blueprint

[gentle urchin]

Cover up? Yes

[fickle dune]

Correct it?

lol

[random plaza]

the reason this shit happens is i have an every tick line trace to tell if something's in my crosshairs

[gentle urchin]

By the amount of it, it looks like its trying to be accessed on tick

Trace has an out bool

Telling you if it hit anything at all

[maiden wadi]

On a side note. Traces have their own boolean that tells you if this trace hit anything. Always good to branch on first before testing the hit results.

Yeah, what Squize said. 😄

[fickle dune]

I made an inventory system using a tutorial on youtube and got it working, and I also did a shop using a tutorial, now the issue here is that when I enter the Shop and exit it, I can no longer enter my Inventory, it just freezes my character and the mouse cursor is visible, as if it ignores the Widgets from being created, but this ONLY happens after I entered the shop and exited it.
Any help would be greatly appreciated and i can provide with screenshots if needed

[gentle urchin]

Post the code for entering/exiting shop pethaps

Perhaps

[fickle dune]

oki

[gentle urchin]

Might give us a hint of what we're looking at

[fickle dune]

Ok launching unreal

[maiden wadi]

Inventory opening as well. Sounds like part of it is running and the other part isn't.

[gentle urchin]

Ye^

[spark steppe]

ok, i see at least 2 smart people are around, gotta repost this: #blueprint message

the problem is an actor component (no matter what kind, scene/mesh/...) can't be set to static
but when inheriting the blueprint, i can change it in the child 😕

[main lake]

Is it possible to make a Box Collision scale in the editor only upward and right and left but not downward using an exposed variable of type Vector please ?

Also how to make when you modify the exposed Vector variable it changes the scale of the box collision (still in the editor).

[spark steppe]

try to wrap it with a scene component to add a fake pivot, then scale the scene

[gentle urchin]

^ this

[spark steppe]

or do math

[gentle urchin]

I was gonna suggest math

But fake pivot is better

[spark steppe]

easier

better, idk

[gentle urchin]

Math would move it

Makes it hard to place :p

Offsetting it upwards by half its size

[maiden wadi]

My original guess would be UE5 fuckery. Seen a couple of mobility setting problems with UE5 so far.

Doesn't happen on 4.27.2

[spark steppe]

yea, it also doesn't happen on all actors for me, so there must be something thats causing it

thanks for looking into it

[gentle urchin]

Ue5 sounds plausible

No experience there yet

Gonna dl source in a month or two

[maiden wadi]

I'm not touching it. 😄 UMG and Slate are fragile enough without beta stuff blowing it up, and that's where most of my work is.

[main lake]

But how do you detect when I change the Vector variable in the editor to set the scale of the box collision to the one I set in the vector in the editor ?

[gentle urchin]

Are you on ea2 or source? Pure curiosity

[maiden wadi]

ConstructionScript runs when InstancedEditable values are changed.

[main lake]

Oh interesting, I thought construction script only executes once (when the game starts)

[gentle urchin]

Thats beginplay

[spark steppe]

ue5-main

[maiden wadi]

Technically a ConstructionScript can not run at game start too. If an object is placed in the level, it will not run the ConstructionScript. Spawned Actors will always run it.

Allows you to randomize stuff in the level editor, but not have it randomize when you load the level each time.

[spark steppe]

which can bite you in the butt

when it invalidates build lightmaps because of the construction script 😄

[maiden wadi]

I'm a big fan of Prefabricator so far. As far as free tools go, it's absolutely fantastic.

That and NiagaraUIRenderer.

[spark steppe]

later one is on my bucket list, too

but porting it to UE5 seems to be not trivial, so i have to wait for the author to do it

[maiden wadi]

Just to clarify with this, it only updates when in the level editor. It doesn't run the script again while in gameplay when one of those variables changes.

[main lake]

Thank you 👍 And for my question sent more than an hour ago, do you have an answer too please ? 🙂

[maiden wadi]

This?

[main lake]

Yes

[maiden wadi]

Do you need clients to know what zone the server thinks they're in?

First thing you'll need is a zone checking function. Write a function that gets overlapping zones to the pawn, and pick the best one.

If your clients don't need to know the updated zones at runtime, and it's just assumed, then it's as simple as GameMode just getting all playerstates from the GameState, and iterating over them. Getting their pawn and checking what zone the pawn is currently in.

If on the other hand you need clients to know this before the time is over, like a little display, then I would probably have the server version of the pawns do an update on overlap and end overlap. Run the same function from above to test which one they're in the best. Set this zone on the pawn's playerstate. GameMode can then gather playerstates in the same manner and run off of that.

