blueprint

[odd ember]

and hit refresh

[trim matrix]

yeah

[odd ember]

if you havent

[trim matrix]

i refreshed it if thats what your gonna say ?

[odd ember]

yep

now, add a reference to self

and plug that into the dispatcher call

[trim matrix]

yep

[odd ember]

inside your spawner manager, you'll have errors too because your current event does not reflect the same parameters as your dispatcher. so delete the event, and create new event from the CreateEvent node

[trim matrix]

i have

this were you select none and then event again

??

[odd ember]

show me a screenshot

[odd ember]

delete SpawnerPelletAte

[trim matrix]

the event

[odd ember]

then in the drop down of the CreateEvent node, you'll have an option to Create matching event

[trim matrix]

i do yeah

[odd ember]

do that

name it whatever you want

even the same name should be fine

[trim matrix]

i have done that

[odd ember]

cool

[trim matrix]

I have output pin I see

[odd ember]

exactly

now we can forego the loop

because we know exactly which spawner that was triggered

[trim matrix]

so the

[odd ember]

yep

[trim matrix]

so now is should + 1 each time not 1 then 3 then another 3 etc each time pellet is collected ?

[odd ember]

correct

[trim matrix]

let's see

that worked perfect

awsome thanks. These despacter more useful then one might think

[odd ember]

they're great

[trim matrix]

are they intensive when it comes to once everything involded or are they relativly nothing to the running of the game

[odd ember]

they are somewhat expensive, but for sure cheaper than checking stuff like this on tick

the expensive part is binding them

so once they're bound it's pretty cheap

[trim matrix]

oh that fine then

the bind only happens once tbf

[odd ember]

exactly

[trim matrix]

and only when something is collected apart from that the despacter events aren't called etc

awsome well that progress for tonight haha off to bed

thanks for the help 🙂

[odd ember]

you're welcome

[fluid lance]

I need to do a weird thing: convert a bunch of static mesh actors(SMA) into a BP with a custom implementation of static mesh component(SMC). I know I can select all SMA and convert them to a BP with a bunch of SMC.

What's the best approach to then convert all components to my new component? Just do some scripting to do for each component something like delete -> add new custom smc -> set its static mesh to the deleted one? Or is there an easier/more intuitive way? (I kinda need to teach this process to someone who doesn't know how to code lol)

[odd ember]

I don't know if it's exposed to utility BP, but you could try a script that does that in utility BP

[safe narwhal]

uh, idk what to plug in target self

another person told me the skeletal mesh

but idk how to call it

[faint pasture]

Target is character. Are you calling this on a character?

[safe narwhal]

yea

[faint pasture]

Then you're good. Target defaults to self.

[safe narwhal]

im having trouble because the blueprint doesnt show the animation

[faint pasture]

Huh

Do you mean you don't see the animation playing when you call that node?

[safe narwhal]

idk if it plays it or not

[brazen merlin]

I believe the anim montage should target the anim instance

[faint pasture]

You need to integrate the montage slot in your animBP

[safe narwhal]

hmm

[faint pasture]

I think character has a wrapper.

[safe narwhal]

im kinda new with animations tbh

[faint pasture]

Show your anim BP pose graph

[safe narwhal]

ok

thats the slot i need to call right_

[brazen merlin]

you are correct, my bad

[faint pasture]

What slot does Roll play in?

[safe narwhal]

that one

called defautlslot

[faint pasture]

Are you sure that animBP is what's running on your skelmesh?

[safe narwhal]

yep

[safe narwhal]

its the thirdperosncharacter animBP

i just added the slot

and have the roll montage anim

[faint pasture]

Try get mesh, get anim instance, play montage

[faint pasture]

Skipping the character wrapper

[safe narwhal]

this_

?

it wont plug

[faint pasture]

Nah I mean call play montage on that

It'll have its own version

[safe narwhal]

hmm

nothing

i think

[faint pasture]

Are you sure your montage has animations? Just checking everything here.

[peak ore]

Hi, what I aim to do is:
On overlap if the fps character is within range of the capsule collision, then it will deal damage every 2 seconds the fps character is within range and stops attacking once fps character is not in range anymore

[proper umbra]

Hey. Whenever I use Launch Character, the character doesn't move back much at all whenever they are currently moving (Walking). Is there a simple workaround?

[proper umbra]

Why not just set In Range as true when the character overlaps the capsule?

And does it do the damage a single time (before the branch)? Or does it not go off at all

[peak ore]

it does the damage a single time

[peak ore]

i tried both still the same

[proper umbra]

ig try to select this actor as a debug object and see where the event stops, or if the End Overlap event runs.

thats what i'd do

[glass crypt]

when testing my game on a slow computer, everything falls through the floor when the game starts, but it doesn't happen on a fast computer. what's the best way to make sure this doesn't happen?

[proper umbra]

Have you tried lowering Engine Scalability?

[glass crypt]

i haven't set the ability to automatically detect it yet

but i can lower the scalability via command line

[tropic pecan]

Hey there does anybody know how to make a macro that is related to get array without integer?

[dawn gazelle]

What are you trying to get out of the array?

[brazen merlin]

so then what is being getted?

[tropic pecan]

To get character classes base on what roll in the enumeration they have. I tried adding the enumeration to the integer but it did do it.

I'm at my struggle of making a party player unit system for my JRPG and they way I'm doing it, I don't have many guides for. Must it be explain? It will be a bit complicated to explain.

[brazen merlin]

sounds like a select using your enum..

[tropic pecan]

I'm not sure how I would use select on get, it didn't work at all.

[tropic pecan]

I think I will need to explain a bit on how it works.

[brazen merlin]

uhh, trying to understand the full scheme here.... maybe explain vs how it works

[tropic pecan]

I'll try to explain the function. Just give me a moment.

So, the function I'm trying to achieve is a player party system where you should be able add or remove as well as add what their stats and others are. I'm using Map variable for the unit actor and a status data structure.

Each unit has these in their structure in the map variable.

I'm using an enumeration to sort out what roll they are in. The structure is like this.

[brazen merlin]

what kind of player party system? is it one player with their party (fire emblem)? is it like mario party?

[charred orbit]

how would one go about getting the text of a text input box widget, without using the on text changed event?

i want to have an input box, and a button. text is typed into the box, then does logic based on that text when a button is pressed

[brazen merlin]

#umg

[spark steppe]

GetText() or something on the text box widget reference should be a thing

[tropic pecan]

It is where one unit is the leader you play as and you have others following you. I'm trying to spawn them correctly with that different roll.

[brazen merlin]

there a game this is similar to?

[dawn gazelle]

Which is exactly this: #blueprint message

You spawn the class of an actor based on the enumerator.

[tropic pecan]

Persona 5 has a similar function to followers and leader. Which I'm trying to create.

[brazen merlin]

yeah so what's wrong with Datura's suggestion? not complex enough?

[dawn gazelle]

If you've already defined the class, then it's already done, you don't need an enumerator to tell you what hte class is.

[tropic pecan]

I can't give a good compatibility to it at the moment. I'll need to redo some of the connections in a different way.

[final rampart]

Today in self created problems:

Trying to manually get the bounds and center of all these components, without using GetActorBounds due to the inability to exclude components like Skeletal Meshes

[tropic pecan]

I need a way to label who in the party is the leader and make it possible to change in gameplay.

[final rampart]

The goal is to be able to have a bounding box automatically and accurately wrap around this collection of capsules

[brazen merlin]

is this for a character/creature? do you need each capsule for specific reasons? do mind doing some math?

[dawn gazelle]

Then that should be an enumerator variable that goes on your base class for your characters you're spawning. You can make it exposed on spawn/instance editable. Then you feed in the variable when you're spawning them.

[final rampart]

Yeah, I'm using this as creature collision data. The character's regular old capsule component is in its body, the rest of the capsules are added onto it.

[brazen merlin]

compatibility or comparison? it might take time to simplify but that means less error prone and less to manage in the grand scheme.

[final rampart]

I aint scared of math.

If all my animal characters were quadruped this would be pretty easy, but some will need to have their body capsules be offset from the Capsule Component, like my dinosaur template:

[tropic pecan]

I would have had to duplicate my characters if I wanted to switch them if this was ever to be converted.

[final rampart]

That's where it gets a tad more involved math-wise.

[brazen merlin]

the physics asset data might be a better place to refer to specific calculations since it also uses capsule colliders

[tropic pecan]

Give me a moment to give a related result.

[final rampart]

I've considered that, but I don't actually need the mobility or the detail of a physics asset.

The final result is intended to be an extension of how the capsule component interacts with world-static actors.

Which is pre-determined and more importantly, not affected by animation.

[brazen merlin]

hmm... well if things differ, you may need some different versions of the formula... each capsule has a half radius and a half height you can access. I suppose you can iterate through an array of these capsules, but you have one that is horizontal with others vertical.. you see where im going with this?

[final rampart]

Yeah, I see it.

It might help my matters a bit because if a capsule is rotated, it is always at angles of 90 degrees.

For Each Loop seems like the best option for me.

Getting the shape properties of each, account for any rotations and offsets from Capsule Component

Making the box I'm trying to generate fit around a body is easy enough, regardless of whether it's rotated or not.

What I'm not so sure of is how to account for the legs.

[high yew]

why is my camera spawning at the world origin and not in my character? It wont move with it or any thing

[brazen merlin]

might be able to get rotation of components for further calc, that hurts my head to think about rn

[final rampart]

I've been dealing with some fairly heavy duty stuff with movement and collision lately, heh.

