Just get a ref to the character movement component and disable movement, them set movement mode to walking when done

[odd roost]

What does that mean

[trim matrix]

Ok thank you @odd roost

How do I get a ref to char movement im kinda new

[odd roost]

I’ll give you a screen shot in a sec

Where do you want to call this action?

[trim matrix]

ok And in Third person char bP if possible if not then the animBP is ok

[flint vector]

this is what it looks like

[trim matrix]

Here is my combo for if you need an idea of where i can put it

[flint vector]

theres only one pin

[odd roost]

this is a function that I have on my character that I call

you can ignore the Mouse Rotation part

[trim matrix]

Ok thank you

[odd roost]

what pin do you need it to have? I'm not great with materials

[flint vector]

emissive color

[trim matrix]

Ok I just made these functions and Excluded the mouse rot Cause I want to Keep Mouse rot During the Combo Now where do I plug these In I want the Movement to stop when start of attack and enable at end of attack

[odd roost]

before your montage plays, and after it ends

[trim matrix]

k

[odd roost]

the Mouse Rot is custom

[trim matrix]

oh ok

[odd roost]

Yeah I don't know how to get the result node

[dawn gazelle]

Seems like it may be a material function rather than a material?

[trim matrix]

@odd roost I did it thank you bro

your method worked

[odd roost]

awesome!

[flint vector]

so i can't get the result node?

[odd roost]

Probably, but I don't know how. I stand on the shoulders of giants when dealing with materials. Can't do much myself

you can create your own material with an emissive

[trim matrix]

Hey CveeDub are you willing to like walk me through a part of my game like Ill just text in here and youll just tell me how I have a lot of things i need to do if not its ok tho

[dawn gazelle]

Uncheck the "use material attributes" checkbox

[odd roost]

I'm pretty drunk, dude. But you can put it up. Datura is the man so if he knows what you need he will chime in.

[trim matrix]

Ok lol thanks dont do nun stupid while your drunk

[odd roost]

haha I freaking knew it was a simple check box

[odd roost]

Nah man, if I don't know how to do something I'll be the first to admit it

[flint vector]

and this is why i always ask you guys for things like this

now to figure out where everything goes...

[trim matrix]

Ok I have no Ai but I want to put a health bar that can make my char take damage anyone know how?

[odd roost]

Like on the HUD?

[trim matrix]

Ye

[odd roost]

Like this?

So you need to have a health value on your character first

[trim matrix]

Ok imma make that variables rn

In anim bp

or third person bp

[odd roost]

Then you need to make a Widget Blueprint, W_HUD or something

[trim matrix]

ok

[odd roost]

Then you need to add it view port on begin play

I'll show you a trick though. In your widget blueprint create a variable for you character, set it to instance editable and expose on spawn

[trim matrix]

Ok

And In the widget do I add a health bar

[odd roost]

That way when you add it you can set the refence to the player

Will never have to cast in your HUD

[trim matrix]

Ok

[odd roost]

Ignore all the crap in there other than the player ref

[trim matrix]

ok

[odd roost]

In the widget blue print

Your variable type will be different, what ever your player character is called

[trim matrix]

Ok

[odd roost]

Thirdperson_BP of something

[trim matrix]

Ok

[odd roost]

In your widget drag this onto your palette

[trim matrix]

ok done that

[odd roost]

make sure this is set to true

[trim matrix]

ok

[odd roost]

click this

[trim matrix]

Clicked it

[odd roost]

click this and name it UpdateHealth

[trim matrix]

I dont have a funcions tab to the left

here hold on

[trim matrix]

oh ok

[odd roost]

then we need to do this

[trim matrix]

Ok give me a sec to do that

[odd roost]

the reason we do current and max is because it gives you the ability to set the players max health as something other than 100%, but the bar will display it properly as a percentage

like a perk that gives the player 110% max health

[trim matrix]

Yeah and also Is the Player ref variable type a character?

[odd roost]

yeah, you set that in the HUD, instance editable and Expose on Spawn

[trim matrix]

ok

[odd roost]

Then when you add it to viewport you can set the reference to the play straight away

some people will say to cast in the HUD and Bind the progress bar but you do not have to do that at all

[trim matrix]

ok

[odd roost]

wasted processing power imo

remember this

[trim matrix]

Oh yea ok

[odd roost]

When you create the widget the Player Ref will be there for you set with the player character

which is Thirsperson_BP or whatevever you are using

let me know when you're ready for the next step

[trim matrix]

Ok

[flint vector]

why don't you guys get into a vc or smt

[odd roost]

okay, now we need to call all this crap lol

because my sleeping family doesn't want to hear it. You can DM me though so we don't clog up the channel

[trim matrix]

ok

[charred latch]

sorry i am pretty new, I am having a hard time understanding how to create variable booleans for statemachines

i specifically want to add a boolean value to "if throwing" but i cant concept how to do it at all

https://gyazo.com/b39cb2c43a0906f191a1e54ce3f8e1f7

is that not as simple as it can be or am i just not understanding

[charred latch]

Yes

i was trying to use it as a true false to play the animation or go back to idle

is that the correct way?

i do have it checked now, and it isnt working still.

https://gyazo.com/26d860998687aec93a59eb092843f101\

thats the statement in my animgraph

The logic is basically all new to me, im learning from scratch with only a background in python so it is a bit confusing

https://gyazo.com/6f7d5ef191f6a659b071f2d210d976de

this is where i got stuck

I dont understand how to make the "blue" to "red" like you do

[surreal peak]

Does python not have classes, instances and booleans?

[charred latch]

oh i am silly i did get the wrong variable that time

https://gyazo.com/4b3baab86e4f1ef53dcfa2c352e6c14d

so i have that base done now

so i am atleast getting that value now, but i also NOW dont know how to connect this to right click, because this was supposed to be in animation correct?

[surreal peak]

The stuff should be in the AnimBP, yes. And is usually queried per frame.
The boolean you are retrieving with this is from your character which is set via the pressed event

Also the get PlayerCharacter node is not entirely correct here. DSA, there are get PawnOwner nodes in the AnimBP for this.
If they place that code into any other AnimBP it will only work if the Player presses the key. So e.g. An AI would fail

Online would also fail as that would return each local character and not the one that uses the AnimBP

[charred latch]

Why can i not make a blend like you did here?

oh i might kno whwy

well i am in a transition right now

that might be a reason this is all not working also right?

I wanted to do a simple transition and the blend pose is a state right?

[surreal peak]

Very simply yes. GetPlayerCharacter is a static getter to get the current controlled Character. It's only relative, multiplayer wise, for who calls it. If Client 1 calls it it will be Client 1s Character etc.
TryGetPawnOwner is relative to the AnimBP. It will always get the Pawn that uses the AnimBP instance. Similar to callimg GetControlled Pawn on a Controller, or get Controller on a Pawn. Etc.

[charred latch]

https://gyazo.com/44018e90ddb6ef482c77d5ff54fae785

Now I just need to finish the exec on the set

[surreal peak]

That won't work

The AnimGraph and the EventGraph of the AnimBP need to stay apart

The AnimBP has an EventGraph where you have to place the code to get the booleab

And then you use the AnimBP version of the booleab in the AnimGraph

DAS, show him the whole proper setup. He doesn't seem to know where to place the nodes

I'm on my phone and don't have the engine in reach

[charred latch]

hey thank you two, i appreciate it

[surreal peak]

Also, you want this for a transition into another anim state, right?

Not for like a one-off animation?

[charred latch]

well i was thinking that it would be a transition from idel to thrown

so I thought it would be easy to just make a bool value for that to simply play the anim

but I obviously dont have the knwoledge here

[surreal peak]

Is that a one off anim, like a throw animation? Similar to a punch anim? With a fixed duration or can the player hold the button and the thrown state remains until key is released?

[charred latch]

Yes basically

[surreal peak]

"Yes" to what exactly?

😋

[charred latch]

SORRY i have a friend im also asking about simple logic, I just want to press right click and have the animation fire off.

I figured that it would be simple to do, I had it in even the character blueprint, but it locked it out of all other anims so I tried to learn animbps better

[surreal peak]

Alright. So fwiw you can do that by playing a so called AnimationMontage in your Character BP. They basically overlay the whole AnimState and can be limited to specific bones so to only affect the upper body etc. Also complex to get into and setup but most likely what you need

Give him a minimal setup. Additional code just confuses

Also the part where they need to call the TryGetPawnOwner hehe

I do think they need a Montage here though. But at the level of their knowledge this could take a while to teach

[charred latch]

^

thats exactly what i am thinking

if you guys could even point me on where to learn, I love learning off videos, I just thought i had a simple idea missing LOL

I really do appreciate it ❤️

[high phoenix]

its not playing the montage

[ancient topaz]

Friends, help me with advice, how to make to in game was not possible to call debug console ue4?