[novel rock]

I tried playing "Standalone Game" mode but i still need to click on the game in order to aim the camera using the mouse after talking to an npc or when returning from the game menu.

[fickle dune]

This is the Shop exit button code

This is the toggle inventory code
If there is a way to show you the blueprints faster than me doing screenshots that'd be awesome lol

[main lake]

Like I just need a visual confirmation telling the player he went through the zone so he made his task (the task is to go on that zone) also there's a timer for the players to go to a zone.
Like for instance player must be in Zone A between 8:00 and 9:00 after 9:00 if some players didn't enter that zone they get punished.

[maiden wadi]

@fickle dune This is likely your problem.

[fickle dune]

How do I remove the widget without "removing" the widget, would remove from parent work?

[maiden wadi]

This HudCanvas is stored in the PlayerController. You've removed it from screen, and put a new one up, but I don't see anything setting that value in the PlayerController. So this reference in the controller is to a widget that still exists, but is no longer in the viewport. So you are adding your inventory back to where you intended, but where you intended to add it to isn't where you intended.

The shortest route to where you want to get, is to call RemoveallWidgets, and make a function in the controller that adds the HUD it already has back to screen, or recreates it and resets the pointer. Either way.

Then you can call that function in place of creating the new widget and adding it where you did in the shop code.

[novel rock]

Found it!. i need to set the game mode

[zealous fog]

I posted a question about blueprint communications and behaviour trees in #gameplay-ai if anyone here knows anything about that please see if you can help me 😅

[main lake]

@maiden wadi Like imagine this : It's a school game where you need to be in Class A between 8:00 and 9:00 AM if you're not there between these 2 times you get a red cross on your bulletin, same Thing for Class B be you have to be there between 9:00 and 10:00 AM if you're not there you get a red cross again, and after 3 crosses you get punished.

[maiden wadi]

Well, like I said, I would start with a function that determines your active zone. In this case it's actually much easier, because all you actually need is the required zone and a contains check on the pawn's GetOverlappingActors. Same check can be used locally and on server. Where you use it depends on you.

You could use it both on client and on server to set a playerstate value. Server can use that to do it's punishments when the timer goes off. UI can get the same value to display if the player is safe or not. Can be checked on a timer, or Overlaps/EndOverlaps, whatever.

[main lake]

the thing is there's sometimes where people have different places to go, like maybe Player 1 has to be in Class A for sciences but Player 2 has to be in Class B for English lesson both between 08:00 and 09:00 AM

[maiden wadi]

Doesn't change much. Just make server set it in their individual playerstates.

If your zones are replicated actors or whatever, then all you need is a pointer to one. Fast easy to use and compact replication to client.

[main lake]

Hold so I do nothing in the GameMode ?

[maiden wadi]

Sure, you still do the punishment check there. Doesn't need to hold any values though, it can get them straight from the pawn/playerstate

[main lake]

So do you confirm that any variable I create in my BP_Character are server sided right ?

[maiden wadi]

Any property you create anywhere can be server authoritive if you set it only on the server and make it replicated. Clients can still hack the value locally, but it won't do them any good. GameMode will get the value that the server set. Without an RPC from the client to set that value, client cannot affect what the server set.

[fickle dune]

How would I do that? sorry I'm a noobie lol

[maiden wadi]

After your RemoveAllWidgets, don't Create a new hud widget. Remove that CreateWidget node. Leave the AddToScreen there. Instead, Get your controller, and cast it to your controller class, get the hud widget you already have and add that to viewport instead.

[fickle dune]

okay that worked! thanks a bunch!

[hexed cloak]

Net Cull Distance Squared - If I want something to stop replicating at more than 5000 unreal units, would I do 25000000?

[fickle dune]

welp i spoke too soon as soon as I use my HUD it does it again lol

is that correct?

[maiden wadi]

Looks right. Where does it break now?

[fickle dune]

as soon as I add the "Target Player HUD" it breaks it doesn't show me the inventory after exiting the shop

but if I remove it, it works

actually even removed it doesnt work

I also have the shop keeper trigger that triggers the shop UI if you'd like to look at that

[maiden wadi]

Hmm. I'm uncertain. That is the only thing that would have broken current logic that I've seen. I would start putting in printstrings starting from your inventory toggle input keys. Print out each segment and find where it's not running correctly to add the inventory to screen.

[fickle dune]

https://blueprintue.com/blueprint/vgo9-_ju/

that's the shop blueprint trigger

[maiden wadi]

Nothing stands out. You're reenabling the state when exiting. Good to learn debugging habits though. Just put some printstrings through your logic starting from the input event through to the inventory widget creation.

