blueprint

[static charm]

and then tuning the number

also frame rate seems to change how height the character jumps

by a few decimal places

[main lake]

yeah

[static charm]

like at 60fps its exactly 125 units. at 90fps, it's 125.000012 , at 35fps, it's 124.xxx

[main lake]

maybe you can use the delta seconds to correct that ?

[static charm]

sure if you make your own jump system

although i don't know why you need it to be that exact anyways

[main lake]

I need to replicate some minecraft mechanic to feel exactly the same

like the jump height, speed,...

What the unit used to calculate speed in unreal ?

[mossy mist]

theres no class called envqueryitemtype_actorbase

how do i get this

[dire timber]

Hello! I am working on a game and I would like help with a dynamic gun system. I am trying to make it where when I pick up a gun in scans for a texture with the same name, but with 'img' after it. I am trying to find out how to get the string and have the game search for a texture with that same name then add that to the UI.

that is the code and all that happens is the ui updates the opacity

[runic parrot]

Does anyone know if the "While loop" node Executes at least Once if i pass "Flase" on the condition?

[odd ember]

double click the macro and see for yourself

[cyan plover]

Why not just add the texture as a variable in the base gun class and then get the texture instead of doing the file search?

[dire timber]

well im trying to make it dynamic so i dont have casts

[cyan plover]

If it is in the base gun class where each gun derives from you don't have to have casts. If the gun slot 1 is of that base gun type then you can just call get texture

[dire timber]

oh thank you 🙏

[frail garnet]

How are you guys handling your jumping in the anim graph?

[trim matrix]

Guys, get default resolution returns 0 x and 0 y

How to fix it?

[sly forge]

Try using a delay node

[upbeat inlet]

My camera wont turn horizontally. What is wrong in my BP?

[sly forge]

Maybe you dont have TurnRate and Turn axis in Project-Engine-Input?

[stray moat]

dose anyone what this warning message is as I'm confused how I got it AttachTo: '/Game/ThirdPersonBP/Maps/UEDPIE_0_ThirdPersonExampleMap.ThirdPersonExampleMap:PersistentLevel.Weaponmaster_C_0.DefaultSceneRoot' root component cannot be attached to other components in the same actor. Aborting.

[dawn gazelle]

Are you using any "Attach to Actor" type nodes involving your Weaponmaster object?

[stray moat]

yes

[dawn gazelle]

You might have one of them hooked up incorrectly. Like you're trying to attach the root component of the Weaponmaster to something within the Weaponmaster itself.

[stray moat]

found it and fixed it, thanks

[stray moat]

my layer blend per bone worked fine yesterday but now it doesn't want to work , the character can move sideways and backwards but forward it jitters than plays the sideways animation

[idle silo]

How would I do a (wait until this condition is true then continue)

[maiden wadi]

Need more context for that. What is the condition and the use case?

[idle silo]

My character turns invisible then it will wait until the velocity is over a certain amount then turns visible again

I currently have so in the event tick it's always checking with a boolean but that has just created more problems down the line

[stray moat]

any help would be appreciated

[elfin acorn]

Does anyone know how I can start scene capture manually?
Right now I have tick disable and enable when want to start capture, but doesn't work.

[tight schooner]

Should just be a node for it

[maiden wadi]

Realistically, this would be best done in a different object that can be disabled or thrown away when done. What you're trying to do is usually called a gameplay ability. There's a whole plugin for it, but to do it on your own is fairly simple if you put in some small framework. All you would need to start is an ActorComponent and a UObject. UObject can have some basic logic in it on an event that the actor component can call each tick. When it satisfies it's condition(IsAbilityOwnerMoving?) it can do something(SetAbilityOwnerVisible) and remove itself from the actor component's ticked objects which removes it's entire line of logic from play after that.

But if you're just looking for a quick throw together, you should be able to handle it on tick just fine in the character by setting some state. You just need to check if the character is invisible first. If yes, check if moving, if yes, set visible. If invisible no, don't care.

[idle silo]

Thank you @maiden wadi I didn't know of the gameplay abilities plugin

[clear hinge]

silly question but I have a pawn(not defualt pawn), where i 've set up movement, but only the camera moves and my sphere mesh stays alike, with physics enabled, any ideas? moving with add movement input with floating pawn movement compoennet added

[elfin acorn]

Yea this works actually.
Something else was disabling it.

[marble violet]

is there anyway i can get the list of layer materials that are used in my material?

i want to get all these materials

but i only can get scaler, texture and vector, other than base material and parameter infromation

even i use get parameter info what's parameter name?

[dawn gazelle]

This is one way I know how to...

[marble violet]

hmm... what's virtual texture?

[dawn gazelle]

Dunno

[marble violet]

hmm... okay, let me try looking that up

thanks for the help

[wanton zealot]

Hello Guys, I am trying to set the current aperture of cinecamera via bp. I am getting the value changed in the editor but its not getting reflected on the display. Any idea?

[maiden wadi]

What do you mean by getting the value changed in the editor?

[wanton zealot]

At runtime, I am changing the value with slider. slider changes the value of aperture . So at runtime if i select the cinecamera value is getting changed in the editor but not on the display(see image).

[empty current]

Hello, I’m looking for a solution to get the highest value in an array, I found max of int array node, it’s working but I have another issue now : how to check if there are twice or more the same highest value ? I need to know this because right now if I have twice the same high value it just gives me 1 of those;

[tawdry mural]

if >= "max int" * 2 ?

[empty current]

What is *2

?

[ionic heath]

@gaunt ferry get alll actors with tag doesn't care what type they are, just that they have the same tag https://docs.unrealengine.com/4.27/en-US/BlueprintAPI/Utilities/GetAllActorswithTag/. As it says it is a slow operation, but so is GetAllActorsOfClass

[tawdry mural]

times 2

[empty current]

?

I dont get it

[tawdry mural]

put your value where 0 is

what you want to check

[empty current]

thank you; what I want to check if is there are two identical max value in the arraway

[candid nest]

Hey can anybody help me how to fix some error like camera and the ai player is not changing the lane plz help

[gentle urchin]

get max, loop through and check

[empty current]

How would I do this?

loop through and check

?

thank you bw

btw

[steady orbit]

How would i get the RPM of an actor that's NOT using physics?

[empty current]

zibin

it doesnt work

[tawdry mural]

because probably theres no identical max value in array

[empty current]

mmm

yes there are

if i print the boolean

it gives me 1 time hello on true when there are not twice the max value

and 2 times when there is twice the same highset valu

[tawdry mural]

you want 2 hellos on true?

[empty current]

no

I want to make a code that would understand if I have duplicated max values , and then be able to know which index it is that are the same

[tawdry mural]

so print out the array index

idk

i dont fully understand

[timber knoll]

(CurrentTickRotation - LastTickRotation) / (DeltaSeconds * 60)

Didn’t I answer this a few weeks ago 🤔

[timber knoll]

This would be the actual rotation in degrees per minute btw, but you can go from here 🙂

[wanton zealot]

Hello Guys, I am trying to set the current aperture of cinecamera via bp. I am getting the value changed in the editor but its not getting reflected on the display. At runtime, I am changing the value with slider. slider changes the value of aperture . So at runtime if i select the cinecamera value is getting changed in the editor but not on the display

[tawdry mural]

your image was very unclear

so value on slider changes but actual camera dont change aperture?

[trim matrix]

Would anyone know why my listview is infinite loop rendering components?!

[wanton zealot]

When we click on a any camera at runtime we’ll see a small window on the bottom right. So at runtime if I change the value of aperture via slider in the game, then it changes the value(text) in the editor but on the small window nothing happens

[tawdry mural]

how are you connecting slider value and aperture in bp?

[wanton zealot]

Using this function, target is Cinecamera and the slider value is newaperture.

[tawdry mural]

its a custom function , so i will need to know what inside

but that works too

[wanton zealot]

No it’s not

https://docs.unrealengine.com/4.27/en-US/BlueprintAPI/VirtualCamera_1/CinematicCamera/Aperture/SetCurrentAperture/

It means I used the wrong function

[tawdry mural]

oh i got lower engine version

probably

[wanton zealot]

Ok. Any idea what am I missing?

[tawdry mural]

i guess you know that slider value is from 0 to 1

because you got it working

[trim matrix]

Sorry, but can anyone help w/ this?

[wanton zealot]

I am setting the correct value as it is setting in the editor(text) I mean valid aperture value

[tawdry mural]

how you convert 0 1 to aperture?

map range?

because normal aperture is 50 , and you changing its value from 0 1 otherwise

[wanton zealot]

Set aperture function takes float value so I bounded slider to give valid value

[tawdry mural]

it changes the aperture but has no visible effect in game

[wanton zealot]

Yes you're right

[wanton zealot]

You've added Map Range Clamped. Is that the solution?

[tawdry mural]

no just showing that i tried

[wanton zealot]

ok. Is that working in the game?