[brazen merlin]

i still feel the physics system would be better for this, you dont have to use the pregenerated physics capsules..

[brazen merlin]

there's a lots of reason, but i cant read minds

[tropic pecan]

Ok, so you see in this example result. I'm making a leader and followings. I need it to be possible as I said that I need to have leadership or part member label in their structures in the map variable. Right now, Red is the one leading while the others are following. If in the game storyline that one of the characters were to change leadership, I would presume that having the one with leader will be removed from the map and the one who takes leadership gets added with the information brought in it's structure set in the map. If I edit leadership in the separate classes, then I would have had to duplicate the one's for that purpose and that can be complicated. It would be easy to mark who's roll is what in the structures in the map so that's what I'm asking for cause I have not idea of how to accomplish that function structure.

[brazen merlin]

im thinking tags are way simplier (add tag to the leader, remove it when not) and as for this information, what is it? Aside from being identified as the leader, is there any other unique information to be passed?

[tropic pecan]

A tag? Isn't enumeration the same example? How do I do that?

[brazen merlin]

tags already exist on all actors, its a name array

im not sure what you're using enumerations for exactly

[tropic pecan]

A Name array? I can't say I still don't understand I know what is a array but a name doesn't quite explain it enough.

Is is supposed to be in the structure folder as string?

[final rampart]

For things like tails, arms, and really long necks, absolutely 😄

That's where physics and accounting for animation would be appropriate to me.

I'm using the capsule pinatas as simplistic proxies for the main body.

[brazen merlin]

just saying, phsyics asset is not just for "phsyics" but also collision

[brazen merlin]

name is the data type, its like a string, the point is not that it is a list (it is, so be aware) the point is there are ways to check, add, and remove these Tags among actors

[tropic pecan]

Oh, so your talking about the name variable. I don't think we may get anything from here. It's hard to ask for something when we can't get a full grasp. I'll ask about other things later on. But thank you for trying. I'll keep some of the advice in mind.

[dawn gazelle]

Question for you - what blueprint are you using to manage your party? ie. When the leader does need to change, where are you going to do that?

[tropic pecan]

Give me a moment to check my example blueprint cause I am tracing ideas from example blueprints for ideas.

[brazen merlin]

alright, this features sounds extensive so it might take a bit to understand what it should do vs what you currently have going on

[tropic pecan]

Ok, sorry for the wait. My example blueprint of JRPG relies on a structure blueprint quest reward system to add. I'd have to look some more to get a full picture but this structure is one of the sources

[dawn gazelle]

But in what blueprint are you actually going to say who is leader or not after the units are already spawned?

Game Mode? Game State?

[tropic pecan]

The blueprint map variable that contains my party members are in a controller blueprint.

[dawn gazelle]

Ok, so you're managing your party through your player controller.
I'm assuming the spawning example you were showing above was also in the controller?

[tropic pecan]

From what I can look at, yes. The spawning function is in the player controller blueprint.

[dawn gazelle]

Is there any reason you would need a reference to which class the leader is? ie. Would you need to spawn the leader's class again?

[tropic pecan]

I'm not sure what you mean by spawning again? Like when they become leader again or change of gameplay style? Those are going to be what I'll later on add. By reference you mean, the structure to the map variable right? It helps tell the character stats, level, and items equipped. These blueprints were originally from "Turn-Based jRPG Template" from PhoenixMarket at the Unreal Engine Market. I don't know any other way of the structure for party system any better than this example work.

[scenic kindle]

is it just me or is the event tick just really broken

[static charm]

just you

[scenic kindle]

cuz it's not checking every tick

it checks once

and then never again

tell me what i do wrong

[static charm]

screenshot ur code graph and someone will help you

[scenic kindle]

i want to edit the max speed based on altitude

and it's doing the first part

but it never changes

[static charm]

what never changes?

[scenic kindle]

here lemme show u

my altitude is higher than 100000

so it should set max speed to 75000 no?

but it never changes to false

[static charm]

you can click on alltitude and turn on Watch value

so u can see it while degugging

[scenic kindle]

i have it on my screen

the altitude

[static charm]

yes but maybe it's displaying altitude from a different saved altitude and not the one in this blueprint

the Less than equals to code won't lie to you

[scenic kindle]

huh ok

lemme see

ah yes ty

in my hud

i bound the text block to the actual vector

the altitude remained at 0

i added it so it updates the altitude variable every tick and it works now

[static charm]

nice!

[dawn gazelle]

It was just a generic question relating to the class of the leader.
Let's go back to your original question....

Arrays are almost always accessed via an index - even if you do a "find" operation it's only for seeing if the item is in the array and returns its index, not the item in the array. So there is no other way to "get" something out of an array. The other issue here is that you're trying to use a class as a means of identifying if someone is the leader. A class doesn't exactly "exist" as anything in the game world. You can't get any information out of it other than whatever defaults are defined in the class. So from an array of classes, you can't determine who the leader is.

In order to "find" the leader in your array, you'd have to loop through it using a foreach loop (i'd recommend a foreach loop with break), and check each item in the array, and do a find on your "Player Units" map, and check if they have the appropriate role -> if they do, then you can store the current loop index in a variable, then you can reference your keys array and get the leader's index from that. Like below...

[tropic pecan]

I'll have to take a look at this then. I've been using Unreal Engine for over a year and don't quite know what to expect in results. Thank you very much for taking time with this, I really appreciate it.

[tawdry valley]

does anyone have a guide to multiplayer possession for clients in a listen server?

[tropic pecan]

I've tested on each unit with the leader enum and it appears to actually be working! Now I just need to get it set up to actually poses the character and select the Character blueprint class. Thanks a bunch for the information!

[silk cosmos]

#multiplayer

[tawdry valley]

huh that probably would be a good place to post it.

thanks~

[stray moat]

How would I go about creating a character creator system

I can't find a good toturial on YouTube or anywhereelse

[dawn gazelle]

Data Tables, Structures, Widgets, Materials, Meshes and a lot of logic.

It's a pretty big one and I'm working on it myself right now with no real input from anywhere... Too much to try and explain in Discord.

[icy dragon]

Yeah, character customisation is not something that YouTube tutors or Discord message can cover.

It's like the more complicated version of modular character.

[stray moat]

I get datatables and enums but idk where to start

[icy dragon]

Modular characters.

Start with just messing with the outfits.

[stray moat]

I have modular parts and the materials

[icy dragon]

Then put into account morph targets. A LOT of morph targets.

[dawn gazelle]

ALL the morph targets.

[stray moat]

Im not doing morph targets just changing clothes ,skin and thier colors

[icy dragon]

And let's not mention getting the animations to look right with varying heights.

[icy dragon]

Oh.
Should've explain how deep you want it to go.

[icy dragon]

Sounds like you're getting what you need by now.

Just the matter of switching them in BP I guess.

[stray moat]

I don't know much about blueprints been following toturial s and learning to do things on my own slowly

[dawn gazelle]

These nodes are ones you'll probably want to use to experiment with first. Add static/skeletal mesh components to your character and go nuts.

[chrome eagle]

howd you get the nice stright lines? 😮

[tropic pecan]

Hey there, your structure you gave me worked so far. It's getting late on my side but can I ask you on how I can now make a way for fellow party member units or should we text another time?

This is the structure I made from what you gave me.

I'll ask again tomorrow.

[peak ore]

Hi, i wanted to print my health in the HUD but the data/variable im trying to get is in a component how do i get it?

[silk cosmos]

cast to your player, grab their component, then grab the health

[last abyss]

its a plugin called electronic nodes

[chrome eagle]

Thank you ^^

[peak ore]

thanks!

[steady thicket]

How do I assign a reference actor in my world to my level blueprint's actor variable?

I don't know where to access the editable part of the level blueprint

[lime ridge]

Is it possible to call a Macro from a Macro Library inside an Editor Utility Widget?

[lime ridge]

You can adjust the default value, but there isn't a "details" panel in the same capacity as an actor that exists in the world outliner. But if the reference actor isn't going to change then you can just set it via the default variable value.

[tiny vale]

is this bad code? if yes can anyone point me in the right direction for this?

[steady thicket]

I can access the default variable value in the level BP, but when I do this in a UI BP widget, the default variable value can't be access

[lime ridge]

A widget doesn't live in the world by default, so it can't have default actor references to a specific level. You will most likely need to set that at runtime! Depending on what you are trying to achieve you may be able to use a different class type to store information, outside of having it as an actor inside a level.

[short galleon]

It destroys the cube but doesn’t show explosion why?

[fiery glen]

Not attached to anything?

[short galleon]

How or to what

I thought it’s attached to the thing it’s on

[tawdry mural]

then get world location and plug it in

[short galleon]

Still not working

[tawdry mural]

check if cast is not failing

[short galleon]

How do I check that

This is my second experience with blueprint

[dark crow]

Pretty sure if you destroy it, the emitter gets destroyed with it too

[tawdry mural]

oh yea because it attached

[short galleon]

Yes now it works

But it won’t destroy

How do I delay destruction

[dark crow]

Delay node?

[tawdry mural]

better google first

my guy

[short galleon]

Ok

It works now thanks

[tight schooner]

Set Lifespan

It's a node

[short galleon]

Ok thanks now I’m trying it to respawn at random location inside a room

[short galleon]

Need help again it won’t spawn

[last abyss]

anything u call after destroying the actor won't work

[short galleon]

So I can’t “revive or fix” anything after it’s destroyed?