[high phoenix]

waht

[dusky harness]

How can i remove and spawn widget components? With the entire widget i can just use Add to viewport and Remove from Parent but with the components i can only remove them. Add to viewport node has the different reference type. How can i spawn back my widget component?

[maiden wadi]

@dusky harness You'll make a widget component the same way you make any other actor component. It gets created on the actor that holds it. Usually with widget components you don't really spawn and remove them. You might consider collapsing the widget in the component, or changing it, but if you're constantly using the component, don't bother destroying and respawning it.

[trim matrix]

Did they remove this node? I can't find it.. https://docs.unrealengine.com/en-US/BlueprintAPI/UserInterface/Animation/PlayAnimationwithFinishedevent/index.html

[torn kettle]

:triangular_flag_on_post: wwyn#1480 received strike 1. As a result, they were muted for 10 minutes.

[wheat crater]

I followed a static camera tutorial a while ago, similar to re1. The problem is it was all done in the level blueprint, and I've tried migrating it over to the camera's own blueprint instead (Just far more convenient). I want it so that whenever the player is within a certain distance to a camera, it changes to that one, but somewhere my logic is flawed

[round merlin]

are there better ways of handling automatic fire? i am doing this right now but i dont really like it

as it stands right now, if i were to change the fire rate var while the players held down the input, the Timer wouldn't actually change untill the players would release the key

[worthy frost]

timer is the best way

i mean sure you can do it on tick if your fire rate changes all the time 🤷

[round merlin]

its not that it changes per se, but i want to have a flexible enough code, that way i dont have to rewrite it countless of times. say down the line i add a pickup that boosts attack speed. maybe an enemy slows you down

you get the point

[worthy frost]

right but that is down to your system

we fire into our weapons when its ROF changes, and adjust the firing timer

this is done when the RateOfFire Attribute changes

[past wyvern]

Dumb question but is there a keyboard shortcut to compile inside bp graph editor?

Tried googling and it was not my friend

[maiden wadi]

@wheat crater How is the logic flawed? What is going wrong?

@past wyvern F7

[wheat crater]

Might not be a logic error, but it's not switching

That was my best attempt with my limited knowledge, someone who knows more might have a solution that works

[maiden wadi]

@wheat crater Only two gates stop it from switching cameras. One is distance, the other is that TracksPlayer? boolean. What is setting that boolean?

[wheat crater]

Its just a variable I can switch on and off if I want the camera to stay static or track the player

It most likely has nothing to do with the actual switching of cameras

[maiden wadi]

Is it set to true?

If it's true, then you need to check your Distance check. Do something like a print before the distance branch and print off the distance to see if it's what you expect. If it is, then you might not have set your ChangeDist correctly.

[past wyvern]

thanks!

[wheat crater]

Cheers Authaer, I had them set too low

unfortunately I don't know a way of actually seeing the range. I tried using a collision sphere to guage but again, that threw my measurements off

[formal wren]

How can I debug blueprints in a cooked game?

[twilit heath]

you can't, you can only print into logs

[noble bear]

Guys i am getting this error while saving the blueprint class why?

[twilit heath]

most likely 2 editors running

or editor + crash reporter

[noble bear]

How to solve it bro

[twilit heath]

close the other one

[noble bear]

Only one edito is open

[formal wren]

This sucks :/ But I guess I could let UE4 convert BP to cpp on packaging and then debug the cpp in VS

[twilit heath]

nativized code isn't really human readable, so good luck with that

[formal wren]

shite

😄

[void cobalt]

hey does anyone know why i get these errors and how to fix them?

the first one appears when i launch the game (which launches a menu in a different level)
and after "server logged in" and "play in editor" is when i press play on the menu, and it launches the actual game
nothing really breaks in the game, it seems to work completely fine
its just that an error is still an error right?

[maiden wadi]

Where are you calling them? It looks like you're giving them an invalid player controller.

[void cobalt]

hm ok

in the level bp for my menu

i plugged the get player controller into player controller on that last node

and now i dont get the errors

but, when i press play on my game i cant move

weird

now i did the same thing in my game level

and now i can move, and shoot, but only once

after i left click to shoot once, it doesnt let me shoot again

[maiden wadi]

Can you still move?

[void cobalt]

yeah

just cant shoot

ok, even weirder now

[maiden wadi]

You might want to put prints on your inputs. Make sure they're still runing.

[void cobalt]

if i spam click, sometimes it shoots

but not everytime

ill try that

[maiden wadi]

You might want to go through your logic from input to firing. That doesn't sound like an input problem.

[void cobalt]

ok so

it doesnt read my start firing

the first time i shoot its completely fine

but after that it only sometimes shoots when i left click

but it reads the stop firing everytime

oooooo

ok so it only shoots after i double click

[maiden wadi]

If it never prints Start Firing, then you have something else calling shooting logic.

[void cobalt]

its like the first click calls something else, and the second click calls the weapon firing

and it keeps going back and forth like that

is there a way to find out what left click would be calling?

any debugging tool?

[maiden wadi]

Nothing I directly know of. You should go to any actors that may have input enabled, which use that same input action and disable ConsumeInput on the event.

[void cobalt]

hm ok

[maiden wadi]

I've never experienced alternating behavior like that. It either doesn't get it or it does. The only reason I know of for that, is if you're disabling input for this actor somewhere, and then enabling it somewhere else.

[void cobalt]

do u think it could be because im using the same player controller for the menu AND the game?

or does that not affect anything?

oh wow just noticed that none of the enmies are following me either

they cant move

[maiden wadi]

It's not likely that using the same controller is an issue.

[void cobalt]

i see

[tawdry ore]

is there a node for stopping an event midway through

[worthy frost]

@tawdry ore no but if you need to stop then you should know why to stop

normal via a branch or something that does nothing

[tawdry ore]

i want to check if theres input during a delay period and repeat the event if there is

but the delay is in the middle of the event

[faint pasture]

I want to have a seamless transition from main menu to gameplay. Would it be better to have a pawn that's just a camera out in the world or have no default pawn and just have the controller use a camera actor as a view target? Has anybody here done this?

For clarity, I want the flow to go like this.
Startup: you see a zoomed out view of the map and main menu.
Hit play button: Spawn the pawn, view target blend and possess.

[wise plinth]

Going through UE4 course. Teacher sets Only Owner See checkbox for FPArms Skeletal Mesh Component(it was already set by default):

Then when he depossesses the character, he doesn't see the FPArms Skeletal Mesh Component, as expected:

He's on UE4.13.2

I do the same:

But when I deposses, I see FPArms:

I'm on UE4.26.2

Any ideas why?

[dark crow]

Cause you depossessed in engine like that it may still be visibile, if you possess another character tho they should not be visibile

I think you still technically are the owner

[wise plinth]

I can see enemies' FPArms, too:

Or no, I actually don't

Only when I deposses, I see them all(there are additional arms on enemies, too):

[maiden wadi]

It's very likely just a debugging feature. Unless it happens when you're running in a new PIE window, or in Standalone mode, then it's not an issue.

[wise plinth]

I guess I'll continue with the course and see if I can still see FPArms when we switch to the other, third person camera

[dark crow]

Is it a GameDevTV course?

[wise plinth]

Yes

[dark crow]

This may answer then

https://community.gamedev.tv/t/only-owner-see-not-working/32798

On their side it shows too, just not obvious from the camera angle

[maiden wadi]

In general. Don't worry about odd things unless you can see them in a standard gameplay manner. Players aren't supposed to depossess pawns and fly around to see everything.

[wise plinth]

Thanks, it might be the angle at which he was looking at the model so it wasn't visible at that point in the video

Yeah, I took a second look and he does see FPArms of enemies, too, when he depossesses his character

[turbid magnet]

Hello guys! Does someone know a solution for interaction system? I want to make bp_actor that player can interact with by holding E key for a time, or just tapping. I'm making a game where you need to move object from one place to another, by bringing them in your hands over the head. You just holding E key on a object to pick up and tapping E to throw the object. I tried various system, but neither of it worked properly, i'm always finding unfixable bugs :c

[runic parrot]

interface should work ok

[turbid magnet]

Yeap, i did one through interfaces, but still had some weird bugs

[maiden wadi]

On E pressed, if HeldObject == valid, throw object. If != valid, line trace to see if an object is in the player's view, if so, start a timeline that updates UI. At the end of the timeline, if the object is still in view, set it as held object and attach it to player.