[spark steppe]

Good to learn debugging habits though. Just put some printstrings through your logic

😄

nice authaer 😛

[tawdry surge]

Print strings and break points find 95% of my issues

[maiden wadi]

Blueprint debugging is infinitely easier with printstrings. Blueprint Debugger is a trashpile.

[spark steppe]

indeed, still funny out of context

[maiden wadi]

Amusingly, I end up putting a printstring anywhere I need to break anyhow, since it's usually at the end of a logic line... and you can't see pure node inputs from the node you break on.

[tawdry surge]

Don't have a problem with the debug filter tho, aside from it's always on no object

[spark steppe]

usually it jumps to the correct object if it hits a breakpoint

however, it's sometimes not showing variable content correct

which in the end makes it useless for 90% of debugging purposes

[tawdry surge]

Oh I just use it to make sure all my nodes are firing like I think they should be.. then I move to print strings and breakpoints to actually debug.
It's mostly just a plug/comms check

[fickle dune]

Ok fixed it!

it works perfectly now 🙂

[main lake]

@maiden wadi Is it possible to create a struct and put a boolean in it and when it's checked it opens a submenu to be able to put values in it like for instance :

HealthRegeneration? : Boolean
  - Amount to regen : Float -- The submenu starts here and only shows if HealthRegeneration? is true
  - Instant regen : Boolean

Please ping me if any answer 🙂

[maiden wadi]

Maybe. I vaguely skimmed over that, but it was definitely C++ area.

[main lake]

But I need it without doing c++ code 😦

[maiden wadi]

I dunno. I've never cared enough to look through. Editor modding is less of an interest to me than gameplay coding.

[main lake]

Do you know anyone in this discord who could know the answer ?

[fickle dune]

So now I gotta add an item to my inventory when bought, this is the code for inventory adding but it won't add it lol
It also wont compile because i gotta add something to the cast but not sure what tbh

https://blueprintue.com/blueprint/4q8-iqt9/

[odd ember]

the answer would most likely be no

[umbral ginkgo]

Any suggestions for my spawning code? I know it sucks

[odd ember]

how do you expect that to be answered

[minor pagoda]

Hi, does someone know how can i make a container that store "stats objects" and validate that the stats object does not have the same values? Like if i already store an "Defense stat object" i would not want another "Defense stat object" stored again

[umbral ginkgo]

not sure. I guess Im just wondering if it could be done better

[minor pagoda]

What i'm trying to achieve is a dynamic stats system, like most rpgs have

[maiden wadi]

It could definitely be done without an interface. Base classes are your friend.

[maiden wadi]

Personally. I would make a Map of GameplayTags to Floats.

[umbral ginkgo]

Whats a base class? Have never heard of it

[minor pagoda]

But what if i have an immunity stat rather than a float stat, like stun immunity

[maiden wadi]

A class that all of your AI inherit from. So you can cast to that and call a generic function on after spawning the AI. Base class can have some logic in it if you want, and children classes can also alter that or not.

[maiden wadi]

GameplayTag Value
PawnStats.Immunity.Stun 1.0

[umbral ginkgo]

How would I make the ai a base class?

[maiden wadi]

CanBeStunned? Return GetStatByTag input PawnStats.Immunity.Stun get value back. If Value > 0.0, return true.

[fickle dune]

Any idea how to do this? trying to add an item to my inventory through clicking a button, everything works as intended except it doesn't add it to the inventory

not sure what to input there in the cast, or if even the cast is needed

[maiden wadi]

Nothing. You need the inventory, not a Strawberry.

Inventory is likely on the Character. Unsure of where you have it.

[fickle dune]

Yes the inventory component is on the character

[maiden wadi]

GetPlayerPawn->CastToYourPawnClass->GetInventory

[fickle dune]

Probably the wrong way to do it because it didn't work lol
But made me feel like i was a real coder lol

i got it working lol

jesus im terrible at this but i love it

[minor pagoda]

Do you know how to create random gameplay tags for a sub-category?

[fickle dune]

okay im probably annoying at this point, but i forgot how to do this lol
So i'm trying to make it so you cant take this strawberry unless your health is below 100
Is this correct?

[hollow gorge]

You did: Health >= (larger or equal) 99 with that

A simple way to remember the ">" or "<" symbols would be to look at which side "expands" (greater) and which side "narrows" (smaller).