[tawdry mural]

no

[wanton zealot]

ok. Its working in case of Set Focal length

[tawdry mural]

no effect even when youre really close to something?

[wanton zealot]

yes

[tawdry mural]

oh it might be focus settings

is it default?

[wanton zealot]

yes its on the Universal zoom

[tawdry mural]

then idk

[wanton zealot]

ok. Thank you

[stark sorrel]

Hi, I'm looking at a tutorial for Implement Custom Movement into the Advanced Locomotion System and in the tutorial the person rereads the BP_CustomMovementComponent to "is locally controlled" but when I do the same I can't find the "is locally controlled" "the tutorial dates from 2019 there was an update on that?

[trim matrix]

Can anyone help with this yet or

[timber knoll]

hard to know without context

[maiden wadi]

@trim matrix Is that creating a widget?

[trim matrix]

Uh

That’s updating the list view

[trim matrix]

Says it in the function name

And then that function is running on tick

But even tho that is unorthodox: that shouldn’t be causing the problem

Many people have asked why 😂

[maiden wadi]

Still, you should really use the correct call for that. A bunch of things do not initialize correctly in UserWidgets if you don't use CreateWidget for them.

[trim matrix]

Ok

It worked like this before

When I didn’t use a custom data object to pass things to

And that worked perfectly fine. No joke. Now it is just infinitely rendering things 😂

So would you know how to stop it infinitely rendering the stuff?

[maiden wadi]

I'm not entirely certain. I haven't used Listview too often, but as far as I'm aware, nothing in that image would cause an infinite loop. Not unless the widget itself has something going on on construct that can cause this to reupdate somehow.

[trim matrix]

No nothing is happening on construct

Literally it is just that screenshot which I posted, and then it is executed like this:

Which, I don’t see an issue whatsoever

And it worked last time I did it in a different project using this logic

[maiden wadi]

You're getting an actual infinite loop error detection though?

[trim matrix]

No not at all

[trim matrix]

It just constantly creates and renders the objects

Which, should not be happening 😂

[maiden wadi]

It's on tick though. So it'll run that creation once a frame.

[trim matrix]

Yeah but that shouldn’t matter

That has nothing to do with the issue at hand

Would it work if I changed this in my screenshot to addunique instead?

[warped spindle]

I Tried that but does't work. I have an Andreno512 so in device profiles i edited Adreno5XX. I put that in android high and is still with all settings in low in the game exported.
I edited even Adreno5xx_Low and put all the settings on medium and that dosen't work as well.
I don't know what to do anymore

[maiden wadi]

Is that a local array?

[trim matrix]

Yeah to the blueprint

(The widget event graph)

[maiden wadi]

I see in your other project's image that the array you're adding to looks like a local function array or am I mistaken?

Cause if it's local to the function, it'd overwrite, but if it's local to the entire object it'll just keep adding.

[trim matrix]

Hmmmm

I think in my project right now it is local to the object not the function

[maiden wadi]

Right. And here where you said it works fine, I'm semi sure that the array is local to this function. I don't see it in the variables list and there's a dropdown in the local variables part implying there's something there.

[trim matrix]

Hmmm, interesting 🤔🤔

Well, thanks for the input Authaer, will try it later as am not at my PC rn lol - but will update you if it works 🙂

[blissful widget]

Anyone implemented 'hitstop'? It's when you damage something and the game momentarily slows down or stops to really sell the hit. I attempted it - https://blueprintue.com/blueprint/15zjt1ol/

The only issue is .03 is basically no time, and I think it gets rounded down to 0, or it feels like it. Anything over it, like .5 is way too long 🤔

IDK if my issue is the Delay node, as that's global time scale dependant

[odd ember]

anything below frame time will be rounded to frame time

if you have a delay set to 0.0 it'll update next frame

if you have a timer that loops with a lower value than frame time you'll get multiple updates the next frame

[maiden wadi]

Personally, I'd make a component for it on the controller or something. Use it's tick to get RealTime float and base your time on that. Much cleaner than translating from current time dilation.

Tick still runs at same interval, so you can still check the value of real time each frame.

[spice smelt]

am I being trolled?

"deprecated (use myself)" like wtf

😆 which one?

looks like the replacement is ToText

then there's one without (float) which takes integers and no other parameter xD
well ToText has all the parameters I needed, but it's awkward to get a text, cast to string, append measurement unit, cast back to text

[maiden wadi]

Funny enough they changed the name but it isn't actually marked as deprecated.

No deprecation warning. Just a name change. And you can't get the AsCurrency in BP. It's an FText static.

[spice smelt]

so they deprecated the old one, replaced it in c++, and forgot to add it back to bp

except you should let one have the freedom of deciding the multiplier for the fixed point

[odd ember]

make your own wrapper for that

[spice smelt]

yeah i'm going to, I was just confused by that deprecated message

[maiden wadi]

Seems they missed a word in the deprecation message. Pretty sure this is the new target function.

On a side note. If you really want the decimal control, you can still use FloatToText with your own currency format.

[storm vigil]

Hi. I currently have this problem wherein my mesh(charactermesh) became mesh(charactermesh0) and its making errors referencing to this mesh. I tried finding answers in the chats but nothing specific. I was previously fixing errors and integrating stuff then this showed up. Thank you

[odd ember]

if you have a charactermesh in your parent class and reparent a subclass with a charactermesh to the parent class, this will happen

[lapis flower]

I can't get inputaction events to work in other actors or pawns outside the player, is there anything I could do to get it working?

[blissful widget]

IK, that's how I arrived at that number. It seemed FPS dependant, in that if I went under the frame duration it would never pause, but otherwise it would. There was a fine threshold for the pause to apply at all, is odd.

[spice smelt]

(hit result) how do I use this information if there's no reference to the hit mesh data?

[blissful widget]

Is having timers and early returning the tick function if there is nothing to be done the best way, either in BP or CPP? No such thing as adding temporarily to a processing queue, which then gets removed after?

I can think of a way to make this with like a delegate processing actor maybe, but that's kinda ECS-y at that point. Not sure if such ticks would be expensive, otherwise.

I work in FinTech and we use decimal types for currency of course, but the next best thing is a big int, 10 ^ - (precision + 1), IE for 2 decimals you'd store $5.99 as 5990, and then parse that big int into your string thing.

This is of course the stupid way of doing things, or rather the caveman way. Sometimes you just have to though, like in temporary scripts or whatever.

The amount of headaches floats cause when used as currency... Good to just deprecate and remove that function 😅

[spice smelt]

it'd be nice to just have a fixed point type (UFixed or whatever)

fair enough, I tend to think too much generic rather than specific

been making utility apps with Game Maker and Unreal for ages, and actual games with raw C++ 😅

[iron bone]

Looking for advice on how to make it so a player cannot abuse a wall jump to infinitely scale a wall. I'm not sure if this is a bad way to go about it but I'm thinking if maybe there is a way I can tag the component I just wall jumped off of and make it have a cool down timer or something

right now I have it set up so player can do a little jump after wall jumping so they can figure out their landing but it's too easy to just jump back against the wall and then continue to scale upwards

[odd ember]

give me your best HFT algo

[odd ember]

I'm not sure what you're asking here or what you're trying to do? tick doesn't return anything. it's a function akin to the general concept of an update() function

[blissful widget]

trade.profit() > 0 ? trade.complete() : thread.sleep(1000) :)

Different FinTech though, customer facing app

[odd ember]

as for things like processing queues, pooling etc: none of that is exposed to blueprint in any way that matters

[earnest tangle]

I suspect his best HFT algo assumes you are hardlinked to the exchange with minimal ping

[odd ember]

#cpp is where you will want to go for that

[blissful widget]

I mean it sounds inefficient to be processing the tick constantly. There's no way to dynamically switch ticking on and off right? Or is it not even worth worrying about?

[odd ember]

#cpp has bCanEverTick, in blueprint you can turn off tick in the general details panel of your bp actor/component

[blissful widget]

By dynamically I mean at runtime, EG turn tick on while a value is keeping for 5 seconds

[odd ember]

and yes you can switch on tick dynamically

SetTickEnabled

[earnest tangle]

The BP tick enabled is mildly confusing for components because they start with bCanEverTick = false

been more than once where I was wondering why my comp isn't ticking :P

[odd ember]

I don't think that's true?

[blissful widget]

Brilliant, will look into that! Gotta figure out profiling tools too, it's kinda primitive compared to Unity, at least in terms of UX

[odd ember]

every UComponent derivative class I've had has always had bCanEverTick enabled

[earnest tangle]

tbh I'm not 100% on it, but just last week I was helping my friend with a C++ based ActorComponent which refused to tick unless we manually set it to bCanEverTick = true

[odd ember]

to be fair

the template class you get through adding a cpp class in editor sets it up so bCanEverTick = true in the code

so you may be onto something

[maiden wadi]

PrimaryActorTick.bCanEverTick != PrimaryActorTick.SetTickFunctionEnable(true)

[cobalt gulch]

Hi

Is there a way to stop sound cues from playing

[maiden wadi]

Stop them from playing, or stop them as they're playing?