[icy dragon]

Nope.

[short galleon]

Oh ok

[icy dragon]

Often times death state is just a state, not actually destroying the actor.

[short galleon]

Ik I have to make a destructible actor but do I have to code everything again like new class

[icy dragon]

Define "destructible actor".

[short galleon]

Idk jut in online tutorials every one is using destructible mesh

[icy dragon]

Okay, so the thing is that you don't destruct a mesh by actually destroying the actor. Think of DestroyActor as deleting the actor.

[dark crow]

APEX Destruction?

[icy dragon]

Destroying actor != destructible mesh

[short galleon]

Oh so I should just turn it invisible

[icy dragon]

What do you intent to achieve with this whole setup?

[short galleon]

I want to make a cube blowup upon contact and respawn after x seconds

[icy dragon]

Ah.
Then the way you'd do it would be to apply impulse to the destructible mesh, wait for few seconds, summon a new cube, then destroy the actor to delete itself and the debris.

[short galleon]

Oh I’ll try

[dark crow]

You could technically have a manager class for it too that keeps track, deletes then respawns, still same thing in the end

[short galleon]

It works but won’t destroy

[icy dragon]

Please use direct screenshot, not photoing the screen with your phone. I have difficulties reading those kind of images.

[short galleon]

Sorry but I don’t use discord on pc but wait a sec I’ll open it

[icy dragon]

Thank you.
Try setting the vector for the Add Impulse value.

[short galleon]

what vector? location of cube or where to spawn it

[icy dragon]

Vector for the Add Impulse node/function

[short galleon]

like this?

[keen wedge]

Hi all, I'm trying to set the Line Height Percentage for a UMG text box... its available as a property in the editor, but, unless I'm losing the plot, I cannot seem to find a node to set this in Blueprint? anyone got any ideas?

[maiden wadi]

Welcome to the shitty side of UMG. I have the same issue with setting WrapTextAt length setting at runtime. The short answer is that you need to make your own TextBlock and expose it.

[small ridge]

Hello, I have a best practice question. I come from Unity, a common occurrence there is needing a field be exposed to the outside (and potentially serialized) while being not editable by other objects. I would do this by having the field private and have a public property around it with a private setter, it make the field read only from the outside of the object's class.
What is the blueprint equivalent of this pattern ? Should I just have the variable be private (how do I change it from the editor if that is the case) and have a public getter in the BP's functions ? Or is there a more concise way ?

[keen wedge]

ooof... when you say "make your own"... you mean in C++, or, create my own Text widget that inherits from Text widget?

[maiden wadi]

You'd have to make your own. If you know any C++ the implementation is extremely easy, just annoying.

My custom RichTextblock widget is literally nothing but this. 😄 Same thing for Textblock. Just different inheritance.

[keen wedge]

Its not my strong point alas... I could probably muddle my way through... did you just open the existing RichTextBox and copy the C++ code, adding the bit you want, or did you effectively just inherit the existing one, and then add another function? Looks like the latter. Haven't really tried creating C++ scripts and dropping them in assets yet....

[maiden wadi]

The latter. Just need to inherit it and make the new function. Once you inherit the UTextBlock has a MyTextBlock that holds it's STextBlock. It's a protected variable so editable by inheritors, and the line height setting should be public on the MyTextBlock. Just need to call it from a blueprintcallable function.

[keen wedge]

Giving this a little go now... expecting to crash UE4 in a few seconds 😄 Thanks for the screenshots btw, that's really helpful... 🙂

[maiden wadi]

I'm not certain how Blueprint totally handles this. This is more common practice for C++ code to hide certain things from designers. But in theory it's the same. If you need to edit things from the editor, making the property instance editable will work. I think you can still then mark it private, and make public getter/setter functions for it. This is semi rare for most blueprint use though.

[short galleon]

need a way to turn theese 3 floats to a x,y,z location but make transform cant and make location dosent exist

[odd ember]

right click on location pin > split pin

[short galleon]

oh thanks

[keen wedge]

I think its almost there, but I have an issue with the line in the CPP where I'm trying to set the line height. In your example its the "MyRichTextBlock"... in my case, I called the class "ExtendedTextBlock", but it doesn't seem to like that?

Did I miss a step?

[short galleon]

aslo is there a way to make it spawn only on grownd? i didnt find it on google

[maiden wadi]

cpp file needs #include "Widgets/Text/STextBlock.h"

Also instead of the ExtendedTextBlock in the function it should be MyTextBlock I think.

[keen wedge]

Added, but still doesn't seem to like it...

I didn't call the class "MyTextBlock" though?

...and yet the error goes away when I change it to that? LOL

[maiden wadi]

No, the UTextBlock class has a slate widget named MyTextBlock

[keen wedge]

that's confusing..

oh i see..

oooh, so this might be good to go now then.... need to see how I implement it in the blueprint stuff now (thank you btw... this has been very cool)

[maiden wadi]

You inherit that MyTextBlock from UTextBlock, STextBlock is the actual text on screen, UTextBlock is a nice wrapper for the editor to use.

[keen wedge]

in C++ yeah? But in the editor,... do I just drag the ExtendedTextBox into the widget? I just tried, but I'm not getting access to my function?

[eager peak]

hi guys, ive set up this collision box to rise up slowly (its gonna be water that fills up a room and damages you) but as soon as i attach it to the timeline to set it moving it damages the player even if they are outside the box?

[maiden wadi]

You should be able to see it? If you added that in the widget tree, and then in the graph, get that reference and drag off of it?

[keen wedge]

Yeah, I added the new text box into my widget, set it as a variable, then in the graph, dragged the variable in, pulled out the pin and started to type "Set Line" and nothing appears?

[maiden wadi]

Oh. You don't need the UFUNCTION in the C++ file. Just in the header.

[keen wedge]

Probably not related, but I note that my "BlueprintCallable" on that defintion isn't in purple like yours?

[maiden wadi]

I dunno if that's messing with it.

That's just my custom syntax coloring in Rider most likely.

[maiden wadi]

What are you doing in your timeline?

[keen wedge]

So just this:

[maiden wadi]

That looks right.

[short galleon]

i have a cube and i want it to respawn after destruction i have respawn and then destruct but i think it destructes the respawned as well how do i make only the fisrt destruct

[keen wedge]

I clicked "Build" in VS to see if it would refresh anything... then got this error:

[maiden wadi]

Ignore the error list. Compile build errors are all that matter.

[keen wedge]

Dunno why its not working then... do I need to close/re-open UE4 or anything to refresh that class?

I renamed the parameter and built again, now have three errors... sigh...

lol

[maiden wadi]

If you're not, then always close the editor before compiling.

[eager peak]

The timeline is just a linear 0 to 1 value over 10 seconds

[maiden wadi]

@eager peakWhat applies the damage?

[eager peak]

and the vector values im setting to relative locations of other empty asset sin the bp

[keen wedge]

When you say "compiling" you mean hitting that Build button in VS right? Surely it should be error free though? In my experience with vb.net any errors prevented the code to be compiled etc.

[maiden wadi]

Yeah. But building with the editor open is called HotReloading. It tries to rebuild what it can in the editor. Unfortunately this feature has a long documented history of being terrible. In fact, check out the second pin in the C++ channel. 😄 At best, it just doesn't work. At worst, you lose weeks worth of blueprint work.

[keen wedge]

each build attempt seems to be increasing the number of errors... I cannot open the UE4 project now as it says this needs to be rebuilt/recompiled... which fails in vs...

I dont know how to resolve those errors as I dont know whats causing them ...

[tiny vale]

can anyone point me in the right direction to do something like this? (object placement in map)

[maiden wadi]

@keen wedgeWhat does it say when you hit f5?

Not the error list, but the actual build error. My assumption is likely that you need to add a build module dependancy.

[keen wedge]

it launches it little popup after a few seconds and says there would build errors and asks if I want to continue

followed by other popups "Accessibility could not be compiled. Try rebuilding from source manually" - which is what I thought I was doing in VS when I was hitting Build etc

[short galleon]

does it delete both or just original/how to make it delete only original?

[tawdry mural]

raytrace for sure

[silk cosmos]

iIt shouldnt be destroying it. You can set up print strings

to check if it still exist

[tiny vale]

thank u will try ray trace @tawdry mural @swift pewter

[short galleon]

maby i just got wrong cords i just guesed how to spawn at random location within room

[eager peak]

pulling my hair out with this, as soon as i hook it up to the timeline it will damage the player where ever, standing next to the collider wont trigger it until i walk inside which is working fine, but as soon as i add movement via timeline it just damages the player whereever

[silk cosmos]

If you want to check if it still exist, you can open your level blueprint and use get all actors of class and print the length of the array. It should never change

[short galleon]

i dont think i have a lvl blueprint its the 3person default level

[silk cosmos]

every level has a level blueprint

[short galleon]

im doing it in the cube blueprint because its happening there and i dont need to know if other exist how do i print all actors, i have get actors but it does have a out but yk like get all actors->print string

[little flame]

hi guys! super newb in blueprints, so please bear with me. Im looking to destroy a list of actors at a certain point in time, any leads on how to do that? would be cool to have som kind of BP that looked for a certain tag and destroyed anything associated with that tag

[short galleon]

it dosent print anything when i press p

[short galleon]

why isnt it working

[velvet token]

You actor probably doesn't consume input. Try the same in your player controller class

[short galleon]

but i dont want to print that. that was just a test because in my main code i need to print a array

[velvet token]

which one?