@fickle dune I'm quite new myself, but for what reason are you storing a character's variable in the game instance object? Is that how multiplayer works?

[main lake]

@maiden wadi I can't access my variable "Routines" in the player state to be able to set to true a boolean in the "Routines" variable, how can I do that ?

[tawdry surge]

How did you get the set node?

[main lake]

disabled context sensitive

otherwise I wouldn't get it, I just need to understand why it doesn't show it to me when I have context sensitive on

[tawdry surge]

Because it's not relevant to the thing you're pulling off of

What does it say if you try to connect the player state to the set node

[main lake]

I thought to be able to access it I just need a Player reference, then access it

si doesn't want to connect those

[tawdry surge]

Yeah.. what does it actually say

Itll tell you what its looking for

[main lake]

for the target or the Routines ?

[tawdry surge]

Target

[main lake]

Player State Object Reference isn't compatible with PS Classic Object Reference

got it

thank you

have to cast

[tawdry surge]

Np

[main lake]

Do I have to break the struct to set only 1 value or can I do it in another way ?

[tawdry surge]

Maybe, but it's usually easier to just split the pin

[rigid fractal]

hi, how could i make an object follow the cursor but at a distance from the player? like the fortnite build system
(i dont know much about blueprint yet, so if you can explain it in an easier way)

[tawdry surge]

Get the cursor position, project to world space, Set actor position to the cursor position with an offset. (-200 on X or whatever)

[main lake]

Is it possible to loop through a struct ?

[odd ember]

not in BP. generally structs should house read only static data

[main lake]

But I need to print all the values, what's the best way to do that ?

[odd ember]

print each individual value

[main lake]

I have 11 values, so I will use 11 print nodes ?

[odd ember]

yep

[main lake]

oh damn

[odd ember]

why do you need to print?

[main lake]

11 boolean values from the playerstate to check if my system works

[odd ember]

well good luck

[main lake]

x)

nevermind I found a better way 😉

[odd ember]

which is?

[main lake]

using the Format Text node

[odd ember]

interesting

I guess that could work

[main lake]

I just need to find how to make it multiple lines

[maiden wadi]

Shift+Enter

[main lake]

thank you

[maiden wadi]

@fickle dune It is not. GameInstance has nothing to do with Multiplayer. And you really should have the health in the character. If you need to save it between map loads, it should go in a savegame object.

[hollow gorge]

thanks for clarifying

[spark steppe]

authaer about the component mobility issue i had

you replicated the setup on 4.27?

e.g. class a which inherits actor, another class which inherits class a and adds a scene component?

[main lake]

Why casting to PS_Classic always fail here (the code is in my BP_Character)

[odd ember]

probably because self's player state isn't a PS_Classic class

[main lake]

How do I make PS_Classic the playerstate of the player ?

[hollow gorge]

I think you can only cast down and not up, maybe an issue with the way your hierarchy is set up

[odd ember]

I believe it's in project settings under Maps&Modes

[odd ember]

you can cast both ways

[hollow gorge]

ok good to know, another thing learned today

[maiden wadi]

@spark steppe I made an actor. Scene component>StaticMesh1>StaticMesh2. Made a child class of it. Could set mobility on all of the components in both classes.

[main lake]

Thank you 👍

[spark steppe]

the grandchild of actor has the bug, not the child

so actor => class a => class b with new scene/mesh component (can't change mobility)

if you have time and editor open, i would appreciate if you test that again

i'm digging through the source now, somehow thinking that it's an UI issue

[maiden wadi]

Which class had the components put in it?

[spark steppe]

grandchild of actor, so class b

and inheriting class b (which has the component) to class c, would then allow to change mobility of the component from class b

[maiden wadi]

So Hierarchy was AActor->ClassB->ClassC. ClassB had the components but couldn't set their mobility, Class C could?

[spark steppe]

no

Actor=>ClassA=>ClassB=>ClassC (then class B had the component)

there has to be one class between actor and the one which raises the problem

Actor => Animal => Sheep => RedSheep
now when adding a scene/mesh component to Sheep the mobility cant be changed

but in RedSheep you can change the mobility of the component which was inherited from Sheep

just wondering if the issue in Sheep shows up, so you can skip the redsheep

[main lake]

Somehow when I try to print the Morning Roll Call boolean value after setting it to true, it's true on the server, but when I try to print the values of the struct from the BP_Character, the Morning Roll Call boolean is still at false

[maiden wadi]

@spark steppe Huh. So it does happen in 4.27.2. That's weird.