Maybe on each timeline update do another trace and see if the object is still in view, if not, stop the timeline.

[runic parrot]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_vbTysA_KUo&t=115s

that's what you want

[turbid magnet]

That was my first system, but i thought for some reason that timelines are really ram and cpu consuming, is it?

[runic parrot]

you are gonna need to hange it a little bit so it works with "interact" but it's pretty much the same

[wise plinth]

In gamedev course they did just what you describe:
https://github.com/UnrealCourse/03_BuildingEscape

that's a working project

or you can do the course following videos

[maiden wadi]

Timelines are just prettied up tick gates. There's nothing inherently RAM or CPU consuming about them.

[trim matrix]

Hello, I create a PC with a widget, everything works well but after several weeks of development the computer decided not to work anymore, as you can see a part of the PC is not clickable no idea why, even with all the possible debugs I can't find a solution, anyone to help me? (ping me please)
https://i.imgur.com/H7qGW0q.mp4

[turbid magnet]

ooh, sweet, I'll check it out rn

[turbid magnet]

Oh okay, thank you a lot guys!

[maiden wadi]

@turbid magnet You're going to hear a lot that tick is a terrible demon that should be avoided at any and all costs. You should generally use it carefully, but it shouldn't be avoided so much as used correctly. It's worth pointing out that even in a single player game, the engine constantly checks on tick, whether it should split the screen for a second player.

[turbid magnet]

Yeah, it's like walking on thin ice

[maiden wadi]

@trim matrix Looks like there's something blocking the hit test of the button. The widget's cursor is still moving, so presumably the mouse is still registering on the widget. You're certain that widget doesn't have some sort of hit testable panel or something over the unclickable area?

@turbid magnet Nah. Seriously speaking, don't stress about performance unless you want to teach yourself or your target platform is a Mobile device. You will never get anything done if you're constantly looking for the best solution. The best code, is code that is easily readable and followable if you ever have to come back and change it, and it works. Performance is a secondary factor for once stuff is working and you're ready to start polishing.

[turbid magnet]

I got you, thank you for explanations, I'll do my best! I am just a perfectionist and I always trying to get rid of this annoying feelings when I'm making something, thank you again!

[trim matrix]

The cursor is not waiting, it's just a test, no idea why there is the non clickable area

[maiden wadi]

I know that feeling. Don't get me wrong. Event driven is the best way for most things. But in your case you want the player to look at the object and hold a button to pick it up. Have to update often to make sure they're still looking at it.

[wise plinth]

Well, it depends. I think you should always do your best.
Game devs, especially, lately, took the advice from leading programmers "Don't optimize for performance" to the heart and too seriously. That's how we get Witcher 3 and Cyberpunk and many other games with unacceptable performance.
Also this: https://youtu.be/SVRiktFlWxI?t=20982

Half the games on Steam now basically "Lmao it's alpha deal with it"

[maiden wadi]

You can get the same thing on Tick with some logic, but timelines will be more readable. I mean even in C++ I'd personally probably make a component that enables and disables it's tick based on inputs and use that for the logic.

[earnest tangle]

Coding a Better World Together - Uncle Bob
Oh boy, not sure if Uncle Bob goes together with making a better world unless he's recently realized he's been a bit of a jerk lol

[wise plinth]

How?

He has good lectures

Good jokes

And good books

[earnest tangle]

Sexism and stuff, I don't really recall the specifics but it's just the usual

[maiden wadi]

Quite honestly, I'm not sure how I feel about the idea of comparing someone's personal project to that of larger development company. Performance dies for a lot of reasons, and we're currently talking about CPU bound small scopes here.

I haven't played either of those games, but I'm aware of Cyberpunk's terrible performance. Also aware that it was in development for nine some years.

Nine years is a long time for the one derp on the team to be throwing hard pointers around to assets that don't need to be loaded, or for the UI designer to bind to EVERYTHING in the fucking game to be updated while it's not even in use.

[earnest tangle]

The problem is that a lot of programmers tend to easily gravitate to the extremes :D

If you tell them to optimize perf, they'll spend all the time in pointless micro optimizations

(okay maybe it's a bit of an exaggeration, but you do see this a bit here and there)

I think the best example is the fear of On Tick to the point that people will rather use a timer at a short interval to effectively emulate On Tick because they've been told "on tick bad"

[faint pasture]

You just need to think about it. Does it, by definition, have to update on every frame? If so, a tick is involved somewhere.

[dark crow]

Thing is, 100 fps means 100 calls a second

Timer that loops every 0,01 seconds would be equivalent to 100 runs a second?

[earnest tangle]

Only if the framerate is high enough for that to happen

It might skip if the framerate drops

[maiden wadi]

Actually a 0.01 timer is more harmful.

[faint pasture]

If you find your time or getting anywhere close to your frame time, just use a damn tick. It'll probably perform better since you won't get aliasing

Or not perform, but actually look better

[dark crow]

It would run 100 times at 60 fps too in that case

I can see why

[maiden wadi]

0.01 timer on a machine that is running at 50FPS will run the timer code twice per frame.

[earnest tangle]

Does it actually do that? I thought I read somewhere it wouldn't

[supple dome]

its does but its incredibly unreliable, theres even a comment in the code saying its kinda bugged

[earnest tangle]

Ah

Yeah I can imagine

[faint pasture]

Like say you had a 60 FPS game and a 50 HZ timer, you would have almost the performance cost of a 60 HZ timer, but you would have some frames with one update per frame and some frames with no update per frame. It would look janky as all hell

[turbid magnet]

Unreal has fixed frame rate feature for physics based mechanics, such as a racing car

[maiden wadi]

I mean in the end it's just something else being ticked, that counts down a timer and calls a function if it's <=0

[turbid magnet]

so even if your fps is 30, physics will be calculated at 120 ticks per second, for example

[faint pasture]

That's on a separate update though, or maybe even a separate thread. You can't directly reach into it with game code

[turbid magnet]

Actually you can through c++ as far as i know, I used one plugin to implement this second thread into blueprint, don't remember how plugin names, but it's pretty sick stuff

Ah yes, new Chaos Vehicle in last version of UE using second thread calculations, so this vehicles is frame rate independent, which is cool

[trim matrix]

Hey guys real quick How do I stop my character from attacking when he is fallign

[turbid magnet]

Check is he on the ground or not in attacking node chain

[trim matrix]

Ok thank you

[tawdry ore]

When i use the state machine and connect two different states, the transition rule takes a long while to appear, is there a way to fix this

[trim matrix]

how do I make my isinair Var Visible in the thirdpersoncharBP or do i have to make another one

[ornate terrace]

Hello guys, i need some help, im getting this error even tho, i dont know what ive done wrong, thanks fir answering!

[last abyss]

when ur hp goes < 10 the ui gets removed, then on the next tick ur hp is still <10 so it tries to remove the ui but it can't since it doesn't exist anymore

or sorry, if its >

[ornate terrace]

ohh

so wait, do i need to get the doonce in front of the branch?

[last abyss]

you can do an 'isvalid' node of the BLOODUI reference

before you remove it from parent

[ornate terrace]

Dude, u are the best! Thank you so much

[trim matrix]

Hey How do I ad like a little movement when I attack for example in some games when you punch your char moves forward a bit

[trim matrix]

Anyone?

[vale pine]

I'm less familiar with root motion in unreal than in unity, but that's the first place I'd look:
https://docs.unrealengine.com/en-US/AnimatingObjects/SkeletalMeshAnimation/RootMotion/index.html

[trim matrix]

Ok thank you

[trim matrix]

I have 2 custom collision channels, they are both set to "block" response in my character's capsule component, the character's capsule component response type to Pawn channel is ignore, why aren't my character's capsule component blocking each other if my custom channels are set to block in the component, they are just overlapping/ignoring each other?

[maiden wadi]

@trim matrix What is the Object Type of your Capsule?

[flint vector]

is there a way to make a post process volume only apply to one object class

[round merlin]

i feel like this might be a better place to ask, rather than in #ue4-general. right now i've got this dmg logic setup but i was wondering whether it was possible to create something more efficient? maybe i am doing this all wrong 🤷‍♂️

[dawn gazelle]

That's the right way of doing it and in my own opinion looks plenty efficient.

[trim matrix]

ahh... it's pawn, thanks

[indigo bough]

Any idea why I can't click on the child actor in the world outliner?