[short galleon]

now it works thanks

and how can i tp to an actor because i have a random loc generator but cant find it. its not destoryed i checked with the array

[velvet token]

what do you mean by that?

[short galleon]

i want to make a cube that explodes on contact and then respawnes in a random location within the room, it destroys but i cant find it. SO i made an array tho check how many actors are active. so i found out it respawnes, but not in my room. so i want to telleport to the new cube to find out where it is and why it isnt in the room.

[short galleon]

@velvet token

[velvet token]

I would make sure that your random spawn range is within your "room", check if it works if instead of random values you spawn it at a specific position such as 0,0,0

[short galleon]

yeah but 000 is somewher far

[velvet token]

then respawn it at the same location where you destroyed the previous one?

or hardcode a value in that you know is within your room

[short galleon]

i tried that but it respawns instantly it looks like it isnt even being destroyed like it just triggers explotion like a machinegun

[velvet token]

so then you know that just your random location is wrong

how did you get your values there?

[short galleon]

i went to 1 end of the room got the cords of my character and than to second etc

[split nova]

Is there a way to get actual final values for PostProcessSettings? I mean like a sum of all active PostProcesses.

[short galleon]

mabye because its uneven terrain and it spawnes inside

[velvet token]

Get a reference to your active camera and from that you should be able to get a post process struct - if that's what you mean?

[split nova]

I though more about sum of all PostProcesses on a level. Final value of PostProcessVolumes player can move into + PostProcessVolumes unbounded + ActiveCamera PostProcess

[tight schooner]

Get All Actors With Tag

[little flame]

@seanny thanks! I figured that out in the meantime 🙂 just another thing, im calling from level bp is this too heavy to do such thing?

also ideally it should happen at a specific time, not triggered by an action and so im using delay for that. however I have the feeling this might not be the smartest...? *scratching head

[tight schooner]

To destroy at a set time, use Set Lifespan instead of Destroy Actor

[little flame]

@tight schooner is that more efficient than delay?

[tight schooner]

It depends, lol. Generally I'd say whatever works, but there could be complications with using a delay and then calling Destroy Actor on a For Loop

As opposed to setting lifespan to do the same thing

[short galleon]

how can i check coordinates of a room most efficientley

[tight schooner]

Are they all meant to die on exactly the same frame? @little flame

[short galleon]

expample x= from 4 to 75 etc

[little flame]

@tight schooner well its not super important but yeah?

[tight schooner]

@little flame Set Lifespan is OK. There are other ways to set it up ofc. For example, instead of a manager BP seeking out and destroying a list of actors, you could have actors bind to a manager's Event Dispatcher, and when the manager calls a dispatch, the bounded actors receive the event and run their own suicide scripts independently.

Like anything, there's a half dozen ways to set it up

And it all depends on your use case, architecture, preference etc

[little flame]

@tight schooner thanks!

[tight schooner]

@little flame oh uh, if you're using Destroy Actor on a loop, you might want to use ReverseForEach instead of a regular ForEach

Cuz sometimes destroying things can resize the array while you're looping through it

[short galleon]

why dosent my hp increase by1

[earnest tangle]

Why would it?

That's a decrease node

Also you're destroying the actor so it doesn't even make any difference if you change the value in it afterwards

[short galleon]

its supposed to show hp and it spawns a new actor after

[tight schooner]

Destroy Actor should be the last node any actor executes. Doing stuff after destruction tends to throw errors

[short galleon]

it works like every time i touch a bomb -1hp

[tight schooner]

Stuff could potentially work but generally it's considered a no-no. Destroy means it's removed from play and flagged for cleanup from memory (in a separate phase called Garbage Collection, but I digress)

[earnest tangle]

The hp variable you're modifying is in bp_explosion

If you want to change the player's hp you need to access the correct actor

[short galleon]

there is only 1hp type so it dosent metter where it is its easyest to do when explosion triggers?

ok now it subtracks but 0.5sec later its 100 again

[silk cosmos]

Because you're destroying the actor

[short galleon]

still dosent work

[silk cosmos]

You're storing your hp variable in your actor and then destroying the actor.

[short galleon]

how do i make the variable independant

so it dosent destroy

do i have to make a new class?

[silk cosmos]

Store it in your player class. Or better yet make a health component and store it in there

[short galleon]

ok but how doesi it know when i thouch the bomb

[silk cosmos]

You can cast to your player character, with get player character as the object and grab the variable from the player

[short galleon]

ohhh yes i did that when i was makind a door though the dorer dosent work since u can walk right throuh it

[open walrus]

Does anyone know of a good tutorial for doing weapon traces? The sword swipes in my game are often very fast and on lower FPS systems a basic overlap or sphere trace isn't really adequate. I tried building a spline based on the tip of the weapon to hopefully get more of a curve but it wasn't very efficient.

[short galleon]

anyone knows why this prints in class bp explosion but not in this class?

does it something to do in casting ?

[open walrus]

Is Start with Tick Enabled ticked in the actor details?

[short galleon]

idk ill check but no printig works i tried to print hello when i press u but dosent

[short galleon]

yes it is

[timber knoll]

instead of a spline you can do line traces between current and last position on different points of your weapon

which would create a low poly like arc on low FPS and a more smooth curve on high FPS

[open walrus]

I tried that, I still get weird irregular shapes. Irregular enough that it can occasionally miss enemies.

[timber knoll]

there is no great solution for low FPS machines

with the exception of predefined collision at certain timings

in general, make your collision bigger than the actual weapon as well

that way you have less misses on lower FPS as well but it really depends on your needs

[lofty smelt]

idk if im at the right place here

but my firstpersoncamera has collision for some odd reason

like i spawn and i can be blocked by it

[timber knoll]

blocked by a camera? are you sure?

a camera doesn't have collision

[lofty smelt]

yea that's why im so confused

well tbh idk if its the camera

[timber knoll]

can you show some setup?

[lofty smelt]

something is blocking me

[open walrus]

Here's a visual representation of the problem I have, the black curve would be the intended arc, the green line is the actual trace, and the red circle is an enemy. So even if the enemy is right inside the danger zone, there's a small chance they can be missed.

[timber knoll]

try these viewport modes

[timber knoll]

yes im aware, the correct way to fix this would be to split up based on framerate

which would mean, depending on the frames you would add extra interval steps to take

[open walrus]

Hmm thanks, I'll take a look at that.

[timber knoll]

you will need to know where exactly those points have to be tho in that case

[lofty smelt]

idk

doesnt show anything around me

[timber knoll]

🤔

it should show you something if you are being blocked by collision...

[lofty smelt]

idk i just cant move

and when i move the firstpersoncharacter

the collision moves with it

[timber knoll]

so youre basically saying you just cant move after spawning?

have you made sure to attach player controller?

[lofty smelt]

i can move

[timber knoll]

oh okay

[lofty smelt]

but the place where i spawn

has collision

[timber knoll]

show me some setup

how do you spawn, where do you spawn etc...

[lofty smelt]

if you can join vc

that'd be nice

[timber knoll]

can you screenshare here?

[lofty smelt]

yea i've been here for a while now

[timber knoll]

aah okay last time I couldn't

[short galleon]

i need to trigger hp subtraction when bp3rdPersonCHaracter overlaps bp_expolsion

[high ocean]

@short galleonWhat is HP? You are casting to explosion from "hp"

[silk cosmos]

@short galleon store hp either in your 3rd person character or in an actor component that is then stored in your 3rd person character. Then, in your explosion BP, on overlap, cast to 3rd person character, grab the hp variable, and decrease it

[short galleon]

Ok

And I accidentally presc Ctrl - a bunch of times and my discord is super small and I can’t read any fixes?

[silk cosmos]

Do ctrl + mouse wheel up

[short galleon]

Not working

[sharp rapids]

Do Ctrl +

[short galleon]

Also tried

Also tried restarting

[sharp rapids]

Go To Settings

and Change Font Scaling in Appearance

[short galleon]

Idk it didn’t work so I reinstalled discord

its working now

[short galleon]

How do I store hp

[silk cosmos]

As a variable?

[short galleon]

Oh ok

Ohhh I thought u meant store the class hp in 3person character

[amber nova]

so me and my friend working on a project and we enable multi user editing , if i import a model from my local file will the my friend get it to inside his content browser or do i have to resend the project file

[small ridge]

The forums seem to be down right now, so I can't find this information. If you have an object of a blueprint class as input to function and you do not check "pass-by-reference", does it actually sends a copy ? Or does checking "pass by reference" gets me a pointer to the pointer that got passed in the function ?

[sharp rapids]

The later one afaik @small ridge

I might be wrong though

[short galleon]

how do i make the bomb crumble upon inpact cant find solution on internet

[winter kettle]

where is a "save game to slot" file saved?

like what path in my hard drive does it have

[sharp rapids]

@winter kettle in saved/save games folder in your project directory

[winter kettle]

thanks, I did found the info in the documentation

[dawn gazelle]

The idea of passing by reference is that it allows you to manipulate the value of variables directly without having to directly set the variable within the function (or outside of it using a return value)

[short galleon]

i have a bug. sometimes when i collide with a bomb it goes off 2 times and than i have 2 bombs respawn etc once i had 100

[brazen pike]

do you need to have that delay on the destroy? if everything else happens instantly I'd recommend removing it (unless you set collision to false in the first line)

but it would also be helpful to see the rest of the first line

[short galleon]

i need because without the delay the explotion efect stops instantly

[brazen pike]

try setting collision to false immediately upon hit

[short galleon]

ok and why isnt my force working

[brazen pike]

what are you trying to do? send everything flying from that point?