[spark steppe]

thanks for testing

now i got you confused as well? 😄

https://answers.unrealengine.com/questions/407670/static-mesh-has-only-movable-mobility.html

thats the only really related thing that i found, and apprently it's like that since 4.11?!

how could they get away with that -.-

no static light baking for components of grandchilds of actor?! Oo

[main lake]

@maiden wadi any clue for my problem ?

[spark steppe]

xDDDD

oh boy, i found a fix...

nice one... go to a component which is set to static, rightclick the detail setting and copy that

then paste it on the broken component and paste

voila, you got a static one

[rigid fractal]

i tried to do this, but it didnt work

it moves the object when i move the character, not the cursor

and only moves in one direction

[tawdry surge]

That's inside the actor right?

[main lake]

@tawdry surge Could you check my problem above too please ? 🙂

[rigid fractal]

yep

[odd ember]

pinging people is frowned upon

[main lake]

sorry but I'm stuck and I need help 😒

[tawdry surge]

I don't mind but I don't really play with structs in BP they're weird for no reason

[odd ember]

#rules #2

[main lake]

Sorry

[marble tusk]

I'm no expert on this, but that "Task Validation" event is only executed on the server. That might have something to do with it

[main lake]

Yeah that's intended, but I thought GameStates are shared between client and server, so I don't understand why I don't have the same value from the print of the server and the print when pressing F

*Player State

[odd ember]

there's also a #multiplayer channel dedicated to precisely these kinds of questions

[main lake]

according to this image :

[marble tusk]

I really don't know about this stuff. That just stood out to me as a potential thing to look into

[tawdry surge]

@rigid fractal I'm not sure without doing it, but you might have to do something like line trace from the cursor position into the world.
Try printing the cursor's world position and see if its really registering changes when you move the mouse

[rigid fractal]

ok

[rigid fractal]

it changes yes, but it changes a lot more when i move the character, was that supposed to happen?

i solved part of the problem

it follows the character position, not the cursor

[tawdry surge]

Oh ok.. so its above you because you're adding to z.
And its following the character because the cursor's world position is gonna be at the camera. You'll have to line trace into the scene and use that position to have it move around in front of you

[rigid fractal]

hmm, makes sense

[rigid fractal]

using this?

oh, i believe what not because there it returns a boolean 🤔

[tawdry surge]

Right click the out hit and split the struct

[rigid fractal]

ok, now there are more options

[tawdry surge]

Out hit trace end will give to the end point of your trace

Bottom yellow pin

[rigid fractal]

right, and in the "start" and "end" pins i pass which values?

[tawdry surge]

Start is mouse cursor world position,
Get the forward vector, multiply by a few hundred, add it to the start position and make that the end point

[unique yoke]

Hello this is something I'm not familiar with having done yet. I am making a BP that just serves as a crosshair manager that swaps out and controls crosshairs from a 3rd party plugin that already has separate functions built into the HUD. I had a couple of questions.
1.) Which would make the most sense for a base class like this - just a default actor?
2.) How I would initialize and access the class I'm making since it's this abstract thing. Do I spawn a class in some way?

[tawdry surge]

You could actually do it without the trace and just use the math to set the actor position, but the trace will make it easier to debug

@unique yoke short answer is yes

[unique yoke]

I see a Spawn Actor from class node, that wants a spawn transform - but this isn't an actor that moves around. Should i be using something else?

[spark steppe]

why do you not do it on the HUD?

you can make a custom hud class

[unique yoke]

Part of it is how this plugin is setup - there is a custom HUD class we're already using, but logic within widgets/managers are usually handled separately from the HUD class. All the HUD class is really doing right now is initializing classes and declaring functions that trickle down to the widgets. The HUD is where I would be initializing/creating the crosshair manager - i just don't know how to do that

I didn't want to load the HUD class with a bunch of crosshair specific functions.

[spark steppe]

idk what you are planning, but isn't it just one function to swap the crosshair texture/material?

also the HUD can have actor components apparently, so you could make a actor component for the crosshair things

[unique yoke]

The plugin has several different functions we're using - basically, bunch of different logic that will be occurring to listen to weapon types, handle hit reactions on the crosshair, different player state (unarmed vs have weapon, reloaded, etc.)

Well, I should rephrase that - it doesn't actually handle the rules for what the functions do/are called - but that's what I'm working on atm.

yeah - i figured that's one route

[spark steppe]

that's the most clean route

you have the component where it belongs, on the hud

and you have all functions in a separate class, which keeps stuff organized

[unique yoke]

I blanked on the HUD being able to have a component. That's a good way to do it. Thanks!