[runic parcel]

npt sure this is the right place to ask, but is there a thing like the widgetswitcher but that just can change the images in a set box by buttons?

like an imageswitcher?

[round merlin]

i see. as for the actual firing, this is the logic. basically on event fire called, i have 2 branches that check for possible multishot, and spawn each individual projectile. would a for each loop hinder the performances or do i just use it? i feel like running loops on something the player willl do for all the time is not right

[dawn gazelle]

If you're trying to get them to fire all at the same time, then a loop is ok to use.

What you may want to consider is using an asset pool if you're going to be spawning many of them rapidly. Instead of destroying the spawned projectile when it hits a target or reaches out of bounds, you hide it, disable its collision and "store" it somewhere out of bounds and then add it to an array of "Available Projectiles". When you go to fire, instead of immediately spawning the projectiles, you check to see if there are any available in the array, if there are, you move them into position, set them as visible, enable collision, remove them from the array and send them on the way. If there are no projectiles available in the array, only then do you spawn them.

[flint vector]

is there a way to make a post process volume only apply to one object class (yes i already asked this earlier)

[round merlin]

this makes a lot of sense, i've also done this many times in unity. essentially i preload a dozens of projectiles and enable them when needed. is there something that quite literally enables and disabled the whole actor? or do i have to manually set collision and hidden? i guess i am just more wary of calling for loops constantly for the projectiles, but i feel like that will make my workspace better and let me be more flexible with potential changes

[dawn gazelle]

There isn't, but you can create some functions that enable and disable them and then call those when needed.

[sharp dew]

Does anyone know why it's not letting me get the health number (text)? It's only letting me get the progress bar

[dawn gazelle]

It's not set as a variable

[sharp dew]

Thanks!

[dense bone]

Hello, i want to clarify that i am completely new on unreal engine and i have 0 experience on creating games.
Now, here's my problem

I had a project in mind which is a simple tower defence game, like Bloons
I basically made a enemy spawner which spawns enemies that should move to a specific point, which is a Target Point. I also added a NavMesh for their floor. The issue is that, the enemies do spawn but they wont go to the Target Point. I think it's because they can't locate the Target Point, anyone that can help me out? idk what i did wrong

Enemy Spawner

Enemy

[gusty cypress]

Hi, I have have different levels using level streaming, but they load too slow (blocking in or player spawns below map) should I instead just set their visibility. I dont use level streaming to save time but instead to hide other parts of level

or will this blocking in/slowly loading not be an issue when I package the game

[maiden wadi]

@dense bone In the AI's beginplay. Do an IsValid check on the Get's return value. Print something if it's false and something else if it's true.

If it prints true. Put more prints on the AIMoveTo. See what is happening, whether it's succeeding or failing.

[mellow stump]

@dense bone In the AI Pawn area, under auto possess AI, change "Placed in World" to "Placed in World and Spawned"

[dense bone]

this fixed it, thank you very much!

[sharp dew]

Why isn't the player able to deduct health from the king? It's printing "Casting", but the king's health stays the way it is.

The values of WATK Strength and SATK Strength are both above 0

Is this the issue? Does it only set the health at the beginning and not change?

[twilit heath]

only if king has less then 0 heath to start with 😄

ah no, thats your death code

[mellow stump]

In the widget, heath will have to be bound to a function "Create Binding"

[twilit heath]

in which case, whats making you think you're not doing any damage?

[twilit heath]

umg bindings are quite terrible

a UI adequate for a MOBA game done via bindings alone

is 6-7ms

half your budget for the entire game

[sharp dew]

I did this and still no luck

Also, the king's health is 10,000

[twilit heath]

step #1

verify if its actually taking damage or not

and not by using a UI

either do a duration 0 print on Tick

or use breakpoints

if its taking damage, your UI is broken

[sharp dew]

It is taking damage

[twilit heath]

now there are several different versions why would that be

[sharp dew]

Here's what I was using to bind

[twilit heath]

UI has a reference to wrong king, you have 2 widgets ontop of one another and only the bottom one is updated, your update code is broken...

[sharp dew]

What do u mean "2 widgets on top of one another"?

And there is only 1 king

[twilit heath]

2 widgets ontop of one another (unlikely from above screenshot)

happens when you run code that creates and adds a widget twice

[sharp dew]

Well I don't think that's the case since when I removed the EventBeginPlay the widget didn't show up

Also it does seem to be binding bc the original value I put where it says "10,000" was "0" (as a placeholder)

It's just not decreasing

[twilit heath]

i don't see you injecting a reference to the King

into the BossHUD widget

and that UMG binding function is using it

[sharp dew]

What is UMG?

Also, I pretty much did the same thing here in another project, and it works in this one

[twilit heath]

that just sets the initial value

[sharp dew]

Ok, but I'm also binding it, so shouldn't it change the value here?

[dense bone]

Hello, this blueprint should make something spawn, the thing is that if i put loopining on it will repeat it infinitely. is there a way to make it repeat only for example 5 times?

[narrow kelp]

@dense bone make a variable to count

[lavish mica]

@dense bone Run your Spawn Enemy event into a ForLoop, set the last index to 4, then feed the Loop Body output into the spawn node

[gusty cypress]

I have have different levels using level streaming, but they load too slow (blocking in or player spawns below map) should I instead just set their visibility. I dont use level streaming to save time but instead to hide other parts of level
or will this blocking in/slowly loading not be an issue when I package the game

[dense bone]

thank you, this works but how can i add a delay between each spawns, i tryed adding a Delay on the Loop Body exec of the ForLoop but it just makes it stop working

[lavish mica]

@dense bone

[dense bone]

thank you very much i will try to understand it while i copy it on my own project

[lavish mica]

@dense bone
Set Timer by function name is doing the same thing as your Set Timer by Event, so you can use either. It's looping so it fires every 1s in my example image.

So, every second the following is happening:

• Check the value of the integer variable called 'Counter' is less than 5
• If less than 5, increase 'Counter' by 1, then perform the action needed (i.e. spawn your AI)
• Once 'Counter' is greater than / equal to 5, the timer gets paused so the checks are no longer happening

[sonic pine]

Hiho i have a little question about minimaps.
I have created a little Arrow about the Player to show players on minimap. i have hide the Arrow for the owner, but i cant find a way to hide the arrwo for all players so only the minimap can see the arrow.

The arrow is a material on a plane, maybe there is a better way to do that?

[vale pine]

There's no Smoothstep in BP?

[sonic pine]

smoothstep?

[vale pine]

Sorry, that was an unrelated question.

[sonic pine]

ah ok ^^

[dense bone]

thank you again, but how do i make the counter variable?

[lavish mica]

@dense bone In your blueprint, on the left, inside the My Blueprint panel, find where it says 'Variables' and press the + button next to it. Give the new variable a name (Counter in this case), then change the variable type in the details panel to Integer, and press compile.

[maiden wadi]

@sonic pine This is usually done with separate widgets in the minimap widget. Images rotated and moved around on the canvas above the minimap render, projected onto the 2d map based on their 3d world locations relative to the camera rendering the map.

[sonic pine]

@maiden wadi Hiho what do you mean exactly?

[dense bone]

uhhhhh

[sonic pine]

I have to set the arrow in the widget not in the char_BP as Material

?

[maiden wadi]

Usually. What will happen is your have your minimap widget somewhere. And you have actors register to it with their pointers. Then your minimap can tick and update it's widgets based on these actors to place them in correct locations based on where they are in the world compared to the camera rendering the map.

So instead of having an arrow on the character, it would just be an image widget in the minimap.

[lavish mica]

@dense bone drag out from the variable, the list is context sensitive so will then only let you choose less than for the integer type. I'm happy to help, but I think you need to read some of the documentation and watch some introduction to blueprint videos if you're getting stuck with things like this. Keep it up, you'll get there

[dense bone]

i will, thank you for you time and for the help ❤️

[lavish mica]

you're welcome

[sonic pine]

@maiden wadi If im moving is the arrow also moving with left and right. If im wathing a tree at the left, the arrow will look at the tree too?

Arrow and me are looking to the "?"

or is the arrow static?

[maiden wadi]

You do that via rotating the image widget in it's render transforms. For instance, if you set up your arrow so that it points to the top of the screen, that will be your 0 rotation. Anything between 0 to -180 will rotate left, and 0 to positive 180 will rotate right. 180 and -180 are both facing straight down. 0 is up. 90 is right, -90 is left. You can transform that based on the actor's current rotation and the render target camera's rotation.

[sonic pine]

ok Thank you, i will try to create that ^^

Oh second question ^^ on the minimap this will not work ^^

The mesh is still on the camera...