[cobalt gulch]

Stop them as they're playing

[maiden wadi]

Which function are you calling to play them?

[cobalt gulch]

If you're wondering its to plant a bomb in a game like siege/csgo

[maiden wadi]

There should be a Stop function for that. You can call it on the pointer that function returns.

[cobalt gulch]

Ok so I might need to stream this because it's a bit complex

Basically I have a button on another level setup so it sets "has diffuser" to true

But because it's in a different level i don't think it's setting the variable

[maiden wadi]

Different level as in different map entirely?

[cobalt gulch]

Yep

[maiden wadi]

You need to check out SaveGame objects. It's the only sensible way to save game related data between map loads.

[cobalt gulch]

how could I do this?

[maiden wadi]

That is a pretty long discussion. I would just look up some information on SaveGame objects. It is basically the way that you save data to disk. It allows you to load that data back up after loading into a new world.

How you organize that is up to you and your game design.

[cobalt gulch]

So would it be easier just to move the character select screen to the level lol

[chilly geyser]

should this work?

[maiden wadi]

Sure, as long as those actors have that tag.

[chilly geyser]

its not working, im sending from widget to blueprint actor

i can get it to work in reverse

just not this way

[maiden wadi]

Possibly. Still highly recommend checking out SaveGame objects at some point though regardless of the decision. They're a massive requirement to any form of game design.

[cobalt gulch]

Ok thanks

[chilly geyser]

is it not possible to send from widget to another blueprint with interface?

[zealous fog]

Is there a way to easily reset a specific variable on all the children of a class? So I have a couple of variables, I have changed it on multiple children, but I want all of them to reset to default again. Would I need to go through each child and set each variable on them to default or could I do it from the parent class somehow?

[maiden wadi]

If you can select them in the ContentBrowser there is. Edit Shared Defaults

[zealous fog]

Cheers

[limber storm]

hey guys im new to blueprints and game development in overal,... but im stuck with something and cant find the solution... as you can see my "Health Ref" variable isnt compatible with the "clear and invalidate timer by handle". does anyone know why that is so? thanks!!! 😄

i hope im in the right channel to ask questions to 😛

[hollow gorge]

Is there a way to create an event that triggers as soon as a variable changes? Example: Spikes deal damage to character's health component. I want the thirdpersoncharacter to update the Hud everytime the variable within the health component changes.

[limber storm]

i think so, this is a health regen box

yesss there is

[hollow gorge]

I don't want to cast if possible

[limber storm]

i made a health bar that updates if i gain or lose health

[hollow gorge]

ok how does it work? please send me a screenshot in DMs

[maiden wadi]

You have to do this explicitly. What you're looking for is an event dispatcher. This should be a property on the same object that the changing value is on. You change the value and then call that event dispatcher. And then elsewhere you can get that object or even do it in that object itself, and get the dispatcher, and bind an event to it. That event will run whenever you call the dispatcher.

[odd ember]

event dispatchers are amazing

and underused 😔

[maiden wadi]

I think I'm bringing up that average. 😄

[hollow gorge]

I'm still trying to learn how to properly use event dispatchers, but that sounds exactly what I was looking for, thanks

[maiden wadi]

Think of binding as a subscription. You get a pointer to that object, and subscribe to the call that it'll make.

[maiden wadi]

One of those is a memory pointer to a particle system and the other is a function that takes in a struct. You can't pass a pointer as a struct. What are you trying to do exactly?

[limber storm]

i made a health regen pool. when my character enters he gains health. but now i need to end the regen when my character leaves the pool

[maiden wadi]

Are you using a timer to increment the health?

[limber storm]

yes

[maiden wadi]

From the SetTimerByEvent node, there is the blue pin on the right. RightClick that and PromoteToVariable. That variable will act as a handle that will let you later stop the timer. You use that where you were trying to plug in the particle system.

[limber storm]

okay 1 sec

ty so much.... 😢

ive been searching for 2 hours today

[maiden wadi]

Get used to searching for 2 hours or more for things. 😄 Part of the job.

[limber storm]

hahaha yeah well it is rewarding when you finnaly find the solution tho ^^

[blissful grail]

Wait until you're on a problem for days to weeks 🙃

[limber storm]

nice encouragment guys! xD

[normal adder]

Can someone help me out with a stupid math question I have? I'm following a tutorial to implement a compass bar at the top of the screen like in Skyrim. It uses the control rotation of the player. In the tutorial the guy gets a number from 0 - 360 when going "Get player controller -> Get control rotation". However I'm getting a number from -180 to 180. Does anyone have an idea how I can convert this into a value from 0 - 1? (0 being the compass turned one way, 1 means its turned all the other way). Unfortunately this is where the little math skill I have leaves my body like a cow in a tractor beam

[maiden wadi]

Just add 180 to your number to convert -180-180 to 0-360.

[hardy fable]

^^^ then divide by 360 for your scalar

[normal adder]

Perfect, thanks guys 👍

[trim marsh]

Hello guys , im trying to set an adjust brightness slider , how can i set the same value that exist in level to the value for the brightness slider without binding

[novel rock]

Can you think of anything worse that this?

[brazen merlin]

yes... NewBlueprint

[versed sun]

https://www.screencast.com/t/YCK2crLuJv5 you can click on the Break PostProcessSetting and get a list in details to show what pins you want to get

[trim marsh]

got it!

[trim marsh]

💪🏽

[faint pasture]

For future reference there's also the map range nodes which can do any sort of linear scaling like that and also clamp

It does the add and divide internally

[versed sun]

a lot of node have settings on the details tab that you can change

[faint pasture]

Is that new? I've been doing unreal for 7 years and never thought to look at the details tab for a node.

[trim matrix]

@maiden wadi Hey man! I tried out the thing which you suggested about the local variable - and it totally works™️! The caveat now being that I cant actually click on any of the buttons because I believe that it is refreshing too much?

So when I press on any of the buttons in the list view, it doesn't even register the selection

[brazen merlin]

yeah, they installed the detail tabs a few months ago

[trim matrix]

Which I believe is a problem I have had before

[trim matrix]

(ref)

I believe it doesn't register any clicks because it is like resetting the whole list view like onTick - meaning as soon as I select the damn button, it just resets lol

Does anyone know how I would be able to update the player list without doing it on tick?

[versed sun]

do it on a timer?

every 1 sec

[trim matrix]

Yeah I could

or I guess I could do it on player leave, join and dies

[versed sun]

or only when the number of players changes

[trim matrix]

but then is there an on player come alive?

[trim matrix]

nah I have things that depend on it being updated when a player dies and comes back to life

nvm, found this one :D

[crimson ether]

Hey!

I and my friend are about to start prototyping our first game.
I think we should make a mind map and iterate there so that we can avoid mistakes as much as possible and get the dependencies right.

But my friend thinks we should jump right in and solve problems as they appear. What do you think would be the better approach for us?

[odd ember]

you can control the player spawning by overriding OnSpawnDefaultPawnFor in game mode

[trim matrix]

Don't worry - I did it, but thank you very much :)

[odd ember]

think your stuff through

like, really

have small, very accomplishable goals

make a viable mechanic > make a viable core game loop > make a viable level > take it from there

that's enough work for a year btw

[crimson ether]

thanks for the suggestion.

May I know, what are the first steps when you're about to start coding your game?

[odd ember]

that answer will depend on what the core mechanics and systems are. but in broad terms, the architecture necessary for the game to stay iterative and modular. the biggest risk with a making any software product is painting yourself into a corner. so everything needs to be light and easy to accommodate for htis

[crimson ether]

I don't understand what you mean by "painting yourself into a corner".

[odd ember]

making decisions now that will hurt your project in the future

[crimson ether]

so, I need to maintain some room for iteration during production?

[odd ember]

your production is iteration

[crimson ether]

How do i identify decisions that're going to cause pitfalls?

[odd ember]

you don't

you make your architecture in such a way that any decision will not impact the structure greatly

you have to be prepared for anything

[crimson ether]

how do I design such an architechture so that I can solve problems without messing everything up?

[odd ember]

study software engineering and OOP for many years, get a job, trial and error it for a few years until you become grizzled and jaded enough by the pain that it becomes second nature

[crimson ether]

Thanks for your insight @odd ember

[odd ember]

good luck

laying down the architecture is the hardest part

[trim matrix]

If I wanted to update a list view when a player joins (that event is in the game logic), how would I then cast to the widget with the list view (which also contains the event to update it in it's event graph) to update it?

[fiery swallow]

Event dispatcher

[tacit briar]

I'm brand new to UR4 and im trying to make a menu but my text is all inverted in game but when im editing it, its fine, I think it has to do with how its positioned but i've tried changing stuff to no avail. Wonder if its just something I missed?

If it changes anything its in VR

[versed sun]

is the widget in world?