[rigid fractal]

sorry, this seems complex to me haha
but it went more or less right, he is moving the object but just a little when he moves the cursor

[tawdry surge]

Nah, use the convertMouseLocationToWorldSpace as the start.
Then pull off the getActorLocation and get the forward vector. Multiply the forward vector by how far infront of the player you want the object to be.
Then add that to the convertMouseLocationToWorldSpace output and make that the end point

[rigid fractal]

wait, im going to multiply the value of the forward vector with the distance of the object, and this result i add with the World Location of the ConvertMouseLocationToWorldSpace and place the output to the "end" pin?

[tawdry surge]

Yep

[unique yoke]

What exactly is component activation? I assumed it was something simple like the component being dormant or not based on the active flag. However, my component seems to work fine with the Auto Activate Flag being set to false so either something's setting this in a higher class or it doesn't do what i think it does

[rigid fractal]

its the same as before, moving just a little

this forward vector node is the correct? is that there are 2

[tawdry surge]

Almost.
You want the forward vector of the character or the cursor. Not the actor you're moving

[rigid fractal]

nothing yet :/

[tawdry surge]

Try a bigger multiplier.. like 500 or 1000

And you can just plug the end point straight into the set actor location you don't need to modify it after the trace

[rigid fractal]

wow, now it worked

[tawdry surge]

Nice

[rigid fractal]

tyvm

sorry for anything

[tawdry surge]

You're good

If you wanna optimize, you can take the input of the trace end and plug that into the set actor location directly and get rid of the linetrace all together since you aren't actually using it

[rigid fractal]

alright, i will change this

[still delta]

Hey guys, looking for some help again. Attempting to set up debugs for a couple progress bars, but ran into a snag on my first setup. As it would appear, my action key (x), which will be used to update my first progress bar only ever updates the progress bar ONCE, and no more, no matter how many times I press it again. This code - I think - is exactly the same as the code I learned from one of the Unreal Learning courses, and yet for some reason doesn't seem to work on my personal project. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

[hollow gorge]

@still delta what's the initial value stored in your Player Experience variable?

[still delta]

I believe with that question I may have found my answer lol one sec...

The variable's value is 0

Player starts at 0 Exp, so I figured it would be best to leave it there

[brazen merlin]

it does fire everytime you press X. From these two graphs, i dont see anywhere that is setting your PlayerExperience variable

so it will always be 0+13.5

[hollow gorge]

yes, what conrad said. You don't set it afterwards

[still delta]

ohhh, i get it. add 13.5 to player exp then set player exp TO that

rather, set player exp to player exp + 13.5

[brazen merlin]

yeah, insert a Set PlayerExperience between X and UpdatePlayerExperience

or do the set in UpdatePlayerExperience

[still delta]

Got it working now, something so simple n it totally flew by me lol, thanks a ton guys!

[halcyon lynx]

Guys, I'm trying to figure it something out but I'm not finding answers
Here is the deal.

I need to have 2 different input maps. One for controlling the character, one for controlling the ship! 2 questions:

1. How can I have two different input maps?
2. How can I change between the 2 maps inside the game?

[foggy escarp]

You can simply add your inputs via project settings.
Using a boolian for IscontrollingShip you can turn on and off inputs. This way you can use a couple similar input options and it would still work.

[minor wolf]

is there a good way to check how obscured an actor is by another actor? like if i do a box trace and it hits something else but is not fully obscured, can i check how much is visible from the trace?

this sort of demonstrates what im asking. the top half of the actor on the left is unobscured from the actor on the right. would it be possible to get that unobscured section?

[outer pewter]

how can i make this to show when its below 1000 show it in meters and over a thousand show it in km and so on ?

[brazen merlin]

use a select node based on float amount

[outer pewter]

I TRIED making it like this but it didnt work i guess i only complicated it

[brazen merlin]

why doesnt it work?

[dawn gazelle]

It's probably because you're setting the value back to where you're getting it from. You weren't doing this in the first iteration.

[outer pewter]

oh so i shouldnt set it i should just devide it

[dawn gazelle]

Well, you're just displaying it, yea?

The value doesn't need to change if you're just trying to format it for display.

[outer pewter]

i ll try it thank you

i tried it but it changed to km after only 10 meters even though i divided it to 1000

i devided it to 100000 now

[gentle urchin]

100uu is 1m

Assuming you use the basic 1uu = 1cm

[outer pewter]

because the game count in cm so i divided m to 1000 and km 100000 and mega for 100000000

@dawn gazelle@gentle urchin i organized it into this and its working thank you

[vocal bobcat]

How reliable is delay 0.0? I'm finding GetController (target pawn) returns "none" on begin play unless i put a delay of 0 in before accessing it. This seems like a hack. I'd like to not use any delays if possible, not really sure why it doesn't work without it.