[maiden wadi]

I haven't done a lot of work with render components. Make sure the mesh is valid, if it is, there may be some settings regarding whether or not it's even reading from the hidden list or not.

[sonic pine]

ok thanks ^^

[trim matrix]

Can someone tell me how to disable attacking while falling I get that i need to check is falling on my movement that i made to stop movement when atttacking but i dont see that var in anything but m,y animgraph area

[maiden wadi]

If you're using a character, just get it's CMC and call IsFalling I think is the function.

[trim matrix]

https://i.imgur.com/EEiVZvm.mp4

Hi, someone can help me ?

The cursor is weird :/

[maiden wadi]

@trim matrix You need to scale by uhh... There's a library call for it. Like GetViewport...Scale?

[trim matrix]

what ?

you mean this ?

Uhh authaer it didnt work i might have not done it right

[maiden wadi]

@trim matrix Nah. Just a sec.

@trim matrix What did you do exactly? Your branch check should be CharacterMovementComponent->IsFalling->Not->Branch

True, attack. False, don't attack.

[trim matrix]

in here?

[maiden wadi]

If you attack with right mouse button, then ys.

[trim matrix]

ok

and do i branch off of doOnce?

[trim matrix]

so ? 🙂

[sonic pine]

@maiden wadi Thanks for your help, its working very fine. There is only one little thing ^^ If im starting in Multiplayer, my second Player havnt any arrow about him on the minimap ^^

only the first client will get the arrow, all the others havnt the arrow on the minimap. The minimap of Client 1 and of his own Minimap too...

Oh an other error... by 6 Clients the arrow is rotating if im running with Client 1-4 and Client 6 but ohne Client 5 is able to move with the arrow...

[manic osprey]

Yo!

I made a Damage system that a Actor (A Sword) deals damage if its collide with a Character.

The Character can pick up the Sword but the thing is if he picks Up the Weapon or collides with it while walking he takes the Damage. How do i fix that?

[sly finch]

So i have a specific question about blueprints
I extracted a blueprint from a game and i want to take a look at how it's made, just to see how the blueprint is programmed and learn from it some useful things
I copied the uasset file to an existing project that i have but it never show up
Can i really open these blueprints in my project or are they encrypted?

[last abyss]

do a branch check to see if other actor == player character ?

[manic osprey]

good point lemme try that

[flint vector]

It doesn't print anything when i run into to it. Why?

[last abyss]

check the collision settings on the box

[flint vector]

the box is a box collider wdym

[wise plinth]

Begin Overlap event isn't happening on Box Collision if it spawns the player actor and this actor already overlapping:

Any ideas why, guys?

**
**

But if I spawn my character above this actor with the Box Collision, the event fires when actor enters

[last abyss]

did you change the collision settings to block on the box collision?

[flint vector]

no its overlap all dynamic

[last abyss]

right, so it can't hit the player it can only overlap the player.

[flint vector]

oh

so i should do it on the cube instead of the collider

[stray island]

If i put (for loop) inside a functions end , will the output be completed or loop body

[twilit mantle]

hey is it possible to change the "pawn control rotation" for a camera manager? I want a true first person but I'm using the ALSIV and that use a Camera Manager

[dawn gazelle]

Depends on where you put the return node (if any). If you attach a return node somewhere on the loop body and your code reaches it, then it'll stop the function. If you have no return nodes then anything on the completed line should also be executed.

[flint vector]

i hate animations

[stray island]

I have nothing plugged to completed line and functions ends there

So if i plug the return node to completed then it wont loop outside of the function right?

[dawn gazelle]

It never would.

[stray island]

Oh

i need help with duplicating my mesh on two sides using for loop

Instead of one side

[dawn gazelle]

function bool myLoopFunction {
    for (i = 0; i<max; i++) {
        if (doSomething()) return true;
    }
    return false;
}

Use the above like an example. Your function is encapsulating the for loop. Adding a return within the for would stop the loop as you'd be returning from the function. Anything after the loop could be considered the "completed" path on a loop node. So the loop only does what it is supposed to do within the loop body, not outside of the function, but you can exit the loop if you have a return node in the loop body.

[flint vector]

how do i respawn the player?

[dawn gazelle]

Why do you need a loop to do something twice that isn't necessarily specifically in any order. (ie. -1 and 1 in your case)
If you have code already for duplicating to one side, copy that code and put it in a function with an input variable of some kind and have it do it positive or negative relative to the main mesh based on the input variable (like a boolean or even the value of where you want the object).
Then if you want to have many copies, you would do a loop and in that loop use the function you created and the offest can be the index of the loop * whatever distance you want, etc.

[flint vector]

and stop the movement while playing the death animation

[turbid magnet]

Guys who helped me with my interaction system problem... you are awesome!!! Thank you so much, all code works like a charm!!!
https://youtu.be/m-htYZMcc9k

[stray island]

@dawn gazelle thanks alot i did similar solutions and i thought i am doing wrong duplicating a function was afraid a function would for loop the other function

[tulip yoke]

hi! still having an issue in blueprints where if a client is higher (elevation-wise) than another client, they can't deal damage to them! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HsT4-Ai8ZyE

[brave citrus]

Is there a way to stop cable actors flinging around / stretching when you attach them to something before they settle?

[solemn briar]

Can I use the same blueprint for two different units? e.g. if I have an archer and I have a swordsman and they can move different ways/ave different rules but same basic fnuctions do they need their own BP?

[lone needle]

Child blueprints !

[solemn briar]

ty!

[lone needle]

np haha

[gentle urchin]

@tulip yoke have you tried tried making ur trace visible for debuging?

It would also help to see ur code for debug purposes

[finite flax]

hey so after this delay I want to check again if the player is still outside of the trigger or not, how would I go about this?

[tulip yoke]

It hits everytime, as in the video you can see that it does indeed notice the character im hitting; just never applies the damage if i'm on higher elevation. works in every other scenario. i'll try some other things

[gentle urchin]

It would suggest that you got it wrong in code imo

[solemn briar]

not sure what chto post this in but it has to do with my AI BP. I'm trying to set up a nav mesh agent for my AI auto move but nav mesh isn't showing green or red even when I press P, do I have to have the ground as a certain collision setting>?

[sonic pine]

Hiho why i dont should use "create binding"?
A lot of peapole said me not to use it but ini the multiplayer tab i get the information to create bindungs is better xD

Whats right, whats wrong? ^^

[finite flax]

does anyone know the answer for my above question?

[lone needle]

i know how you can do

Make a boolean variable "PlayerIn?"

when the player go in the triger -> PlayerIn = True

when the player go out the triger -> PlayerIn = False

add a delay after the player go

and check if PlayerIn == True

[finite flax]

hmm okay will maybe try that out

have been messing with this method but it doesn't seem to print the string

[lone needle]

sphere trace is a raycast

not the same

[finite flax]

okay so this worked, I did get some Errors after closing the game

[lone needle]

what kind of errors

[finite flax]

oh wait it actually doesnt work

[lone needle]

here is the problem

your are calling an "instance" of the player

but its not on the same node

[finite flax]

uhu

so what should I do

[lone needle]

put the player in a variable

and if its valid

use it

when you want

[finite flax]

what sort of variable would that be?

[lone needle]

or you can at begin play get player pawn -> your variable

[finite flax]

oh damn I didn't know that was a thing

ty

[lone needle]

np

[lone needle]

cast it

to bp_player

[finite flax]

like so

[lone needle]

yeah

[finite flax]

ait

[lone needle]

but dont forget the Object pin

your pawn

[finite flax]

what do you mean?

sry, I'm still a beginner

[lone needle]

np

[dusky harness]

You can also convert that to a pure cast

[lone needle]

what is pure cast ?

[finite flax]

so this?

[lone needle]

yep

[dusky harness]

The cast node without the execution wires

[finite flax]

alright so now I can use the variable to call the event, right?

[lone needle]

yes

[trim matrix]

Hey I want my character to not be able to attack whilst falling and I know to get the isinair var and all that but I dont see the isinair var in my third person character bp I need a in depth tut on how shouldnt take to long

[finite flax]

now it's spamming the reloadLevel event

[dusky harness]

The IsInAir variable is in the CharacterMovement component

[trim matrix]

Where do I find that @dusky harness

[dusky harness]

give me a sec

[trim matrix]

k

[finite flax]

nvm, got it

thanks everyone!