[tacit briar]

its attached to the VR hand

[versed sun]

it might be rotated 180

[trim matrix]

yeah spawned in world

[versed sun]

oh sorry, was answering Flowenol

[tacit briar]

Thing is

its like its showing the wrong side of the widget

like the back side is transparent

[versed sun]

Can you rotate the Widget Component 180 on the Z ?

or set scale to -1

[tacit briar]

wooo scale to -1 was the answer

thanks a lot :D

[versed sun]

Might be an answer , might be a janky fix

[tacit briar]

However i have another noobish question 😅

[fiery swallow]

In the widget bind an event to a dispatcher that fires anytime someone joins

[tacit briar]

So I have a settings button and I want it to reset the player score back to 0. However I am lost in how to be able to call that function that's in another BP when this is a widget.

[versed sun]

Im not sure if this is "right" but i like useing the Game Instance to communicat from Widgets and Actors

[sturdy garnet]

this is my bullets code, however when it collides with a wall or box it just bounces away but if i run into a bullet the code works? any ideas why this may be?

[tacit briar]

Thats what i was able to find online but i wasn't sure if it was the right thing to use, il look into it

[trim matrix]

a dispatcher?!

I am so confused

[fiery swallow]

Why not have your widget constantly update the players score a few times a second

An event dispatcher

[versed sun]

Event Dispatcher are also useful for you too

[trim matrix]

I am so confused lol 😂

[fiery swallow]

I cant really sit here and explain the whole process of an event dispatcher sadly, it would be too confusing. I'll shoot you a good video though

But its what you want

[trim matrix]

Yeah alright

A video would be really nice ty :D

[fiery swallow]

https://youtu.be/HLHueQLKcGc

[tawdry mural]

your wall is not an actor

[trim matrix]

Cool, thank you very much 🙂

[fiery swallow]

https://youtu.be/sEcoWGrF1Hg

Both of these guys are great

[trim matrix]

OOo yeah I like Mathew - makes really good BP tutorials 👁️👄👁️

[tawdry mural]

tomatoes

[versed sun]

I don't know if anyone else gets this bug with widgets , but often child widgets don't work right until after project is restarted

[fiery swallow]

Take your pick both legends lol

[tacit briar]

because I want it not to be performance heavy, so i just update it when the player get in game to set it to 0, when the player score, and I want to give the choice to reset the score to 0

But actually I might just make it a reset level button

as more score = more doors opened so when you reset you would need to be tped back to the starting zone

[versed sun]

those 2 are my go-to for any question on how something works

[fiery swallow]

Checking an integer and setting it even on tick wouldn't put a dent in performance

Is fine if you check it 3 times a second

[sturdy garnet]

i just did this "Collision Presets: Physics Actor" and it still does not work? is there any way to make it an actor?

[fiery swallow]

Have you seen the ALSv4 code? It runs a million things on tick and every 0.1 second delay

And again it doesn't effect performance in the slightest

[tawdry mural]

create actor and put wall in it 😄

[fiery swallow]

You'll be perfectly safe updating small variables a few time a second bud

[tawdry surge]

Alsv4 isn't a full game with any real art work. Checking things on tick is a bad practice in general and I wouldn't get into that habit

[fiery swallow]

The point is checking things a few times a second isn't bad for performance

And full game or not a game that properly uses event tick poses no threats to performance

But I agree to not put things on tick for no reason, that wasn't what I suggested

[sturdy garnet]

managed to figure that out but the balls just ricochete off of it?

[tawdry mural]

add a collision box and make it just a little bigger than the wall

in the same actor ofc

[sturdy garnet]

i have it set larger than the box and still nothing

[blazing parrot]

hello! i have a question about timelines and the curve float asset

[odd ember]

this is not a great explanation

event dispatchers are subscription services

when a dispatcher gets called, anyone subscribed gets notified

[tawdry mural]

switch these

[icy dragon]

Do they pay for the subscription though?

[odd ember]

"binding" an event dispatcher is the same as subscribing

[tawdry mural]

you destroying the bullet first so the code after will not shoot

[odd ember]

what's the question?

[blazing parrot]

when apply cubic interpolation like it says in the ue4 example, it doesnt reflect that at all lol

[odd ember]

where do you find cubic interpolation? just right click on the point and pick the interpolation of choice

[blazing parrot]

Yup, just like in my snapshot. So isnt there supposed to be a curve?

[odd ember]

if you right click on your points, you can choose interpolation type

[glossy bane]

Considering the AND checks every condition even if the first was false, would that justify using a branch per condition or would the additional branch make the performance gain negligible?

[odd ember]

another branch is going to cost you more

if you care this much about optimization, move to #cpp

I meant the language, not the channel

[glossy bane]

got it, so would only make sense if one of the conditions is checking complex math or w/e

just trying to squeeze out as much optimization as possible

[odd ember]

it rarely would make sense to have two branches next to each other

[odd ember]

then move to cpp. blueprint is going to be slow regardless of this type of optimization

so you're wasting time

[glossy bane]

I'm aware blueprints is going to be slower, doesn't mean I can't try to make efficient bp's

[odd ember]

this is not the way

[meager spade]

I would prioritize making readable bp's that's the hardest thing imo

[odd ember]

making efficient blueprints means reducing node usage, turning off tick on everything, not using nodes like GetAllActors*

and even so

you can optimize if you find that it's an issue for the game

premature optimization is the root of all evil

[trim marsh]

1. At the beggining -- 2) When i move the slide this apply the effect but , then i close the widget , but when re-open , the position isn't save, any hints?

[glossy bane]

I agree I'm most definitely sometimes overthinking it but I still find it informative to ask and find out such deatils

[odd ember]

try to focus on finishing the project as a prototype first, then consider detouring down the procrastination rabbithole of optimization

[desert juniper]

A simple mathmatical operation will be done tens of thousands of times faster than you imagine. Overoptimizing for something so unimportant is definitely overthinking it 🙂

[broken wadi]

I have a similar issue, its probably because you need to set the value for the slider each time you render it back on the viewport.

[odd ember]

the issue is as well that you don't know what part of your code will need optimization and what part of your code works OK as is

not every piece of code is subject to the same level of optimization

so you're really just wasting time trying to optimize

[blazing parrot]

thanks for the help. i did it over and it worked

[desert juniper]

This is where the profiler comes into play 🙂

[odd ember]

yes, when you've made your prototype

[desert juniper]

yup yup

[glossy bane]

I already have a prototype and have actual concerns over the performance hence why I'm looking into it in such detail, although I'd definitely agree I should spend more time on things like assets & textures then how much 1 branch costs

[desert juniper]

yeah, start looking at the profiler then, rather than arbitrary code you think is not performant

don't look at things like assets and textures without knowing that you actually need to look at them

[odd ember]

really if performance IS an issue, it's definitely worth considering move your non performant objects to cpp

[desert juniper]

you don't go changing out the motor on your car because the tires are making a funny sound

[glossy bane]

Yeah learning the profiler was the next thing on my list after "cleaning up code" so I appreciate the reality check that I'm probably wasting my time looking at such miniscule details

[odd ember]

look at expensive functions if anything

if you're tracing per tick

that can probably be optimized

but use the profiler

[glossy bane]

yeah the amount of abomination code that I had written months ago that I've ended up replacing with more efficient event driven code is unbelivable

[glossy bane]

will do, thanks for the help

[tacit briar]

I was wondering if there was a way to reset the whole level, putting everything back to where they were before?

[versed sun]

open level

[tacit briar]

or is reset level the only way?

ok

Level name is the map name?

[trim marsh]

how do u solve it? xD

[tawdry mural]

yes

[tacit briar]

Ok

[broken wadi]

Save the user settings, then use that stored value when you are displaying it again.

[versed sun]

or use https://www.screencast.com/t/sIiMWHQ8k

[tacit briar]

If i wanted to import a map my friend made i can just drop the folder over + the mesh/objects?

[tawdry mural]

wat

[odd ember]

#ue4-general

[tacit briar]

ah ok ty

[tacit briar]

this makes me have 2 instances of the game

and open level crashes my playtest

[stray moat]

[SM5] SceneTexture expressions cannot be used in opaque materials

[frigid olive]

Yo guys

can u help me pleasE??????????????????

[neat stream]

is it more expensive than making a linetrace at some location? 🙂

[odd ember]

most likely

but unless you do it per tick it's nothing to worry about

[tacit briar]

this just overlapped my current map with the same map

is it possible to then just delete the old map?

[versed sun]

dunno, i think it worked for me

[tacit briar]

im in vr idk if you knew

[versed sun]

maybe make a blank map, change to blank map then to map you want

[odd ember]

game mode has functions to reset the game afaik

[tacit briar]

i also tried restart game

however i think bc the player has pawn as its parent i cannot use the restart game thing

and im afraid of switching to the gamemode parent might break everything

[odd ember]

the player has a pawn as its parent?