[brazen pike]

well first of all I can see on the right you are never setting the bomb location

you haven't connected up the pins

[hybrid ether]

What is wrong with this player rotation? I try to make it multiplayer and now it's working but amount of rotation is lot lower on other player's screen than mine.

[brazen pike]

Also although I've never done exactly what you're attempting here, what i'm 99% sure of is that "add force at location" isn't what you're looking for. You might get some more help by following this tutorial and editing the final result to suit your needs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTyT2XUouf4&ab_channel=TotallyUnreal

[hybrid ether]

I mean when I i'm rotating 90 degrees other player see that I have rotated about 360 degrees

[dawn gazelle]

What happens if you connect it like this (ignoring the RPC to the server)

[short galleon]

what is an impulse ? inpulse strength

[odd ember]

physical force exerted on an object

[hybrid ether]

@dawn gazelle The airplane doesn't rotate at all but gives very little forward speed as it should

[short galleon]

so the bigger it is the more ill fly away?

[brazen pike]

The higher it is, the further the target object will move in the selected direction.

[odd ember]

that's the general idea behind force yes

[hybrid ether]

This is the problem

[brazen pike]

I don't think an impulse will work very well for a bomb designed to push everything in a radius

[odd ember]

those planes are the size of sardinia

that's huge

[hybrid ether]

Those are huge

[brazen pike]

I first noticed the gigantic palm trees first

[odd ember]

towering over the nations of europe

[hybrid ether]

Its learning cities and countries for children 😄

[brazen pike]

central Italy's flora has been annihilated by the constant lack of sunlight

[odd ember]

RIP 😔

[brazen pike]

ah that's pretty cool

and capacity is with a c btw

[hybrid ether]

oh typo

ty

[dawn gazelle]

Perhaps instead of replicating just the axis value to all clients and each having them calculate the rotation, you have the server set the rotation.

[odd ember]

I think you don't necessarily need impulse for this, but just to force backwards movement as a rotation

[pine idol]

Given two intersecting road splines, how could you prodcedurally generate an intersection between the two, with curb stones? I'm looking for papers or examples of it, but the only example I found is a plugin for 4.18 with no source

[short galleon]

are these 2 locations gonna be the same?

[hybrid ether]

I really don't know what to do because I'm new at replication but I think this print is correct?

rotation isn't

[paper galleon]

This looks very similar to a project by Sebastian Lague.

[pine idol]

right?

I assumed he was making a multiplayer clone to sell. lol

[paper galleon]

Same.😅. Even the purpose they stated is very similar. An educational game for children

[dawn gazelle]

The trouble is probably here.... You're adding a local offset on every client. Depending on what values they actually got delivered (I really hope you're not RPCing reliable for these RPCs as input axis basically runs on tick) then their rotations will be different.

What you want to do is this, no RPCs needed.

Just make sure you enable Use Controller Rotation Yaw in the class settings.

[hybrid ether]

problem with add controller rotation yaw is that world is sphere. at the equator you cant rotate and under equator rotation is reversed :/

[earnest tangle]

Yeah I ran into this when working with characters that could go upside down

The builtin logic for it just won't work at all and you have to rewrite it

[pine idol]

yes, if I remember correctly, you need to use quaternions to solve the problem. I too was working on a sphere pawn and camera controller, and could never get it to work right.

even the plugins that I found that supported it.. didn't support the planet of size i was making. You'd start noticing things working incorrectly all over the planet.

[hybrid ether]

@dawn gazelleIts indeed "You're adding a local offset on every client" When I tested it: client sees client 1's rotation exactly
multiplied by 2

@dawn gazelleWhen I tried to all local rotation without replication and then add it to server but / 2 everything works. This still might not be good solution 😄

I think this is the reason. it prints 2 times hello, but it should print only one time

That's why it doubles rotation

[snow jolt]

Hi, is there a way to make sure a blueprint execute after the first person character? my blueprint seems to use the previous frame info and causes a weird "delay" effect. (im using the character position and camera rotation to calculate some stuff)

[odd ember]

I mean there is but ideally you don't want to end up in a situation with race conditions

what are you wanting to have happen?

[snow jolt]

for each frame i want to get the curent transform of the player, but if i move its feels like its using the transform of the previous frame

[odd ember]

what are you doing where you need to get the transform of the player each frame, before they have spawned? this smells bad

[snow jolt]

im trying to make portals so each frame i need to set the portal cameras to the position relative to the curent player transform. but it feels like theres a frame delay

[earnest tangle]

iirc there's a setting on actors that allows you to choose when it ticks, yours might work better if you change it to post physics

[snow jolt]

that actually helped alot, thanks!

setting it to "post update work" fixed the issue completly

[odd ember]

keep in mind that changes the tick indefinitely

ideally you shouldn't have the portals be active before player is active. you could as well just check if the player is valid, but that is equally a hacky solution

[stray moat]

Any recommended course to learn blueprinting

[drowsy peak]

I have this Enum (ColorEnum, a list with 4 colors), I use it to change the color of my box when I click on it with the player, now it loops between 4 colors but I wanted it to loop only the colors I chose in a way that I can change any instance to make it loop 1, 2, 3 or 4 colors if needed. What do I have to change for this to happen?

[woven wing]

You need to split your selection (which color am I picking?) and your effect (what to do with a selected color).

One way to do this is with a list. You could have a list of ColorEnum values as an exposed variable on the blueprint.

In the 'selection' part, you would iterate through the list, and then your 'effect' section could be very similar to what you already have.

[drowsy peak]

I'll try it now and get back

[sonic crow]

What is the best way to setup input (gamepad controller) where you need to press left trigger and then right analog stick to change the "X" and "Y" coordinates)?

[drowsy peak]

Right, but then this list contains multiple colors if I've chosen as so in the instance so how do I make it in order that it changes color, as long as it is available in that list? Because I as I see it, I am comparing a list to only one item and I don't know how to do that...

[woven wing]

Use an integer as the index.

[sonic crow]

https://www.udemy.com/course/unrealblueprint/

[woven wing]

And % it relative to the length of the list.

So every time you click, add 1 to the index, then mod it relative to the length of the list - 1, then get the color from the list at that index.

[sonic crow]

is there a resource that shows how to do this?

[stray moat]

Thanks

[icy dragon]

https://www.unrealengine.com/en-US/onlinelearning-courses

[sonic crow]

I am trying to get a particle explosion to move 3 blocks north and then two blocks east how does one get that right. i want it to move almost like a chess piece, specifically the Knight, currently the bomb is locked to the grid and the explosion is just a set number in a direction. Essentially trying to alter the particle systems direction after a specific distance

[sonic crow]

does anyone know how to modify article directions after the initial direction in blueprints?

[gentle urchin]

Sounds like something id spawn a second particle for tbh @sonic crow

[sonic crow]

that a great idea, lol completely missed it TY. 🙂 will give it a go

[wooden adder]

How to make the camera always look at the character, got the camera setup on a spline, I want it to always look at the character

[tawdry mural]

Line trace

[stray moat]

Help with character BP I have no idea how it got messed up

[gentle urchin]

This tells us litteraly nothing

[stray moat]

As you can see it doesn't spwn in my toturial map the character is under ground and in my character creator it is half stuck

Character is spawning under ground all of a sudden

[gentle urchin]

Get player char -> get actor location -> find look at rotation , in the camera bp

[stray moat]

It happens after the thumbnail for the char BP enlarged in first photo

[timber knoll]

you're giving us very vague descriptions of your problem...

also, take screenshots instead of pictures

[stray moat]

I'm on my phone

[timber knoll]

but also on computer for unreal 🤔

[stray moat]

i mostly use discord with my phone

here is the video of the problem, my character can move and walk but under the map was working fine and I could run around on the map before

[timber knoll]

have you checked the grounds collision?

[stray moat]

yes its fine

the thumbnail of my char bp enlarged after i created an actor to do customization with and the spawning issues happened

[timber knoll]

didn't you just ask for resources to learn BP?

[gentle urchin]

Also

[timber knoll]

honestly sounds to me like you might just be trying to work in a big project while you haven't started learning the basics

[gentle urchin]

If its a child , and you messed up

Just delete the child and make a new one?

[timber knoll]

if you're new to Unreal / Game dev

take small steps, don't try to run before you can walk

[random plaza]

what's an actually good dialogue system tutorial that lets you do a tree system?

ping me if you know

[gentle urchin]

Sideways tree, does that count?

[random plaza]

that works

[gentle urchin]

More like a bp branching tree

Dialogue nodes

[random plaza]

can you send me a link to it?

[gentle urchin]

2 sec

[random plaza]

i was trying to use arrays withing arrays to do it, but then i realized it was really a bad idea.

[gentle urchin]

https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/dialogue-nodes-open-source-c-4-20-4-22/120041

I used datatables for a while, but its messy to keep track of

Triee to do a editor widget for it but meh

[random plaza]

also, im making an RPG so i have unique NPCs for each tree.

[gentle urchin]

Wait

You asked for tut :(

This is a plugin :p

[random plaza]

yeah, but i'll take whatever i can get

[gentle urchin]

Worked great for me so far atleast

[stray moat]

Restarting the engine worked

[random plaza]

how do you use it? is there a tut for it?