[lone needle]

np 🙂

[dusky harness]

@trim matrix At the top left corner in your Character blueprint there's a CharacterMovement component. Drag that on your blueprint so you can have a reference to this

Then you can just do this

[trim matrix]

oh ok imma do that rn

alr now what do i do

[dusky harness]

First i want to know what exactly you need

[trim matrix]

For my character to not be able to attack when falling/midair

[dusky harness]

I guess you need a branch with that variable before your DoOnce node

Your branch output is False

[trim matrix]

ok imma do that rn

Ok I set false to play attack what do i set true to

[dusky harness]

To nothing. This should work that way

[trim matrix]

ok imma test it

Uhh my character doesnt attack anymore

Like before I jump he attacks but after I jump he doesnt attack no more

[dusky harness]

that's weird

Can i ask why is there a DoOnce node?

[trim matrix]

Um well basically when the right mouse button is hit once It plays the anim because I dont want to just press like Q then It plays all the attacks you need to press it 3 times to play out all combos

[dusky harness]

Try putting your Branch before the DoOnce node, not after

[trim matrix]

ok

Ohh now it works thank you

[dusky harness]

Good. That's what i told you to do even in the first time

Anyway, i'm glad you made it

[trim matrix]

Thank you man

[finite flax]

hey, so I made two animations in the BPW_Hud and now I want to be able to call them from another blueprint but I have no Idea how...

how would I do that

[dusky harness]

@finite flax When you create a widget in your another blueprint you can save it as a variable and call your custom event from it

[finite flax]

what's a widget

how do I create it

[trim matrix]

In one of your folders just make a widget in bp class

[dusky harness]

How do you set up your HUD in blueprints? Can you screenshot that?

[finite flax]

that

[dusky harness]

What blueprint is this? Your character?

[finite flax]

no, that's the hud blueprint

[dusky harness]

So you need to add it to viewport of your PlayerCharacter

[finite flax]

I added it to the viewport of my topdowngamemode already

can I add it to mulitple things?

have this in my gamemode

[dusky harness]

I am not sure about that. But here is your widget, the Return Value is your variable. You can call your events from there.

[upbeat smelt]

What can I do to lerp player character's yaw so that it follows the shortest path to the target? For example, if the current yaw is 350 and target is 4, normally it would get reduced from 350 to 4. Is there a way so that it increases from 350 to 4(360+4)?

[dusky harness]

@upbeat smelt You can try a lerp from 350 to 364 in this case. But i have no idea on an absolute way to perform that

You can make a branch with 2 lerp ways. Increasing or decreasing the angle

Or maybe i do, just need to find out how to calculate that bool for the branch

Maybe the way is to compare the distance between both ways. That is your boolean

[upbeat smelt]

ok ill think about it

[dusky harness]

Try taking the current yaw minus target yaw and compare that with (360 - current yaw) + target yaw

This might actually work

[finite flax]

Why des this not work? (This is the ball blueprint)

this is the BPW_Vignette blueprint

[dusky harness]

Have you checked that the cast is true?

[finite flax]

the cast to bp_player?

yes that one works

[dusky harness]

yes

I am running out of ideas. Try checking if the variable is actually switching in the widget blueprint. Make a Print String there

[finite flax]

ok

yes the value changes

and now I found something

the vignette appears after I have been out of the trigger and go inside again

wich is very weird

[dusky harness]

Well, that makes sense

[finite flax]

OMFG

THE ANIMATION IS NOT PLUGGED IN

[dusky harness]

xD

I wanted to ask about that but thought that is how it is supposed to be

[finite flax]

lmao

now the vignette is turned on from the start tho

weird

and instead of slowly fading in, it just snaps to the final opacity value in the animation

[dusky harness]

Check the Default Value of your bool. I bet that it is turned to true. That's why it is turning from the start

[finite flax]

default is false

[dawn gazelle]

You might have an issue because you're trying to play an animation on tick. You really should not do that. If you can set the bool on the widget to true, you can just as easily call a function or event that plays the animation.

[dusky harness]

damm

[finite flax]

hmm, prolly just easier to set it to false at start of the game instead of trying to figure it out

[dusky harness]

Yea, i agree with that guy

You can make a custom event in your widget blueprint that plays the animation with your bool branch

And call it in your other blueprint

[finite flax]

isn't playanimation the function?

okay then

[dawn gazelle]

It is a node.

[finite flax]

yeah that was my first solution if you scroll way up but that didn't use to work

[dusky harness]

It is, but you can't call that from other blueprint. That's why you need custom events

[finite flax]

I'll try again

[dusky harness]

Good luck

I guess the entire UE working success is pure luck

[finite flax]

yeah now it just doesnt do anything at all...

[dawn gazelle]

No animations selected again.

[finite flax]

ignore the setting of the boolean

[finite flax]

omfg

YEEES

IT WORKS

[dusky harness]

lol

[finite flax]

thank you guys soo much

finally

imagine spending 1,5 hours on a simple animation

[dusky harness]

that's an average UE being

[finite flax]

https://tenor.com/view/the-house-will-ferrell-the-math-seems-to-check-out-gif-8225008

works

[dusky harness]

Great job mate, looks awesome

[arctic junco]

why is my water showing only if i hover mouse on toolbar button?

[sonic pine]

Hiho someone know something about EXP and LevelUpSystems?

I have created a clear function: EarnEXP Yes or No (later every Quest an Monster will give EXP into the Earn EXP variable, but now its perma Successed.

I also have a CheckEXP Event with output EarnEXP (true) and an InputAction Testkey (L) so if i press L the Variable EarnedEXP will get 10 EXP

But the CurrentEXP are only 0, normaly the CurrentEXP should grow up like 10,20,30,... if im pressing L

[dusky harness]

Are you calling the CheckEXP event somewhere? If not, put that on Tick event

[prisma iron]

can someone tell me if this looks correct for a simple teleport what is using the coordinates of the actor? because if i walk in nothing happens

[sonic pine]

@dusky harness oh no i didnt ^^

[dusky harness]

Then do it. And test that again

As i said. Put that on the Tick node

[sonic pine]

Event CheckEXP should be a TickNode?
For the tests ok, but later i want to call the function about Quests and killed Monsters

ok nice it is working ^^

[dusky harness]

Good. Glad you made it

[dusky harness]

First. Cast your Other Actor to your Player Character to make sure that the player is the one who walks into the volume. Second. Try using SetActorLocation instead of Teleport

[prisma iron]

thanks

[boreal tusk]

I have a box collider & a simple mesh.
My issue, I want my collision to trigger against the box collider.
But the collision happens against the mesh. (even when specifically using component hit on the box collider.)

[keen wedge]

Hi all, does anyone know if its possible to call a node in Blueprint to update/refresh a UI widget? (issue is here: #umg message)

[earnest tangle]

Not really sure, but if you changed the widget to require a manual render instead of having it automatically render, that could be causing it - in which case you need to call the render function on the widget (it might not be called render, but it's something like that)

actually not sure if that's an option on anything but widget components now that I think of it, so not sure if that applies to your case

[keen wedge]

Thanks for the reply. I'm utterly stuck on this one... can't quite work out what's going wrong... I'm basically updating the image used for a button but when the widget the button is on isnt currently Visible... I think that might be part of it, but not sure... the widget does "exist", its referenced via a variable... but its like when its not Visible its not updating itself...

looking at the screen shot from the reflector shows that my setting of the Style took place... but its like a redraw didnt... and doesn't when its set to visible again... really weird..

not sure what the "Widget Components" are... saw an option to Request Redraw but my widgets don't seem to be of the correct type for this..

[earnest tangle]

Maybe worth trying to update it after you toggle it visible just to see if it has any effect

yeah widget component is something you can put on an actor to display a widget in the world, so if you're using this in UI it doesn't matter :)

[keen wedge]

ahh, ok, thats makes sense, so I can stop looking at that as an option then, thanks.

My stuffs all event driven, so moving where the style gets applied is a bit of a pain but I can give that a try... it works fine when the game re-launches, the its just these "on-the-fly" changes that don't seem to work.. so the under-pinning style code is kinda ok I think... I tried Collapse instead of Hidden for the visibility but that made no difference either... its like the widget actually has to be "on-the-screen" etc..

Can't seem to find any diagrams online that indicate the "flow" of execution or anything like that for the UI stuff either, which might have helped..

[earnest tangle]

It seems like what you're doing should work as far as I can tell.. but if you can at least temporarily have it update after it's visible, it would give an idea on what could be causing it

eg. if it does update correctly after that or not

[keen wedge]

Its so frustrating,. hehe.. its basically just whether a button looks active or not when a player returns to the level select screen... all the functionality works, and really weird is that the style for the Hover and Pressed works exactly as it should, its just the Normal that is retaining the old "in-active" style...