[tacit briar]

cuz im in VR yes

[odd ember]

game mode you can call on any class by using GetGameMode

[tacit briar]

yeah

but the return value wont link to restart game

[odd ember]

do you have a custom game mode?

[versed sun]

cast it ?

[maiden wadi]

GetGameMode starts as GameModeBase

[odd ember]

yes but if their custom class derives from GameModeBase it's all the same

so it's more than just casting

[tacit briar]

im brand new to ue4 im doing it for a school projet so im a bit lost in all of this ;-;

[odd ember]

make a new game mode

an actor

as its parent, make sure that you pick GameMode, not GameModeBase

[maiden wadi]

Not fully sure why OpenLevel doesn't work?

[tacit briar]

it just crashes the game

well make the screen freeze

doesnt crash it

[maiden wadi]

That sounds like a rather important problem to solve. OpenLevel is how you enter maps.

[tacit briar]

well like i load into the map automatically

cuz the vrpawn is placed there

[maiden wadi]

You load into the level automatically because that is the default map or you're playing from PIE with the level open. Having the pawn in it just allows you to auto possess that pawn long after the level is opened.

Are you testing in PIE? If so this could be a PIE issue with the level name. I have a vague memory about this.

[tacit briar]

its the default map yes

PIE?

[maiden wadi]

Play In Editor

[tacit briar]

oh i am yes

oooo

maybe thats the issue

il try the other wya

[maiden wadi]

Let me test something really quick. I swear I remember something about PIE world names being different.

[tacit briar]

Because I mean my game is almost done all I need is to be able to manually restart the game, change maps and limit the navmesh

[maiden wadi]

Hmm. GetCurrentLevelName removes that PIE prefix.

Are you always loading the same single map?

[tacit briar]

for now yes

i can try and load a new map?

[maiden wadi]

Which engine version?

[tacit briar]

4.25.4

[sturdy garnet]

for a fps what is better? line traces or a physical projectile

[odd ember]

if you click the arrow down on GetCurrentLevelName there should be a boolean. try ticking it

@tacit briar

[tacit briar]

ok

well first let me fix cuz i changed the parent and somehow now i can't play the lvl

[odd ember]

how fast are your projectiles?

[tacit briar]

i cloned vrpawn before i changed it but still bugged everything

[sturdy garnet]

i want them to be instant like in destiny 2 or serious sam

[maiden wadi]

You could probably have about 1 physics bullet for the cost of 500 traces.

[sturdy garnet]

but i also want them to have a visual element to them is like in destiny when you shoot there are coloured traces with most weapons

[maiden wadi]

So a trace with a niagara effect. 1 physics bullet/20 traces with effects

[sturdy garnet]

the main thing that is confusing me tho is if i wanted multiple guns like a pistol and assault rifle how would i make them different if the bullet is being casted from the character? i haven't got a physical gun yet but when i do add one how would it affect what i currently have and how would wanting different guns also effect that

[tacit briar]

yeah idk what i did now the player cam spawns at 0 and the hands are floating where the camera should be

[maiden wadi]

Make a gun base class for starters. You'll have a lot of similarities with weapons. Base classes help reduce code copying. For instance, you don't need much in a gun past reload, and start/stop fire. That can be called on the base class. All of the heavy visuals and more complex differing logic can go in child classes. Eventually you'll learn about SoftObjectPtrs and why that's important. You can even have multiple base classes so that you don't have to repeat too much logic. Such as a pistol base and a rifle base. Weapon or the projectile that the weapon shoots should simply call a damage event on the thing it wants to damage. And now the only thing you ever have to actually cast to is the original weapon base class to call reload, or start/stop firing.

[tacit briar]

im going to load the maps i was going to import

and move my blueprints over to that instead

[odd ember]

maybe start fresh from a new VR template instead?

[trim matrix]

wait one sec

If I bind the event dispatcher in my widget's event graph like this

https://screenshots.foxy.rip/2pCWdvzR

And call it like that in somewhere else

Will that fire off the event?

[odd ember]

does the class where you call it spawn the widget?

[quartz pawn]

this used to make my UI showup but now it doesn't anymore

any reason why?

[zealous fog]

Is the cast succeeding?

[quartz pawn]

mhm

tried it with another widget, not working

BeginPlay isn't running er

either

[odd ember]

promote your widget to a variable and use that variable to use the SetInputModeOnly function

[quartz pawn]

that wont fix it, the beginplay event isn't running

[odd ember]

well there's your problem 😉

in which class is this?

[quartz pawn]

playercontroller

it was working before

[odd ember]

is tick enabled?

[quartz pawn]

I think?

[odd ember]

actually

go to your project settings

check Maps&Modes that your default playercontroller is correctly setup

[quartz pawn]

well I have a gamemode override

for the level

[odd ember]

that might be the issue then

check that your player controller is setup correctly regardless

[quartz pawn]

it is

[odd ember]

in the override or in the project settings

[quartz pawn]

its setup

correctly

[odd ember]

which template is this?

[quartz pawn]

blank

or

the default

[odd ember]

try not having the game mode override and see if it works

[quartz pawn]

nope

its gotta be a gamemode issue

[odd ember]

yep

[quartz pawn]

I changed it to another one and it worked

idk whats the issue

[odd ember]

can you show the functions panel in your game mode?

[quartz pawn]

its all correct

[odd ember]

and all the events?

[odd ember]

ok, which events are you overriding?

or having

[quartz pawn]

in the gamemode?

[odd ember]

yes

[quartz pawn]

none

[odd ember]

try using a print node on the game mode begin play

[quartz pawn]

doesn't print

[odd ember]

make a new game mode class and use that instead

[sturdy garnet]

so once i have made my GunBase blueprint where would i go from there? should i get the basic assault rifle model and when it comes to the shooting code would i copt paste it from my character to the gun itself?

[quartz pawn]

doesn't work

idk what the hell is goin on

[odd ember]

so how did this work?

[quartz pawn]

I changed it to one of my other gamemodes and it worked

[odd ember]

make a new class based on that class and see if it works

[quartz pawn]

well wait

I am changing the pawn

and it changes

[odd ember]

ah

the pawn shouldn't have impact on your game mode though

although it could be that for some reason in your game mode it stayed zero'd out

[quartz pawn]

the player controlled doesn't work still

[odd ember]

I can't see your setup so I don't know why

[quartz pawn]

what do you need to see

[odd ember]

the game mode overrides of the game mode that works versus the one that doesn't work

[quartz pawn]

oh

[haughty nymph]

Im trying to save the current ammo if i switch from weapon with a weaponmaster and the weapons are child actors of it

[odd ember]

show code

[haughty nymph]

of what

[odd ember]

whatever it is your question is

[haughty nymph]

the code from the weapon switch

[odd ember]

you should know what your problem is

I can't tell you what it is

[haughty nymph]

my weapon switch if i switch or drop the weapon the ammo count reset back to the begin value

[odd ember]

store ammo count on character, not on weapon?

[haughty nymph]

ok

[haughty nymph]

it dont work

i test it but the value keep reseting

[tacit briar]

@odd ember@maiden wadi so i tried different things

the remove prefix does not let me run the restart button in PIE

however it works find when i launch it to my VR headset

just that the background of my menu and the interaction widget do not exist in the "launch" game but do in the PIE game

its just i need to click as if it was there

but thanks a lot even if i can't run it in PIE

[trim marsh]

Exist some variable to change the brightness and affect all the entire game?(level, widget), in general , screen

[sturdy garnet]

When i am shooting my trace for some reason starts from the middle of the ground at a wall

[desert juniper]

Have you checked out the FPS template?

[odd ember]

show code

[desert juniper]

look to see how it handles shooting

[sturdy garnet]

Okay so using line traces i mixed some old and new code ive done and it works just gotta see what happens when i add the gun model itself

[tacit briar]

ok this is gonna be a really stupid question but how do i call my trigger box from persistent level?

[unique wyvern]

is it possible to change the precision of the nav mesh in real time from blueprint or is it fixed when you set it in editor?

if so how

[odd ember]

it's not stupid. there is a way

is your trigger box a volume or a brush?

[tacit briar]

its a capsule

[odd ember]

select your capsule in world

go to the level blueprint

right click

[tacit briar]

Ooooo

[odd ember]

add event > pick OnBeginOverlap

[tacit briar]

thats how it was

i tried that but in the blueprint of the capsule

instead of in the world

thanks

Am I able to call it in another blueprint as well?

[odd ember]

no

the level blueprint has special properties for that kind of stuff

but

you can handle blueprint communication

[tacit briar]

Because i want to unhide it when the goal is met

[odd ember]

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

[tacit briar]

but i can just create a custom event in the level blueprint and call it when goal is met?

[odd ember]

watch that video

[tacit briar]

ok

[novel rock]

I tried to follow this but I'm not getting a plane. I was able to make a triangle.
https://80.lv/articles/building-procedural-art-tools-in-unreal-engine-4/

[sturdy garnet]

i imported it for the models and the gun just never came across?