[dawn gazelle]

Use possessed instead.

[vocal bobcat]

👍 cool, ill try that

[outer pewter]

i have this for a prograss bar widget for a speed boost item but when you collect more then 1 it does show the number increasing but the prograss bar doesnt show decrease until it reach 5 what should i do

[still delta]

Guys, is there a way to get the reference of a player variable called into the UI? I'm having an issue where my progress bars arent updating correctly and I'm almost certain it's because of this code here (UpdateUIAccExp). I need it to update the percentage divided by the "RequiredExp" variable from the Player Character (Following Snip)

[violet wagon]

i do! I detect if a tile is occupied by using overlaps. my tiles are 50x50 cm so if a tile is occupied i put a box overlap on it thats 49x49. then for your case, id put a box overlap that is (attack range) units long/wide on the tile your actor is on. if its being overlapped, you have something in range.

[violet wagon]

Get owning player-> get controlled pawn->cast to your character

[gentle urchin]

Cant you just store a ref of each tile?

Overlaps seem... exessive

You already know the layout of tiles?

Every actor has a give size and location, and thus you know the state of each tile

[violet wagon]

not too sure how you set up your grid, but I assume its similar to mine. each tile is 50 units wide and the grid starts at 0,0,0. I just get the actor location, then round to the nearest 50th for the x and y, then I have the location where i can put my overlap.

[gentle urchin]

Dunno how taxing the collisions would be but they easily become a grotesque amount if you were to go beyond 8x13 (which already is 104 of them)

Compared to an array of 104 tiles containing a state of the tile

[trim matrix]

hey there, i am currently translating but when i try to change the language, the font is not updating, does anyone know how to resolve it, can anyone guide me with this

[icy dragon]

You can assign different font to certain unicode range in the same Font asset

[trim matrix]

how do i implement that? is there any video or article i can follow through ?

[icy dragon]

See "Sub Font Family" section
https://docs.unrealengine.com/4.27/en-US/InteractiveExperiences/UMG/UserGuide/Fonts/Overview/

[trim matrix]

thank you

[fervent vigil]

Hello/Good evening everyone, I come here to ask if anyone has an idea or knows how to go about making a jumpscare system like in the game Dead Realm? Examples: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLbAOZBxBSM Cordially.

[icy dragon]

Question first. Technically, what is jump scare?

[fervent vigil]

It s like death scene

Watch example video

[icy dragon]

I ask you that question, because "jumpscares" are more of visual execution than technical side of things.

[fervent vigil]

Yes I know that. It s for that I post this question

[still delta]

Morning everyone, looking for some help. My progress bar wont update to the correct value (Updates to full and remains there), and my text UI seems to update to values I don't understand either (first click of C updates to 0%, second to 5.4%, then 0, then 7.02, then 12.42, then 0, etc. Eventually surpassing 100% if I click C enough times before it resets back to 0 again). Essentially it was working fine when it was just the basic debug (update by received value until >= max (100)). But I tweaked it in hopes of being able to add remainder exp to the next level as the player "levels up". Now this is where I'm at xS Any help would be greatly appreciated!

PS. The Account Level text seems to update correctly and will update to the next level at the same time that the Level Percent text resets to 0. But that means obviously that my "remainder exp" isn't working correctly or something. Pls ping or dm me if possible

[livid vessel]

I have the problem that when I have 2 clients in standalone mode, the mouse pointer, when hovering over the window, is teleported to another point on the monitor. Does anyone have any idea about where it might be?

[graceful holly]

Can you map sprites to integers? I'm trying and i can't
i need to achieve this

[spark steppe]

@still delta you are aware that progress bar is 0 - 1 input range? so 1 represents 100%

[still delta]

Yes, I’m also pretty new to unreal (maybe two full courses in) so things do fly by me from time to time lol

I figured it had something to do with the code in the UI itself. Maybe that I’d need to divide the input (account exp) by the required amount before setting percent, but I’m not sure if I either tried it and it didn’t work or perhaps did it wrong to begin with so I left it as is, just unplugged the current acc exp pin

[outer pewter]

how can i show the UI behind the blur. its from a different widget i adjusted the zorder but didnt work

[brittle mortar]

hello how do i make falling object sounds in ue5

[odd ember]

there's an #audio channel

alternatively #metasounds

[maiden wadi]

Your image here looks like a Struct. UTexture2D, String, Integer

[meager spade]

@icy dragon

Sorry for ping but I asked you earlier about clothing with Skeletal Meshes

What's the best way to "inactivate" these if I for example have a character that has two layers of shirts, let's say one T-Shirt and one jacket. If it's cold the jacket will be shown if not it should be invisible. Just set the skeletal mesh to null and set the anim class to null?