[gentle urchin]

It mostly says there on thr page

Think there was a sample in it aswell

[random plaza]

ok, thanks

[gentle urchin]

Theres also 24 pages of documentation on the page ! @random plaza

[icy dragon]

If you don't mind plugin, check out Flow Graph plugin as well.
https://github.com/MothCocoon/FlowGraph

[icy dragon]

This one's more design agnostic, so you could use it not just for dialogues, but quests as well.

[gentle urchin]

With the one i posted also converting to bp events, supporting meta data and whatnot, are there anything obvious that makes it less friendly to quests ?

Options are good tho, by all means.

Ah nvm. Its completely different altogether :p

[sonic crow]

What is the best way to setup input (gamepad controller) where you need to press left trigger and then right analog stick to change the "X" and "Y" coordinates)?

[zealous moth]

@sonic crow use gates. Left trigger open a gate. That or branches and general input analysis

[hard charm]

guys I want to get the degree of slope of the terrain with respect to my character I would have to use the function get slope degree angles with a line trance

?

[dapper ore]

This is driving me nuts. I tried learned from a tutorial on casting. It told me if I wanted to use the "Cast To _" node I needed to make a varible reffering to the obj/class I wanted.

I made the object then linked to to my "Cast to _" node but get an error that I don't need to link my variable object to my node because they are the same but with out it, it gives me an error that it needs an object. What should I be doing?

[odd ember]

I'm not sure what this means?

like, mouse input?

with a gamepad?

[dapper ore]

I fixed my "Spanwer" typo lol. And the value is "none". So is it fine how it is? All I am trying to do is pull a bool from the Spawner Actor.

[odd ember]

it's fine as in you don't need the cast

[sonic crow]

I am trying to have a two button input on my gamepad to reach a specific outcome, I am not sure how to setup a two button rule in blueprints ie gamepad facebutton left + gamepad left triger pressed together get x result

[dapper ore]

The "spawner" is using "Is Valid" To create the bool I am trying to pull. I thought it would be best since the goal is track specific objects spawned from it through the "spawner" itself. Is there another angle of attack i should be using?🤔

[odd ember]

set a boolean value to true when you hold one button, then check for that bool when you press the other button

isValid is the closest equivalent

just use it with a branch

yeah but using macros is for losers

I have a general mistrust of macros

they have some issues with being stateful

I say that still using loops in blueprint 😔

[dapper ore]

Then I really dont get it. I need to see another tutorial on casting. Got any recommendations? I already treid the one from Aron Hunt ON youtube.

[odd ember]

it's not casting that's the issue. your variable that you created is an "empty container"

you have to "fill" it with a real value when your game runs

IsValid is just a check if you have filled it or not

[gentle urchin]

Containers(variables) are empty by default

[odd ember]

actually I found out you can get a bool on a impure cast node and it'll still work if you hook up a pure cast node and then convert it

[gentle urchin]

So the problem at hand is getting the container updated with a reference to the actor in question(spawner)

[hard charm]

I would like to know if this way serves to get the angle of inclination between 2 vectors

It is to get the degree of inclination where I am treading

[hybrid ether]

I'm still trying to make plane rotation in multiplayer correct. What I'm doing wrong? Problem: rotation of controlled plane doesn't match. player sees own plane rotating about 2x slower than it should.

This "solution" kind of work but It's not how it should be

[hard charm]

guys I already took it out thanks anyway =9

🙂

For those who want to take the inclination of the terrain in degrees, it is like this

[brazen merlin]

from the video, it looks like the left shot is still rotating when the right is not

[brazen merlin]

nice! I was going to suggest dot, but my vector math is not so confident, i get cross and dot confused, not in terms of what they do, but the result with variables

[hybrid ether]

@brazen merlinBoth are rotating but left more speed

[brazen merlin]

I also already forgot everything I learned about cos, sin, and tan from a month ago

[brazen merlin]

yeah, but there is a point where the right one stops to back up, and the left one continues turning

[dawn gazelle]

Wanted to share this here as casting is always a common topic... Any suggestions for additions or changes are welcome.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/17bEGQEC1_G5KQKAI3_ixbe4S0BIulEH5w4qS9b7fuqc/edit?usp=sharing

[brazen merlin]

ah, looking closer, i do see it stops breifly in the same regard as the right

[hybrid ether]

still weird:/

[brazen merlin]

hmm, i've never had much fun with the testing of mp, i noticed differences between PIE and standalone launching via the uproject

[hard charm]

I had a problem that with the cross product it did not return the exact value of degrees from where my pj is stepping with the dot it returns the exact value

[brazen merlin]

even if it does persist that way, it is surely confusing without reviewing all relevant input bp

[zealous moth]

would anyone have any idea on how to implement the directional movement from the metroid prime series' morph ball?
Looked into the rolling ball example project, but it uses angular acceleration to move. Additionally, it sometimes jumps in the air if you roll too fast.
The worst part arguably is the "sliding" effect since you need to cancel vectorially torque to move again...
I'm starting to think that they just used an anim graph and just animated the ball rolling while maintaining character movement.... thoughts?

[sonic crow]

How do I get to effectthe rotation by 90 degrees with a press of a button

[icy dragon]

I think you could get away with the standard third person character repurposed to be spherical character. Then you fake the rolling according to the velocity.

[odd ember]

have you tested just doing the rotation on the server and not the client? what happens then?

also I do want to mention that the #multiplayer channel exists

and you can probably get better help there

(generally speaking)

[faint rivet]

So Hey, i have a cool Idea for a Melee FPS and bought a anim Pack with 43 anims
i dont aim to use them all(yet) but how you would approach that.
Stuff I want to Anim now are Attacks from Diffrent Directions and Basic Movement

[odd ember]

anim notifies

check #animation for how to set those up. for the rest, it's either collisions or sphere traces

[hybrid ether]

@odd emberLike this or? and thanks I will ask #multiplayer

[odd ember]

yeah

[faint rivet]

ok wasnt sure becuase they are posting how anims are created and im looking for how to implement them

[sonic crow]

this might be a good starting point https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QkEifTeetUc&ab_channel=Beardgames

[hybrid ether]

@odd emberThen you cant see rotation but other player can see

[odd ember]

animation is also for technical animation

[odd ember]

then ask in #multiplayer IMO

[odd ember]

you can come back for when you've set up the logic on the animation side

[faint rivet]

im not tryin to blend anything yet, its more like on input play this and then go back for like 20 diffrent inputs

[odd ember]

animation notifies is what you should be looking for

but like I said, #animation is a better resource

[sonic crow]

what is the simplest way to change x orientation by 90 degrees each button press?

[brazen merlin]

get relative rotation + 90 deg x, but i think you may get some odd rotations in certain cases due to euler calcs

[sonic crow]

Not sure what I am doing at this point, does anyone know how to change the x orientation of my explosion by 90 degrees when pushing a button. the code work if change between 0 and 90, but i do not know how to set my gamepad to change between the two positions

[zealous moth]

@icy dragon i did that but frankly looks quite static. However you are giving me ideas

[sonic crow]

I promoted to variable, how do i force the orientation increase by 90 degrees

[final jewel]

Hello guys! Im new here. I just stumbeled upon a bug in Unreal Engine 4. Where do i submit this bug to let the Epic team know about it?

[sonic crow]

not sure why this is not working

[tawdry surge]

You need to get the original orientation and add 90 to it

With this you are setting it to 90

[sonic crow]

https://www.unrealengine.com/en-US/support/report-a-bug

[vocal elm]

can you filter an array by string or object name? trying to get all static meshes in world with "PW" in the name

[brazen merlin]

there's a "getDisplayName" node which does just what it says, then you could check for the string if it contains those letters using FindSubstring (it has case sensitivity) and then GetSubstring to compare if PW is found

[sonic crow]

i added the extra step but it still does not seem to work

[vocal elm]

thank you, I was searching for the wrong wording

[sonic crow]

still no luck

[tawdry surge]

What are trying to do?

Turn the trace shape?

[sonic crow]

here is an example

[dapper ore]

I watched a video on "creating actor references" and it helped out immensely. Thank you for the direction. It is now working as intended

[sonic crow]

if i can just change the value by a button press i can get the result i want

[brazen merlin]

I'm guessing you want to change the direction the box trace projects in, in relation to the actors forward direction. So that it points north, east, south, west. This will not achieve that

[sonic crow]

yup, that would be ideal but i am willing to settle for any form of progress

[brazen merlin]

well its not the rotation, that only rotates the box it itself (think spin it)

consider your actor forward vector call

[sonic crow]

the bomb always plants infront of my character one block away based on the direction my character is facing

[brazen merlin]

forward is +X, and right vector is +Y, multiplying those by -1 gets the opposite direction.... see where im going?

not the character, the bomb itself

for N,E,S,W it would be +X, +Y, -X, -Y

[tawdry surge]

^
and in worldspace btw

[brazen merlin]

yes, using GetForward and GetRight vectors will do this

[raw orbit]

anyone got any clue why the 'Play Animation' node can play montages but the 'Montage Play' refuses to? this is inside an animation blueprint by the way

[silk cosmos]

Have you set up your slots

[sonic crow]

I got the right vector and forward vector, I am in BP_Bomb, I assume I still need to modify the SpawnActor BP Explosions. I am not sure what to plug these two vectors in

[brazen merlin]

both should be Target is Actor

[raw orbit]

hmmm im not 100% sure about that i thought i had the basic slots

[silk cosmos]

You need to set up slots in your anim bp

Just type default slot in the animation blueprint and plug in your pose

[sonic crow]

do i plug it into the location?