[winter garnet]

Hey, how would you do runtime surface snapping? Think of The Sims, where you can place objects on the floor and it automatically detects and snaps the object to it.

Do you guys know of any plugins which contains just this functionality or something?

[quick lark]

Is there any way to hide gizmos in the blueprint viewport? I can't see anything 😦

The "Show" dropdown doesn't exist in the blueprint viewport

[odd ember]

g

[quick lark]

Thanks for the response. I'm pressing G and nothing happens

[hollow gorge]

g worked for me if clicked in the preview window

[zealous fog]

Go to the drop down menu in the preview editor window and press show gameview

It will also say which shortcut

In case you have a different keyboard layout

[quick lark]

Which dropdown menu?

[desert juniper]

if you don't start with the third person template, then I don't believe importing the first person later on gets you the gun

either start with the first person template to begin with, or create a new first person template project, then migrate the files over to your current project

[icy dragon]

Yes, you will get the template gun, if you adding the template with Add Feature or Content Pack

[desert juniper]

I've done it before, and all it included was the first person BP without the gun

I had to migrate over the gun from a regular first person template
(whoops, wrong reply to)

[amber stirrup]

Hi i know that probably is a stupid question but right now we are working on source control with a development team and there are some programmers that pref cpp and some that preff blueprints there is a way to code things on cpp and others on blueprints?

[zealous fog]

In the preview editor window

[manic vessel]

Quick and Possible easy problem. Im Trying to detect what My held weapon is facing up In the world. I used actor up vector and forwards vector of the weapon mesh and did a DOT product . But Its not working because I think I really need the World up vector . and not the actors up vector. How can I get that?

Expose to spawn

Basically this is not working . How can I tell when my weapon is pointing up

think isolve it

Vector up

[vestal acorn]

Is there a way to set a key value inside a timeline with parameters inside the event graph? Trying to have this exposed to user so he can set how long the timeline will play instead of hardcoded to one value

I think this might solve as a workaround if anyone is interested

[novel rock]

I figured it out. you half to put a value in

What is this?

[runic parrot]

Hi! does anyone know how to add a widget to viewport at the center point? (i'm not editing the widget, but rather creating a new widget and adding it to viewport)

[odd ember]

get screen resolution * .5?

[keen goblet]

That's a Vector+Vector node with the second vector split. Any pin on a node for a struct, or data type with multiple values, can be right-clicked and split into its parts. Once split, you can right-click to recombine. It's like a shortcut over using BreakVector or MakeVector.

[novel rock]

thanks

[keen goblet]

You can absolutely do that. For example, you can make C++ functions that are callable in BPs and you can make a BP out of a C++ class. I think this stuff only works in one direction, C++ -> BP, but I'm not certain

[keen goblet]

SnapToGrid can help you there. Doesn't literally implement the snapping, instead returning the snapped result of an input value

[tawdry surge]

It is only one way. C++ -> BP

[novel rock]

Why doesn't this work?

[runic parrot]

Just did it with set anchors (0.5 all) and set aligment in viewport (0.5 on all)

[odd ember]

you can't call the construction script manually like that

[novel rock]

how do you test stuff?

[odd ember]

click play in editor?

[novel rock]

https://tenor.com/view/really-what-seriously-wow-dissapoint-gif-5759942

[odd ember]

formulate your question in a way that makes sense

or suffer the consequences of banter 😎

[novel rock]

I would like to be able to make changes to the Blue print actor class script while the game is play like adding and subtracting 1 from an integer variable that is set to 3. Using a key stroke

[odd ember]

what is the particular class you're doing this in?

[novel rock]

Actor class

[odd ember]

that's not telling me anything. I would suggest you start with learn.unrealengine.com

[novel rock]

thanks 👍

Is it posable to use this without assigning it to Engine - Input in an actor class BP.

What can i not use keys or button press actions in actor classes because it need to be in a passed player character controller.

[sturdy garnet]

i have animated my character to move his entire body depending on where i look however this is rigged to the premade 3rd person controller, how would i translate this to my main character?

[tacit briar]

Whenever i use Load level to open a 2nd VR level, it won't let me teleport in it, i just have a glowing blue stick going out of my hand instead

Is there something im missing?

okay i was dumb

i was loading the game starting on the 2nd map which somehow didn't let me tp when i was loading the 1st map from it

[sturdy garnet]

this is a reference to the 3rd person character how do i get these nodes to work with my fps controller?

[tacit briar]

Would there be a reason why i wonuldn't let me open a level, unless i started on that level before?

For example, I have a teleporter that takes me from Map1 to Map2

However if I launch the game on Map1 and try to teleport I get teleported back to Map1

But if i launch from Map2 and try and teleport to Map1 it works

then if I again try to launch from Map1 and teleport to Map2 it works

[dawn gazelle]

Does the FPS Controller have the booleans "Jump Button Down" or "Crouch Button Down"?

[calm vale]

anybody active rn?

i need some help on a hopefully simple script please

[sturdy garnet]

i have created animations, when running he runs and jump he jumps but when i look around he stays looking forawrd... anyone know why

[fiery gate]

I'm very new to blueprint and am trying to possess pawns based on the number pressed by a player. I followed this https://docs.unrealengine.com/4.27/en-US/InteractiveExperiences/HowTo/PossessPawns/, then wanted to implement it in a way where I could add n pawns to an array and automatically assign the numbers. The possession appears to work as the camera switches, but the pawns are unable to be controlled, where have I gone wrong? The pawns are the default SideScrollerCharacter

[brazen merlin]

maybe you need to unpossess the previous pawn

[fiery gate]

Unless I've done this incorrectly, no change to outcome

[brazen merlin]

that doesnt look wrong... but im not too sure

when you swap, do any pawns response to input?

[fiery gate]

Can you elaborate, I'm not sure I understood the question? When I swap, the camera changes to the relevant pawn, but no input does anything, nor does the pawn perform any action

Pawns are also inactive before I've pressed any keys right on the start & don't respond to input

If I disconnect the 'Any Key' to make it run as normal, the default pawn moves as expected

[brazen merlin]

alright, so it sounds like you can control a pawn when you dont run this code, and i was wondering if after switching pawns (assuming the first pawn is controlled when you start) that any pawn responds to input

maybe the any key even is consuming the input, meaning its firing and not allowing other inputs

it is Any Key afterall

what about testing it with a different input?

[fiery gate]

I think that might be it, that makes a lot of sense

That was the issue, changing the input to 2 allows me to move and switch to the 2nd pawn as expected

Do you have any suggestions for how to handle input in a way that won't block other inputs? & if not, tysm for the help. I really appreciate it

[brazen merlin]

select the event, there are some checkboxs in its details

[fiery gate]

Deselecting 'consume the input' allows me to move, but also stops the possession from functioning

[brazen merlin]

ah ok, so i think i have an idea - because you want to press any Number key right?

[fiery gate]

Correct

[brazen merlin]

im thinking you make an input action in the project settings, you've done this before?

[fiery gate]

There's a first time for everything :p

[brazen merlin]

lol ok, well, its good to learn anyways. In your project settings is a section called Input

there are some Input Axis and Input Actions mapped there

MoveForward for example

so you can make inputs here and then define which keys would call this input event

[fiery gate]

Create an action mapping 'Numbers' then add number keys to it, then instead of using anykey use the numbers input action?

[brazen merlin]

for example, you make a new Action called Sprint and then call that so that whatever the input is can be changed there - essentially avoids hardcoding inputs

yes, thats what im thinking because you should still be able to get the input name

and since its just the numbers, your other inputs should work as normal

[fiery gate]

Will give that a go, thanks again, it would have taken me ages to figure that issue out on my own :p

[brazen merlin]

lol, saves you from making 10 input events

[fiery gate]

All working 👍

[normal stream]

requesting a quick sanity check for best practice:

• I have a mechanic where player [does something], and that something is expected to function the same way no matter what level they're on in the game.
• The thing that's being modified is the world (spawn rate, enemy types, etc), it'd be best to do that in the Game Mode BP, as opposed to each individual Level BP, right?

[paper fable]

Has anyone gotten scenecapture2d additive composite mode to work in Ue5?

[proper wyvern]

Is there a command to disable all Slate UI?

[brazen merlin]

believe so, game mode data does get cleared between level loads, so if you're keeping track of something that needs to be known between levels, store it in game instance

[normal stream]

cool; I'm still learning the absolute basics, so just trying to fix those practices in my mind.

[brazen merlin]

if thats the case, i would recommend not using level bp, but if you have stuff in there already dont worry about. Maybe better to think that if you are finding it hard/annoying to work in level bp its because its not great to 🙂

[normal stream]

Nah I haven't even started messing with the implementation of the mechanic yet

i'm like at design-doc/pseudo-code/doing tutorials level

[brazen merlin]

ah

[stray moat]

how would I make sure my health dosent go beyond zero

[icy dragon]

Clamp

[trim matrix]

how can i append string "0" everytime I make tick.?