Will give what you suggested a try... the only other thing I can think of is to have it dispose of its children on the level select and re-create them, but I was hoping to avoid that as it seems massively unnecessary..

[lament fox]

Hello everyone. I ve just began to BP. I ve a very limited knowledge about coding, lets say i ve no idea about coding. Please may you say, if me or my team decided to make a game with BP, what am able to do or not. I read many comments which say “coding is better than BP etc” but i really need to know what can i do or what cant i do with BP. For example i want to make sidescroller arpg, which will be most challenging with BP?

[keen wedge]

That's a very broad question. There are project templates within UE4 and there is a specific one for a side scroller, I have made a simple side scrolling platformer based on this template. The limitations I've experienced personally are sometimes around when there isn't a "node" for something you could do in C++, I can't think of an example off of the top of my head though. The other issue I typically experience is one of "architecture", I personally find BP quite frustrating to work with as I dont find it so obvious as written code to see what has access to what, and what shouldn't have access to what etc.

My best advice would probably be to try a few of the example projects and build a few simple mechanics around those, get a feel for it, and then go from there.

[ashen panther]

is there a way to make the tangents longer? when I click on them I can rotate them around the keyframe but not enlongate/shorten them.

[lament fox]

Hi Rob, thank you for the reply. I was using Unity for one year and used its visual scripting tool named Bolt. It was awesome but i am tired of unity. I really like the templates you mantioned and i feel these templates solve tons of work. Maybe in a side scroller i need a detailed gama manager Bp that handles the interactions between characters or something else. Please tell me if you find me crazy or optimistic.

[maiden wadi]

@trim matrix Sorry, did you ever get the mouse in the widget thing sorted out?

[keen wedge]

UE4 has a GameMode which kinda does that... it has specific objects which you can use as base-classes to create your own, PlayerController, PlayerPawn, GameMode etc etc..

You might find this useful: https://docs.unrealengine.com/en-US/Basics/UnrealEngineForUnityDevs/index.html

[meager spade]

If I have multiple actor components added through the editor is there any way to know the order of creation?

[lament fox]

Yeah. I think level BP is doing the managment the scene. This is awesome. So i need to ask if i may, what do you suggest to create states. For example player character has a overlap and when it collides with enemy, player goes into a melee state. I think this can be handle with function or macro?

I can explain my self with an example. In a combat/melle state, (side scroller game) , when the enemy is right of screen but i press left input i want to character move backwards nor turning right. I think this can be modified from the component detail. I am new plase forgive me if i ask no sence questions 🙂

[summer bolt]

If you had an actor for a item in an inventory system, how would you display a description and text for it (I don't have an inventory system just need to know how I would set up text for one)

[rich axle]

Hello friends. Git user here, that is new to Perforce and UE4 SVC... I discovered the blueprint merge tool, but it doesn't seem to work properly or I haven't figured out, how to use it correctly. I would like to apply conflict resolution on every listed conflict manually, but the only options are "Accept Source" or "Accept Target" (which is equivalent to Replace my File with Remote revision or discard remote changes) which is like not doing a merge at all. Has anyone have experience with it or knows how to use it properly? Thanks a lot!

[azure bolt]

Hey does anyone know how I can set this boolean value via get class defaults?

[torn kettle]

:triangular_flag_on_post: -----#9090 received strike 1. As a result, they were muted for 10 minutes.

[meager spade]

I mean you would have to do it inside the class's default, you don't have an instance of it so you can't really set it during runtime AFAIK

[azure bolt]

Yeah I'm trying to get the boolean value from another widget, but it says it can't write to const now

[sonic pine]

Hiho somone know the Data Table in UE?
Is the Data table a way to config EXP and levelsystem, Character Stats System, Stats per LV settings and registed Player ???

[meager spade]

Yeah it's the class's defualt, if you in theory could change it it would then be changed for the other actors default that you spawn of that class and would make a mess

[dark crow]

Data Table can't be changed at runtime, it's good for holding static Data tho, they're Read Only

[meager spade]

DataTables are great for storing "static"/const data since they are read only

[sonic pine]

Ah ok so the current exp of a Player cant be stored

[meager spade]

No

[dark crow]

SaveGame for that

Or custom DataBase

[sonic pine]

ah ok

[meager spade]

I use them mostly to create actors that I need a bunch of different instances of, ie resources

[sonic pine]

a custom Database, do you mean MYSQL on the server?

[dark crow]

You could do anything really as long as it's on server

For example i have data in JSON files that the GameMode handles

In the end it's just about it being on a permanent storage, how you do it it's up to you

If you want to dictate some static data you can always use Curve Tables for the Server to have a reference point for levels and all

https://docs.unrealengine.com/en-US/InteractiveExperiences/DataDriven/index.html

[sonic pine]

My idea was to save the Current EXP so if you earned 100 Exp by MonsterFarming or Questing the Variable CurrentEXP+EarnEXP=CurrentEXP this will be saved at a DataTable like MYSQL, if you login again your Client will ask the DataTable für your CurrentEXP and gat the 100 EXP back, and a second DataTable is looking 100EXP = LV3

I hope i can explain my idea ^^

[dark crow]

Yeah no sadly DataTable can't be written on, you just use it if you need static info

Like the ammount of exp needed to level up to a certain level

[hushed pewter]

How impactful is event tick too the overall performance. I keep being scared too use it saving it for something like an emergency situation

[dark crow]

Don't be scared to use it, test your stuff on it if you need but be mindful, if you think it needs Event Tick, then it should use it

[worthy frost]

You can look into using JSon or SaveGame @sonic pine

[hushed pewter]

Is there a different event

Like Event tick if X is happening

Outside of just using a branch.

Or is using a branch there pretty much the same

Will an enumerator help?

[dark crow]

Well if you need something to tick only when X is happening, then a bool with a branch is not that bad, but this if it really requires the tick

So to be smooth

[earnest tangle]

You can also turn tick on and off at runtime

So if you know when you need it and when you don't, you can easily just toggle it

[bitter ingot]

Is there a way to check if a vector is in a custom shape?

So I've got a rectangle like shape and want to check if the coordinate is inside the shape

[spark steppe]

there's isPointInBox for non distorted "real" 3D rectangles

[bitter ingot]

But that would only apply to box shapes right?

[spark steppe]

yes

[summer bolt]

Sorry if my question dosent make sense

[neat stream]

Hello any ideas on why would this only works on the host?

[frozen nimbus]

Hello. I'm working on a 2.5D game. My character is 2D (Made in Spine) and the cape I have is 3D with cloth physics. I'm trying to have the upper 2 corners of my cape align with 2 different points on my 2d character. I can get the locations of the 2 "bones" on my Spine2D character, but I'm struggling with updating the 2 points on the cloth physics to line up. Right now I have a simple rig with bones on the cape's corners. I think I can use Modify Bone Transform on each bone to align it with the points on my 2D character, but the cape has to be in an animation to do it (still trying to get that working). Is there an easier way to get this cape working?

[dusty oxide]

Hi, how can I change BP Spline tangents from the BP? I need sharp-ish corners but a small curve is necessary (that is why the linear type is not good for me unfortunately).
I found the "Set Tangent(s) at Spline Point" node, but I can't find a way to change tangent with it.
Does anyone have some idea what I am doing wrong?

That was the test BP for it:

Update, it kinda works, just the spline does not change its shape in the level, but the BP acts like the spline has sharp corners.
So update to my question : how can I change the spline in the viewport as well?

[worthy sun]

That box collision is connected to a gate. Is there any reason why it wont go though it ?

That interact event is binded to 'E' and works in other Bps

[dusty oxide]

I could solve it. I dropped the very same code to the Event Graph as a Custom Event and enabled the "Call in Editor" option, than I got a button in the Details and it refreshed the spline as well.

[severe geyser]

hey folks, I am trying to save my options so that when the game is opened next, the values are already saved (resolution, shadow distance, etc). I am not finding good guidance online. I've found one link that might help but it's missing some information. Hoping someone here can fill in the blanks

[timid tusk]

I see youtube devlogs and I get frustrated because I can't find a tutorial on how to make a character move in Blueprint

[severe geyser]

So, start off by creating a new Blueprint based on the SaveGame class. I'm going to call mine BP_SettingsSave. Now when you open this, all you have to do is add variables for each setting you want to save, no node work required. If using a single save for all of your settings, I recommend categorizing your variables by type. I usually do Graphics / Audio / Input / Gameplay. While you're here, you should go ahead and set default values for these variables for when the save file can't be loaded (either due to an error or fresh game install with no saved settings).