[tawny hedge]

Seems like you have different target for the animation and the montage. Are they for same actor?

[raw orbit]

well yeah, play animation requests for the mesh as input while this is an animation bp

i know i dont necessarily need a 'self' reference but im just not sure why its not working, ill take a look at slots

[silk cosmos]

I'm not at my computer, but this is all you need to do

[heavy lion]

Anyone know how I would go about adding options to the world settings

[raw orbit]

ah, in the state machine, yeah found it

yeah, i got it working for now, thank you @silk cosmos

[sonic crow]

i have been stuck on this for 14 hours, feeling burnt out, does anyone have a good resource for me. for this specific problem , may it be a course that covers this , a block post etc... This should be something standard for the unreal engine

ty I will research niagara

would not work from how i understand it but will research niagara

[tawdry surge]

You almost have it. From my understanding you just need to determine the direction you want the emitter to face..

Your video, the player places it on a tile diagonal from them, so I'm not sure how your picking the direction you want it to fire

[brazen merlin]

we're talking about this, sorry for the delay

[silk cosmos]

Do you want it to spawn the direction your character is facing? You can just get your last movement input vector and make rot from x and plug that into the spawn rotation and it should rotate

[brazen merlin]

@sonic crow and since you want this to perform for each direction, we'd need a for each loop that calls the line trace for each of these directions. Therefore, you can use make array and plug each variant into the Make Array which then plugs into the for each loop

[sonic crow]

lol thanks i feel stupid, sounds obvious now, but would not of clicked if not for you. Thank you I am going to step away from unreal for 20 minutes and comeback fresh

[brazen merlin]

sure thing, if you still struggle, i may be able to get a mock up of the idea

[tawdry surge]

I mean getting working however you can first, but I'd refactor afterwards.
For each loops are awful in BP and you really only need to be tracing the direction you want.

[scenic kindle]

ayo anyone can help

destroy component for particle emitters don't work

[final cape]

i cant find input action interact in blueprint

[scenic kindle]

ignore the error

i didn't compile the blueprint

it just doesn't destroy it

[final cape]

please help

[tawdry surge]

@scenic kindle it's set to auto activate and destroy
So it should go away on it's own unless it's looping indefinitely

But destroy should work. You just gotta find the right one. I think particle emitter has it's own version of the node

[fiery swallow]

You have to create it in the project settings

Project settings -> input -> action mappings and create "interact" there

[final cape]

thanks! ❤️

[sonic crow]

Hi Conrad I went over your notes, just to be clear I am not trying to make it fire in each direction at the same time, I have managed to do that already with my cross bomb, I am trying to give the player the option to decide which direction the bomb should detonate for the line bomb variant, up, down left or right.

[rain egret]

some interesting stuff i have noticed.
so this is the mesh i made in blender, my code turns this mesh into a ship structure with panels.

but if i add material to the mesh it turns into this

its a procedual mesh btw

[sonic crow]

Just need to allow an input to alter the rotation so that I can control the direction of the line bomb in game

[silk cosmos]

Use an enum holding each direction you want and set it accordingly

[tawdry surge]

How is the player choosing the direction?

[silk cosmos]

there is no need for a for loop

when player presses some key, switch enum state to that direction

[sonic crow]

ty, the player would choose the direction by a hud option when selecting right trigger

[tawdry surge]

Id do a switch b4 an enum, but either way

[brazen merlin]

that was my confusion! you will not need a for each loop in that case

[sonic crow]

i am not sure how to get it to work in game

[tawdry surge]

Actually thinking about it a little, you wouldn't need either really.
You could define the rotation of the emitter inside the hud's widget for each direction and just pass that thru the interface or binding to wherever you're actually doing the spawning logic

[brazen merlin]

from what i now understand (hopefully this is actually right) you want to choose a direction using an input. As in, pressing "ChangeDirection" once, will change it from north to east, pressing it again will go east to south, and again from south to west, and then from west back to north? Am i on the right idea here?

and now seeing this new picture, as a correction, it would be a dpad control for each, instead of the same input

[sonic crow]

it will be a hud but to get it to work with a d-pad would be a success in itself

I cant test the hud because i have not made it yet, hence the d-pad route

[tawdry surge]

Well you have the four d-pad input events.
Off each pressed pin, set the desired rotation and then converge the execution pins to the spawn logic

Use the rotation you set for the emitter

No switches or enums or anything else required

[sonic crow]

i managed to get it working but the main objective is to get it working iwth an input

in short how do i connect the inputs to make it work accordingly

[tawdry surge]

Yeah you only need one spawn node

That depends on the input

[sonic crow]

I will make the code cleaner another time, i just need to know how to get the input working to select correctly

[brazen merlin]

instead of a switch, reference the enum and use a select, this will choose which of the enum entries to set for the rotation. This also means you only need one spawn actor node since the select plugs into that

[tawdry surge]

Your over complicating it.
You can just set the direction from the input event directly and then spawn it at the chosen rotation

[sonic crow]

whic enum are you refering to, to replace the enum switch?

[sonic crow]

honestly not trying to, justtaking on everyones advice, my code looks a lot more bloated than when i started, how do i get a button press to effect one of the 4 options

[tawdry surge]

If self learning isn't doing it for you, you should hire a tutor to get one on one help @trim matrix

[sonic crow]

oringnally i did this and i asked how do i get my input to affect the direction and now i am here

[tawdry surge]

Nah I mean literally have a rotator variable called bomb path.
Set it to your desired rotation explicitly off each of the 4 d pad events and then use that variable for the spawn node.
No matter which button you press it will have the correct rotation

[sonic crow]

i have now done so, how do i get my inputs to effect the change

[tawdry surge]

One sec I'll show you

[sonic crow]

ty

[tawdry surge]

I mean like this

short and sweet

[faint pasture]

Is giving the PlayerController a CameraComponent and using that for a detatched camera bad and hackey or alright?

[sonic crow]

Sounds cool

[brazen merlin]

you need a second camera for something?

[faint pasture]

This is a top-down view game with some pawn switching, so a camera detached from the pawn makes sense. I'm just wondering if we make a seperate camera actor or just overload PlayerController to act as the floating camera.

Rate your general programming ability 0-10

[rain egret]

i made a helm with a compass and i was wondering how i can get him to point in the right direction.
i am controlling it via a animation blueprint and my setup is

get actor location
find look at rotation to 0,100000000000000,0
so the expected outcome would be, the compass should always point towards this direction, however the actual behavior is that the compass will point at different places according to the ships start rotation

[tawdry surge]

wyzant.com is better for tutors/mentors

[sonic crow]

ty i am trying to figure it out, does not seem to allow my explosions to happen. Also does not seem to work when i connect it from the core enum, odd

[faint pasture]

Do you know what a variable, function, or object are?

[rain egret]

so basically "how to make compass"

[faint pasture]

You setting the WORLD rotation of the compass?

[tawdry surge]

you are trying to do the input inside the bomb

[rain egret]

yes its rotating in world rotation

[faint pasture]

Just find some Intro to programming for noobs stuff and at least make sure you know a little bit about GENERAL programming.

[tawdry surge]

keep that in the player controller

so the proper way would be more like this

[faint pasture]

Doesn't have to be any specific language. It can be BASIC, Java, Python, anything. Just learn the absolute basics so you're not totally lost right out the gate

[cerulean raft]

Is it possible to pause the game without affecting animations of our character?
I want to show my character in UI bg and when I make changes to it, it updates in realtime and show different equip animations but at the same time the game is paused?

[faint pasture]

dafuq is that? Just set it in world, no adding or anything

@rain egretWhere do you get that rotation mode selection?

[rain egret]

hm yea that did it, thanks

[sonic crow]

cool so I have to put this in player controller BP and not the basic bomb BP?

[faint pasture]

@sonic crowIn plain English, what are you trying to do?

[tawdry surge]

yeah

he wants an input event to determine the rotation of an emitter

he's basically got it tho

[sonic crow]

In short, trying to have my input affect the rotation of an explosion of my line bombe in game

[faint pasture]

Is that set in stone when you spawn the bombs or dynamic?

[sonic crow]

here is an example of it working in two directions i want to have this working in game but pressing an input

[faint pasture]

When you spawn the bomb, set a vector variable ExplosionDirection on it

if that is set on spawn

if you want it to check on detonation, just give the bombs a reference to your character and read whatever you need off it

like if I'm running left, spawn a bomb, then run right, which way should the explosion go?

I'm basically asking if it determines direction when its spawned or when it actually detonates

[sonic crow]

The Bomb is a mesh is scales for a few seconds then gets destroyed, once destroyed it actives a particle explosion, there are 4 different types of particle explosions, I am only trying to deal with the one, the line explosion. The bomb always spawns infrom of the player, but the direction of the explosion (which is only meant to be a line) can be altered by changing the "Spawn Transform Rotation Z (Yaw) of the SpawnActor BP Explosion...all I want to do is for the player to be able to change the direction of this line explosion by (Up, Down , Left, Right) with an input of a mouse button keyboard button or gamepad input etc....the user should have the ability to change the line bomb direction based on a button selection.