[brazen merlin]

wha?

[trim matrix]

oh shit i meant how can i append a break line on string

i have bunch of zeroes and every ten zero i would like to break the string to a new line

[brazen merlin]

these are generated 0s?

[trim matrix]

yes

I know i could just Shiftenter new line but yeah this zeroes come from my tick

[brazen merlin]

i think you'd be making a new line by measuring the length since it is on tick

[trim matrix]

=

?

I want make a new line automatically to string/text ? how to do?

[brazen merlin]

havent tested

[trim matrix]

dont work

tried that

[brazen merlin]

why doesnt it work?

[trim matrix]

it dont break the string to new line

just continues

[brazen merlin]

you did shift+enter in the append?

[trim matrix]

no. 😄

yas it works now 😄

[solid rapids]

Is there a way to bind events to an event dispatcher from inside a blueprint function? I want to have 2 functions which bind events to different dispatchers so that other classes don't have to deal with the underlying events and can just use the corresponding dispatchers

[brazen merlin]

yes, use CreateEvent

[solid rapids]

Okay, that might work.

But is there a way to bind events which I've created beforehand without creating new ones?

[brazen merlin]

what do you mean? CreateEvent lets you point at existing events

[solid rapids]

It does?

[maiden wadi]

It's just badly named. Should be read as "Create Binding For Event"

[brazen merlin]

yes. drag off from your bind event delegate and search for CreateEvent

[brazen merlin]

or as "create delegate"

anyways, it gives you a dropdown to choose the event

[solid rapids]

Ahhh alright

[brazen merlin]

if the event passes any data, then only matching events will show up

[solid rapids]

Thank you

[solid rapids]

It's literally named "Create Delegate" if you hover over the Create Event node

[brazen merlin]

lol

[solid rapids]

How that got lost in translation will forever be a mystery

[brazen merlin]

bp noobs dunno what a delegate is i guess

[solid rapids]

tbf I didn't until a week ago

UE's event handling system is very weird to me

[brazen merlin]

then i wont suggest bp interfaces

[maiden wadi]

Interfaces are the devil.

[brazen merlin]

disagree

[maiden wadi]

People misuse them far too much rather than creating correct hierarchy for things.

[brazen merlin]

oh for that reason...

i dunno, let em, even if its wrong, at least they're learning

[maiden wadi]

🤷‍♂️ It's about as sensible as starting a 0.0001 timer to avoid ticking.

[brazen merlin]

you got me there

[violet wagon]

wait. I do this. . . . for things that will only need to tick for a few seconds at a time. . . should I stop?????????

also delay of 0.0 just executes next frame.

[maiden wadi]

When you create a timer that is 0.0001, you're saying you need this to run 10,000 times a second. So if you have 60 fps, you're ticking 60 times a second and that timer will evaluate 60 times a second, and every time it evaluates, it'll run your function 166/167 times each tick.

I'm not certain about the lower numbers like this, but I do know that 0.005, which is 200 times a second will run 200 times in a second even limited to 20 fps. It runs the function 10 times every frame.

[brazen merlin]

sounds like the math is basically 1/fps

[stray moat]

casting to crosshair widget but its not showing on my screen

[violet wagon]

oh. okay i should be fine then. idk about the really low numbers but 0.0 only runs once per frame, so thats my tick replacement

[gentle urchin]

So what exactly did you gain from it 😛

[brazen merlin]

weird, ive always used get delta time

[maiden wadi]

Personally. If you really want to tick something sometimes, and don't want to put in the infrastructure for creating temporary objects like a customizable UObject, just use a gate or boolean on tick. Or Timeline it.

[brazen merlin]

its too late, i already have delta timers everywhere

[gentle urchin]

If you've done good and wrapped delta time in a function, its a one place fix 😄

[jolly delta]

Hi. How can I make the game ignore this warning? I have intentionally set the root component's mobility to static so that it can't move. But everytime the game ends the message log comes up and uk its irritating. So, any idea?

[gentle urchin]

stop trying to move it if its not ment to move😛

[jolly delta]

its meant to move until it hits the box

[maiden wadi]

There are other ways to stop something from moving besides setting it's mobility.

[gentle urchin]

^

[jolly delta]

like?

[maiden wadi]

Mobility is largely an optimization setting for level designers. Affects lighting and networking code in places.

[jolly delta]

i see

[maiden wadi]

The ball seems to have a ProjectileMovementComponent?

[jolly delta]

yeah

[maiden wadi]

Try StopSimulating on the PMC

[jolly delta]

Damn. Worked well without any warnings. Thanks.

[brazen merlin]

damn i hate when things work without more issues

[gentle urchin]

tehe

you like it to be more challenging ?

[brazen merlin]

lol, the joke would be that i like it when it happens to me but not others, but i think the better one is that im too accustomed to the feeling that it shouldnt just work without another problem creeping up 😆 at least a few times

[gentle urchin]

at least. Very common in my programming currently 😛 Atleast 2-3 times before i get it right

Underestimating the issue, quickfixing it instead of thinking it through, then ending up using more time than the actual fix would've taken if i just stopped for 2 seconds

[brazen merlin]

thats what im cracking up at

[wide linden]

Does anyone know how to stop a delay with an input?

[brazen merlin]

use a timer lol?

[wide linden]

i tried using a do once node

https://gyazo.com/0ff20d4faec234195c2d42786cdd69b4

so the event will end?

awsome ty

[brazen merlin]

you ever use a timer before?

[wide linden]

i have not

[brazen merlin]

check out some vids on it

[wide linden]

will do thank you

[jolly delta]

why isn't ai move to working

[brazen merlin]

you got navmesh in your level?

[jolly delta]

yes

[brazen merlin]

dunno, show code?

[brazen merlin]

try it on begin play instead of tick?

wait hang on, some else is wrong

i mean, you shouldnt call it on tick, but theres something else

you gotta plug in the pawn that you are telling to move

that one is a little weird because there's no controller reference though, but it exists so..

[jolly delta]

A reference to self doesn't work

[jolly delta]

still didn't work

[brazen merlin]

yeah i would think you need controller, but im not familiar with that specific version

[wide linden]

yeah timer isnt what i needed

im trying to stop a delay with an input not start something with input

[brazen merlin]

id suggest using Move to Actor but you need to disable context sensitive

[wide linden]

like say a teleport takes 5 seconds how do i cancel the 5 second

if i move or sprint

[brazen merlin]

well you start a timer like you would start a delay. what comes after the delay would be tied to an event instead. The return value on a timer is its handle, which you can get and check to see its remaining time as well as pause or clear it before it first the event, therefore aborting the code that would fire if the timer expires

so if you move or sprint, you check to see if that timer handle exists, and if it does, clear it

[wide linden]

alright il look more into it i may be using the wrong timer

[brazen merlin]

timers are a bit different to setup than a delay

[jolly delta]

didn't work

[brazen merlin]

hmm weird, i use that all the time, works just fine

[jolly delta]

damn

[brazen merlin]

might be when its called, or the class its called in, or maybe the thing it should move to doesnt exist at the time it is called

[maiden wadi]

Is Ball an AI controlled Pawn?

[chrome fractal]

Can we add data into an array like this.

[maiden wadi]

Nope.

[chrome fractal]

Why?

Can you please explain.

[maiden wadi]

You copied a struct, and added an index to that copied struct's array.

I mean, technically you added it to an array, but not the one you wanted.

[chrome fractal]

Can you tell how can I get the reference of the original array?

[maiden wadi]

Altering a TMap in blueprint is a nightmare. Your best choice is to copy the original struct, delete it from the map, create a new struct with the changed values and add it back to the Map with the same key.

[chrome fractal]

OK thankyou so much. you helped me alot

thanks again.

[willow phoenix]

@chrome fractal i would create a new bp type "object" where i can store these arrays and add simple functions that i need to access my data.
conststruct object of class "datathingy" -> promote to variable -> use my simple functions to controll all my data

object oriented programming, your bp stays a lot cleaner and you do not have to use structs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HpUhfnHCENQ&t=599s

[maiden wadi]

The issue there had nothing to do with Structs. The issue is TMap in blueprint.

You can alter structs just fine. SetMembersIn function allows the setting of specific properties.

[wicked shoal]

Im trying to format Text in a UI element like so 00:00:000 (a lap timer) but what is the best way to approach it? i seem to be unable to keep the 0's as it currently just does

"1:43:120" (for example)

[maiden wadi]

The case would be identical without a struct if you just had a map of String/Integer. You still cannot alter that integer without overwriting the who entry.

[wicked shoal]

that's what i currently have yeah.

[wicked shoal]

oh wow. had no idea that existed!

thanks @maiden wadi it works as i hoped it would now.

[gentle urchin]

that ms accuracy is gonna suffer 😛

[maiden wadi]

Why for?

Only a 1000 of them in a second, you can't display more than 999 of them before it reverts to zero.