My question with this portion - inside the BP_SettingsSave, I've made my variable for Graphics, but what type of variable should it be?

and second to that, how would I set the default values?

[trim matrix]

Hey guys I already have attacking health system and stuff and I want to make an Ai that would attack me and deal damage same as me dealing damage to him anyone Kniow how to go about that

[stray island]

So

If i duplicate a hierarchical static mesh using for loop

Editing number of duplicates in editor , its smooth till like a certain number say 400 then the duplication starts to get slow

Is there a way i can continue this duplication with big numbers smoothly

The heck up happens when i drag the slider for numbers above 400 , but if i type 1000 it takes a second and get do it

[chrome rock]

Does anyone have any experience using the Importance Sample node?

I can't get it to do anything

[spice shore]

does anyone have ay idea how to cast a vairable to the hud as text?

[night scarab]

create a textbox on your HUD and click create binding , then in the function you want to cast to which ever class or actor holds your variable, get the variable, and you should just be able to drag that into the output node and a to-text will automatically be created. If you look up any HUD tutorial they will almost always show how to do it.

[spice shore]

ive got two blueprints for the vairable, one is -1 score and the other is +1 score, should i make another blueprint to combine the score

and cast from that

[night scarab]

wdym two blueprints, and you could do that as long as you can reference the blueprint from the widget graph

[spice shore]

pickup good is + point and pickup bad is - point

score would be where they would be combined and then casted from onto the hud

[night scarab]

gamemode is very easy to cast to, so if you made a score integer variable in your gamemode, and then had the pickups cast to the gamemode to increment or decrement the variable, then from your HUD you could cast to the gamemode without making any other blueprints

same would apply with the player character

[meager spade]

Dunno if anyone responded to you but I would have a base class for the items then gets stuff like description, text, icon etc from a data table. Depends on your usecase though

[heady rain]

hello. how can i make this interpolation slower? the interp speed explanation says 0 is instant, but doesn't say if i should go positive or negative for a slower transition

[spice shore]

add a delay

[heady rain]

it's helicopter control

target speed is being updated based on inputs

[night scarab]

I believe that a lower interp speed is slower

[heady rain]

and current speed is supposed to transition to it smoothly

[night scarab]

try it out though and see what you like

[heady rain]

but its almost instant right now

[night scarab]

yeah make it like 1

or .1

[heady rain]

i really dont notice any difference between 0 and 5

maybe i should use some other node?

like these?

(i dont know what these do...)

[night scarab]

it might have to do with you running in your current altitude

the closer you get the faster the interp

instead of going along a constant track

[heady rain]

as i swipe joystick left to right, it goes from -20 degrees roll to +20 degrees roll pretty much instantly

its way too fast...

[night scarab]

cause your current altitude is always changing you know what im saying?

[heady rain]

here is how i update roll of the helicopter. target rotation (rotator variable) is being updated by user input (using a joystick)

i'm using "FInterp To" node to make it feel smooth as roll is changing.. in other words i just need roll to change more slowly

it shouldnt be extremely responsive to the joystick

any ideas how i can achieve this? any help would be very appreciated

[heady rain]

i don't understand what you mean...

[summer bolt]

👍

[unique hollow]

how would I apply force to a physics object using a linetrace

[maiden wadi]

@heady rain TargetRotation is coming from an input axis I assume?

[heady rain]

yes! :)

but that part is irrelevant

what i need is to be able to update the helicopter's roll more slowly for a more smooth feel

if you can help me i would really appreciate 🙏

maybe i need a different node than "FInterp To" ?

[maiden wadi]

The only reason I could see that being instant is if you're calling it a lot in one frame. Basically all that math does is TargetFloat - CurrentFloat So.. Say you have 0 and you input 10 in your case as your max is 10 out of that clamp. It'll do 10 - 0 = 10. Then it'll do DeltaTimeInterpSpeed. So at 3, this will just multiply your deltatime by 3 and clamp it between 0-1. This multiplier gets used on the previous math return of 10. So 10 * (DeltaTimeInterpSpeed). At 60 fps and 3 InterpSpeed, that's 0.01666 * 3. So 0.05. Now the formula is 10 * 0.05. Add that remainder to your current value for current being 0 when we started, and now it's 0 + 0.5. This means that it should take 20 frames, or 0.33 seconds from 0 roll to +10

This math is all assuming you're calling that function once per tick.

Well, technically it's a little more than 0.33 seconds to full roll. Likely closer to 0.5 seconds. You lose a little bit of roll each interp because it's closer to the target.

For instance, if you break the node up into simpler blueprint functions. This is what it would look like.

[faint pasture]

@heady rain does your helicopter have a flight model or do you want it to be strictly on rails?

[heady rain]

i'm not sure what you mean

but it flies freely in air

[indigo bough]

Hey folks, trying to break down a few parts of a sailing feature.
Wind shadows are stumping me. I figure maybe it's a case of line-tracing parallel to the wind vector from the ships sails, and determining how much of the sail is in 'shadow' / not receiving wind.

However, I don't want to be tracing 10+ lines per sail every tick. Are there perhaps better ways to determine this information?

Not too worried about the wind dynamics within the shadowed area, just that the main wind 'force' is reduced when something is within a shadowed area.

And to be sure I'm not confusing anyone, it's a wind shadows, not light shadows 😛

Although, does make me wonder if a dynamic directional light following the wind direction vector could work? And then use the light value to determine wind intensity?

Seems you can't grab lighting values at world locations, so that might not work 😦

[maiden wadi]

@indigo bough To be fair. I'm not sure if you need to check it every tick. Sailing mechanics can be fairly slow, so even a few times a second would be enough I think. But you could probably largely save on those traces with one larger trace first.

[indigo bough]

Ahh nice idea, so maybe trace from the center of the sail first, once per couple seconds, and if it finds something, trace from across the surface of the sail to see how much is covered?

I guess it might be better to trace from the corners/edges, as those would be 'covered' before the center was anyway

Something to think about though, most of the time I just get blocked on the theory of these things 😄

[severe geyser]

hey folks, racking my brain. In my options menu, once the button is clicked on and selected it disappears/goes black. When I hover over the button it still shows the hover colour. Any ideas?

I don't want it do disappear or go back. I've used Set Background Colour but it doesn't seem to help

[dawn gazelle]

So I have a flying character, and when in control of it I'm using "Use Controller Rotation Pitch = true" to allow the character to orient their pitch upwards and downwards based on the direction the camera is facing (or flat if facing forward). Now when I stop flying, I want to set "Use Controller Rotation Pitch = false" to return to a more standard camera where the pitch doesn't change the character's orientation but the character does not re-orient themselves, so I'm using a "Set Actor Rotation" node with the Roll and Yaw being set based on the actor's current rotation but the pitch being set to 0.

This works great for reorienting the character properly, however, there is a brief glitchy flash on the screen when this is done, as if the camera boom is very quickly rotating to the horizon and then back as I can see some of the terrain, and the severity of the flash is dependent upon how far up or down the camera is facing, so if it's near the horizon, it's not very visible, but pointing the camera straight up, it's very visible.

I've tried messing with all the settings on the camera springarm like the lag, pawn control, inherit pitch, etc. but nothing seems to be able to alleviate the issue of the quick flash on the screen. Does anyone know of a means of rotating the full actor while keeping the camera's position in place?

[void cobalt]

could anyone help me with the launch character node?

i want an enemy to be launched in the direction from where they were hit from

but i have no idea how to do it

how could i combine the velocity AND direction in which they get hit from?

[zealous moth]

@dawn gazellea jank solution: use another camera and blend in it for a brief moment.
Otherwise you could also somehow freeze the camera transform while doing the action

[dawn gazelle]

I thought about that too.

The second camera.

[zealous moth]

@void cobalt on hit event get hit normal. Then launch at that times -1. Maybe an extra z launch of 300 for that oomph factor

[rose girder]

When i overlap with an enemy, i receive damage more than once each time. Does anybody know an easy fix to this?

[zealous moth]

@rose girder you have a double overlap. Fix that. Otherwise put a cooldown on your damage with a boolean and then turn it on/off

[void cobalt]

nvm found a fix

https://blueprintue.com/blueprint/nzbmcfo/

ironically this says the exact thing u said to do haha

[rose girder]

ok thanks

[void cobalt]

thanks anyway ❤️

[zealous moth]

Np

[river wigeon]

does anyone know why i cant open level by name anymore? only by asset reference... thats weird

[dawn gazelle]

Two different nodes?