Everything works, I just need to connect it to an input, i do not know how to do that

[tawdry surge]

inputs in the controller

[faint pasture]

Yes process the inputs in your PlayerController or Pawn and just pass the direction to the bomb

[tawdry surge]

the event delegate in the bomb bp

[faint pasture]

I still don't know how you know which bomb to talk to unless you just assume the last one but thats the approach. The bomb knows NOTHING about inputs, just that it has a direction variable and it uses that.

[tawdry surge]

true this assumes one bomb

[faint pasture]

Basically in PlayerController or Pawn

Input -> GetBombUnderCursor or GetLastBomb or whatever -> SetExplosionDirection based on whatever

[sonic crow]

I have an enum system that fore the time being I connected to an integer value (enums having a value from 0-3 (for the 4 options) I manuall set that value so that it only fires off the line bomb, now i am trying to get the direction of the line bomb to be controlled by the controller. I have attached to screenshot one of my Bomb BP and the other of the controller BP based on the suggested feedback, is this what you meant?

my grammer is shot due to lack of sleep sorry

it still is not working

[faint pasture]

@sonic crowYes just set Rotator on the bomb FROM THE PAWN OR CONTROLLER and you're in business

the bomb does not have inputs

unless you specifically enable input on it and handle stuff like that but that's an ass backwards way to do it IMO. Just get input in character or playercontroller, and tell the bomb what direction to use

[sonic crow]

do you mean this?

[faint pasture]

No not at all

From your character or playercontroller, get bomb, set the rotation variable to whatever

You still haven't answered if the rotation is determined at spawn time or can be set later

[sonic crow]

my only concern is that this does not come from my enum, it is now spawning from my controller BP which means all my code attached to my enum is mute

[sharp rapids]

You are checking for input in your bomb BP, which is not a good way of doing it

Instead Check for Input in your Controller/Pawn and pass it to the Bomb

[faint pasture]

@sonic crowSet this Rotator value from your character

then when it explodes itll use that value to determine the direction

thats it

like 3 nodes

idk how many other ways to spell it out

[sonic crow]

the rotation is set in the controller, i made sure both rotator variables have the same name in both BP so it can pull that information but it does not seem to pull it

also there is no node available for the bomb inside of the controller

only a cast to option

[tawdry surge]

In this case you would cast from the controller into the bomb and set the direction variable that way.
The pictures I posted were using an event dispatcher and assumed only one bomb will be active at a time

[gusty cypress]

Does anyone know how to cut off the units on number? I'm making split time and its usually off from the final timer when all split times are added together

Heres a pic example of what I think is happening (rounding) which is why I need to cut off units

it displays milliseconds but I believe therse more numbers after which round up last number sometimes by more than one digit

[brazen merlin]

https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/solved-how-to-round-floats-0-234378996-0-23/144299/5

[sonic crow]

what type of event dispatcher did you use?

?

rotating an object before placing it is surprisingly complicated, wish there was a tut covering this topic

[faint pasture]

No it isn't, you just aren't listening

How many bombs can you change directions on at once?

Just the last place one I'm assuming?

or is it whichever one your mouse is hovering over?

[sharp rapids]

I think he doesn't understand setting variables in one BP from another BP

[sharp rapids]

You don't need to create the variable in both BPs

[sonic crow]

ideally whatever the last button pressed would be the current direction (if i press up then the bombs go up until i choose a new direction etc....provided i have the line bomb selected

[sharp rapids]

Only have it on the Bomb and set it from the Controller

[faint pasture]

Ok so do you have some variable in your character or controller CurrentSelectedBomb?

Input -> Get CurrentSelectedBomb -> Set Direction

[sonic crow]

these are my current variables

[faint pasture]

literally this simple

when you select a bomb, set CurrentSelectedBomb

You actually want something like this if you can ever NOT have a bomb selected so it doesn't try to set direction on nothing

[sonic crow]

How does one make target appear?

[faint pasture]

just drag a pin off the reference and you can do stuff to it

like setting variables, calling events, etc

[gusty cypress]

The solution to this was totext(float) which I already have in the beginning of my timer so all later calculations of splits should work

[faint pasture]

@gusty cypress What is the datatype of your raw time value?

nvm see it

I would never convert a float to text then back to a float

keep it all floats and only format for display

[gusty cypress]

but this creates rounding errors (I think) as split times will show one value and then the final times is rounded up

[faint pasture]

So you want the rounded split times to be the truth even if theres rounding errors?

[sonic crow]

just to confirm current bomb selected, this is not a variable within the player controller, but you are calling the mesh from the BP_Bomb for example?

[brazen merlin]

maybe it was confusing as I was not sure how you were outputting the final number, but this picture shows the math

[faint pasture]

CurrentBombSelected is a variable on the PlayerController or Pawn, however you want to do it

the pawn/playercontroller has a REFERENCE to the BOMB it wants to modify the direction of

[brazen merlin]

it doesn't need to be converted to a string, just set the result in a variable at the end

[faint pasture]

@gusty cypressIf you want final time to be the sum of all ROUNDED splits, then just round the splits and save them, then add them up at the end

That'll be inaccurate but the displayed numbers will match up.

[sonic crow]

UE4 seems to think these two nodes are not compatible

[faint pasture]

What class is that in, your pawn or your bomb?

[gusty cypress]

I would prefer to keep it accurate and I've thought of that but both are displayed in game so the end would maybe change the displayed time

Timer(top) splits(right)

[sonic crow]

I am inside my topdown controller, referencing my BP_BasicBomb

[gusty cypress]

Thanks, I'll try this

[faint pasture]

Why is your controller spawning the explosions, the bomb should be doing that

controller spawns bomb, tells bomb what direction to explode in, bomb runs its explode event, exploding in the last direction it was told

[sonic crow]

here is my BP_Basic Bomb it also has it

[faint pasture]

Yeah you gotta pick and choose which approach you want to take. The sum of a bunch of rounded numbers will not necessarily be equal to the rounded final result

[faint pasture]

set THAT value from your controller

[sonic crow]

do you mean like this

[sonic crow]

this is my BP_BasicBomb

[sonic crow]

This is my Playercontroller BP

[faint pasture]

set the float value you named Rotation on Target

[gusty cypress]

Its weird to think about since 10 splits all with a time of 0.0004 would result in all 0.000 splits but final would be 0.004 seconds

[faint pasture]

Yes so choose which one you're gonna do. I would just round for display. What's the standard for speedrunning?

[sonic crow]

like this?

[faint pasture]

oh for fucks sake

[sonic crow]

I was told not to spawn the bomb from my player controller and to set the rotation in the player controller

[gusty cypress]

If your referring to standard time precision its .00 to .000 but my goal is just to get splits and final to match since I think anyone serious about speed running would use external timer program due to UE4 engine minor discrepancies

[faint pasture]

That's using all the same names you are

[sonic crow]

I mentioned that I cant get the blue target thing on the set explosion variable

[faint pasture]

I would call it BombExplosionYaw instead but that's whatever

Set the variable type of Target to be your Bomb class

You probably have it just as Actor

[sonic crow]

My target is a controller

[faint pasture]

if Target can ever not be a Bomb, then you have to cast like so

[sonic crow]

My explosion variable to set is a float

i create these variables in the player controller

[faint pasture]

Why are you bringing control rotation into this

[sonic crow]

I am trying to follow along, your image had the word "Set rotation" and this was the only viable option, your other image that has the blue target what type of target is that, is it an actor? and how do I get it to have a space on my rotation variable, also just to be clear I am recreating these variables in my player controller

[faint pasture]

You need to back up and make sure you understand exactly what is going on in all aspects of your project. This is a fucking horrorshow lol.

[sonic crow]

Everything in my project works, the only thing that I dont understand is how to get my inputs to change the rotation of my explosion on my line bomb, I can do this I just do not know how to connect my controller or keyboard to make it work in game

[faint pasture]

Ok lets start from the basics, are your control inputs implemented in your PAWN or PLAYERCONTROLLER?

Which one has the actual gamepad etc events in it

[sonic crow]

i deleted everything, all you see is the gamepad inputs

[gusty cypress]

Seems to work so far with print function, ill run some tests and lyk thanks!

[sonic crow]

this is what is inside my player controller

[faint pasture]

Where does all your other input live, like spawning bombs etc?

[sonic crow]

They live inside of two blueprints (BP_Bomb) and (BP_Explosions)

[faint pasture]

I mean the SPAWNING of the bomb

you presumably press a button to spawn a bomb

[sonic crow]

That would be currently in BP_BasicBomb

[faint pasture]

Does your character spawn bombs or do they only exist on the map?

[sonic crow]

character spawns bombs here is my BP-Basic Bomb

[faint pasture]

Why is that comment called Spawn Bomb when it does not spawn a bomb

show where you actually call Spawn Actor

and spawn the actual bomb

[sonic crow]

Spawn bomb note would be information needed as to where to place the bomb and to make sure player controller can spawn bomb, the bomb gets spawned at eventbeginplay Scaleup Bomb section

[faint pasture]

Show where you actually Spawn the bomb actor (probably in your player controller from the looks of it)

[sonic crow]

created a function inside of my BPcharacter, not the BP_controller

this is inside of BP_Character

[faint pasture]

So your input is split between your character and controller.....

OK so after you spawn the bomb, promote it to a variable, call it SelectedBomb or whatever, then you can set the explosion direction on it later from input

but to be honest this is a spaghetti clusterfuck

[sonic crow]

i have removed things out of my controller for now