[gentle urchin]

wasnt it a case just a few days ago, where someone figured out it only reported like 3 different results on the last digit?

guess it matters very little anyways tho

if that were the case one could just do a rand(0..9) on the last digit 😛

nobody would ever know

Unless... you tell them

[maiden wadi]

I think I remember that vaguely. I think that was a fluke with their framerate.

[gentle urchin]

Ah, could be

some smoothing on or something

[maiden wadi]

Wonder if I can repro that.

Hmm. No can do. But if I remember right, that was a float he was using. I'm pulling ms directly from UTC::Now, which has precision in ticks to 100 nanoseconds.

[wicked shoal]

it's gonna be for a small game for my internship that they will add proper scoreboards too so random last numbers isn't gonna cut it haha.

[gentle urchin]

I'd only use random if the alternative was some fixed 3 step value 😄

If the real thing works, then that is great

[normal adder]

I'm wondering how to approach "missions" in the right way, specifically things that are spawned for the mission at different stages, like objectives or area triggers. Would it be better to place them in the world and deactivate them at begin play, and activate when needed? Or would it be better to spawn them in at the point they are needed?

[maiden wadi]

I think that really depends on the context. If they're static missions, sure, place them in the level or whatever. If you have dynamic missions where places can randomize or whatever, probably best to stick with that model even for static missions and reuse the same code with one randomizable point.

[normal adder]

I see, thanks!

[odd ember]

a mission manager is generally used

whether that's a component on the player, an actor in the world or a subsystem is up to your needs

[warped spindle]

I made it work by disabling Android device profile selector. Now i can control those settings from menu.
I have only one problem now with those settings. I don't know how to control sg.resolutionQuality. it's set to 50 %
I set it from device profiles ,but it's still 50%. I Tried to put note that controls that ,but i don't find that node. There only "set screen resolution" and " get screen resolution" and that's not controling the Percentage of the screen ,just the XY of the screen.

[normal adder]

And that then activates mission related things as needed right? How does that work specifically though? I just tried it with an area trigger, setting "actor hidden in game" in the begin play and then a branch that checks if it's visible on the overlap event but it still goes ahead and triggers when the player enters. Are there better ways to disable and enable blueprint actors?

[maiden wadi]

Visibility != HiddenInGame

Similar outcome, but two different settings.

[odd ember]

you would put into the mission manager things that you would consider for your missions or objectives. think about how a mission is structured, then how an objective is structured etc.

it's more design work than actual implementation at this stage

it's how you would want your missions to be

[normal adder]

Yeah I have that part together but it's all in the level at the moment, so you can trigger part 2 before accepting the mission for example. Now I'm looking for ways to have it all disabled in the beginning and then enable them section by section depending on how far the player has gone through the mission

[odd ember]

okay, is it just for one level or is it a system you want for more levels?

[normal adder]

It's an "open world" area where you can start missions like in GTA 3 - You enter a circle, see a cutscene and then get your objectives marked. So for example I'd imagine it to work like this: You start the mission, get told you need to go to a location to pick up some scattered packages. When you start the mission, the trigger for the area is enabled. Once you reach it and trigger it, the packages get enabled. Once you collected them, the area trigger for where you need to take the packages gets enabled.

This all works already, but it's all active from the beginning, mission running or not

[odd ember]

so if you need something like that and you have multiple missions available I'd consider a systemic approach. from the sounds of it the design needs more work

[normal adder]

I'm working on a prototype right now that's just supposed to showcase 3 different types of missions. For my current use case it would be enough already to just have it all disabled at the start, then enable the gameplay elements of the next mission section as the player reaches them. But I'm not sure how to properly deactivate and re-activate blueprint actors that have been placed in the environment.

[odd ember]

I mean you're just setting yourself up for more work

but it's up to you

you can use event dispatchers on actors in the level blueprints as events

that's generally how the level blueprint is meant to be used

[hollow gorge]

since you're already talking about event dispatchers:
Probably a super easy question but I'd like to understand it properly: For what reason would one use Event dispatchers over Blueprint Interfaces for communication?

[maiden wadi]

Many. Interfaces are most often a patch to bad hierarchy considerations and what people replace casting with. Dispatchers are entirely different.

[odd ember]

interfaces generally are used for something that goes across several hierarchies. so if you had a Use() function on an item and would want that same functionality to exist for NPCs, that's where an interface would be valid

event dispatchers are a form of indirection that allow for subscribers to register (bind) to an event. when that event is called, the subscribers are notified

the dispatch caller does not know who the subscribers are (by design)

[stray moat]

hello I would I do a shield before my health is taking away I already have a system where my health is take away already

[odd ember]

event dispatchers also allow for dynamic runtime typing, so you can register and deregister subscribers as you go

this isn't possible with interfaces

[normal adder]

I'm not sure what you mean by that. What design needs more work? The approach to the showcase missions in this prototype is all multi-step "quests" a la "Go somewhere, when there, do something or collect something after which you're told where to go to and do something next". A systemic approach would certainly make sense especially when adding more missions later, but I have no idea where to start with that or what to even look for. Googling "unreal 4 mission manager" doesn't turn up anything useful other than a bunch of marketplace plugins. Can you give me some starting points of how you'd do it and by what manner I would have mission objectives activated and deactivated in the world? (Goes back to my original question about having it all there from the start but disabled, or spawned as needed). Still a bit confused by the whole thing.

[odd ember]

performance wise interface calls are more expensive as well

[odd ember]

@normal adder I already said this before and I don't want to repeat myself. these are the questions you should be seeking to answer

[hollow gorge]

@peak wedge thank you, that makes it much clearer.

[odd ember]

I also mentioned how you could use event dispatchers in actors to activate them or deactivate them from the level blueprint

[normal adder]

Yes but it was my understanding that you were saying that was not the best way to do it, so I was asking what you meant instead. If that's what you meant then fair enough, misunderstanding.

[odd ember]

it's not the best way, but it depends on what you want to do. is it a prototype that you have to get ready immediately? is it a long term project where you have to scale this concept?

I'm just telling you how I would approach it

[candid nest]

Hey no obsticle and coin spawning in my map they are spawning when 2 tiles meet any lead how can i fix thia

[hollow gorge]

@odd ember and @maiden wadi thank you for taking your time to answer our (often silly) questions in this channel ❤️

by just reading the most common questions and answers of this channel, I could learn a lot already

[odd ember]

if only everyone had that approach 🙂

[hollow gorge]

also sorry if I forgot other helpers, it's just the names who stuck out the most to me personally

[trim matrix]

@maiden wadi Hey man! We talked yesterday about the variable thing - and what you talked about doing (making the var local to the function) worked superb! Only caveat now is that because it is being updated on tick, the list view resets so quickly I can’t even press anything lmao

I still want to run it on tick, but do you have any suggestion to make it so I can actually click on something 😂

[gentle urchin]

Not run it on tick^

[wary tinsel]

hey guys! I'm using a 'back' input on the player controller to navigate back in my menu. The problem is, suddenly it stops working, if I put a print right after "pressed" (from the input action) it prints nothing, what could be the problem?

[hollow gorge]

just the thought about running any code on tick is scary 👻

[odd ember]

when exactly does it stop working? can you describe the scenario?

[trim matrix]

[gentle urchin]

It can make sense to run things on tick, but it should usually be supported by a better reason than "i want to"

[maiden wadi]

To clarify my earlier comment, Interfaces became popular in blueprints because of some people didn't bother to understand how Unreal handles loading objects into memory. On my phone, so not in a good spot to fully elaborate. In short you don't have to have higher levels of pointers to call interface functions, so you avoid casting. You also avoid loading the same heavy objects being always loaded by having correct hierarchy and base classes to cast to. As CE pointed out, both have no real correlation to dispatchers.

[trim matrix]

The reason is because my event dispatchers do not work and I need to keep my list view updated almost in real time

[wary tinsel]

Example. I press start to pause the game, I select options. I go back and it works, if I press back again it doesn't work anymore, which would be ok haha but it's not printing even this 😦

[odd ember]

are you saying that my GetAllActorsOfClass into a foreach loop using GetAllComponentsOnActors into another foreach loop on tick is wrong??

[maiden wadi]

Make a setter function. Use that to add to the array, then update the widget after.

[odd ember]

select the inputaction event and look in the details panel. there should be an option to execute while paused

[gentle urchin]

Wouldnt it make sense to get the repnotify's up and running instead?

[wary tinsel]

ticked of course

[gentle urchin]

Only if you dont do Super::tick. Then its all fine

[trim matrix]

I am quite confused 😂

[odd ember]

ah I see, I misunderstood the question. I believe this has to do with which widget is focused

so once you click back and close or hide the widget, you need to bring focus back to the previous widget

[maiden wadi]

Only a few reasons. Game paused, other actor is consuming this event. Widget has used on key down and returned handled, or your input is set to uionly

[wary tinsel]

but should still print the pressed

can be I put a disable input somewhere?