[remote meteor]

if its a separated skeletal mesh component

you can always just hidden in game

i think

[meager spade]

Yeah but that would mean it's AnimBP is still running for no reason

[remote meteor]

hm if you stop the abp

[meager spade]

It's not only one character that has this, otherwise I think it would be fine

[remote meteor]

you cannot get back the same instance

when you enable the animation mode again

cus it creates a new instance when you do that

[meager spade]

I was thinking about keeping the component but just setting the mesh object to nullptr and anim class to none, that should work no?

[remote meteor]

yeah that should

[meager spade]

That should (at least in my brain) basically make the component dormant

[remote meteor]

just keep in mind that when you "reenable" it

the abp will be an entire new instance

[meager spade]

That shouldn't matter, the AnimBP is set to "follow/copy" the character AnimBP. I can't recall what it's called right now but I think you understand

[oak pecan]

Any idea why the rotation is glitching when going left right or backwards?

[meager spade]

Have you snapped the camera to follow whatever it's attached to's rotation?

Because it looks like the camera is follow every nudge of the head

[oak pecan]

I know

Even if I unlink it from the head it does the same thing

[maiden wadi]

Yeah. Need more context. This has nothing to do with the movement. The camera movement code, or something that it's attached to is fighting placement.

[remote meteor]

the camera arm probe channel ?

[oak pecan]

I removed the camera from the parent socket but nothing has changed

[maiden wadi]

There is code moving your camera, somewhere.

Hmm. May remove whatever the swaying affect is. If that fixes it, it may be that resetting while moving.

[oak pecan]

The effect was given by the camera that was linked to the head but even if you unlink it the problem persist

[maiden wadi]

Anything referencing the camera directly in the character?

[oak pecan]

I fixed it

It has the fact that the camera wasnt linked to the cameraboom and it was linked to the capsulecomponent instead

[maiden wadi]

That shouldn't cause that?

[oak pecan]

I dont know why it works

When its like this it works

Like this it doesnt

[maiden wadi]

O.o Normal FPS characters have the camera attached directly to the capsule. I feel like that might be some settings issue somewhere. Control rotation fighting or something.

[spark steppe]

authaer seen the workaround i came up with to avoid the component mobility issue?

[maiden wadi]

The copy pasting?

[spark steppe]

yea

[oak pecan]

It was the Use Pawn Control Rotation that was set to false

[graceful holly]

Ok i made a data table but i don't know how to use it

[maiden wadi]

What is the end goal with that?

[graceful holly]

this

[maiden wadi]

What is the correlation from the current level to the items like your pac-pellet?

[graceful holly]

Let's say at each level im spawning an actor but with a different sprite based on the level we are in

[maiden wadi]

Is there a direct correlation from level count to datatable entry?

[odd ember]

let's say that

[graceful holly]

each of these sprite give different amount of points, or at least is what i'm looking for

[odd ember]

make different actors that inherit from the same parent?

swap mesh and variables on each subclass?

[maiden wadi]

entry1 = level 1. Entry2 = leve2. ?

[graceful holly]

no, Or at least i think not i don't understand the question fully

[zealous karma]

Sorry for diving into the conversation, but would anyone be willing to jump in VC and help me figure out how to get a plugin working? Ive been stuck on this for a literal month and I crave death lol

[odd ember]

you're better off asking whoever made the plugin

[maiden wadi]

Or burning them and the plugin with fire if it's that hard to use. O.o

[graceful holly]

ok then yes, almost. Many of the rows are like that

especially the one i need to use

[maiden wadi]

I'm basically looking for how you want the level from your game mode to correlate to the items.

[graceful holly]

the game mode is spawning the actor, based on the current level the actor is rendered with a different sprite . When this sprite collides it gets "collected". I want to attach a different value to each of the sprites

i tried creating a map but i cant use spites as keys , only as values

for some reason

[odd ember]

make an actor class

create subclasses for each sprite type and add separate values for them

[maiden wadi]

He already has a datatable. Only need one class.

[zealous karma]

i did - sent money for 1 on 1 tutoring and then they stopped replying 🤷‍♂️

[odd ember]

sounds like a scam

[zealous karma]

your detective skills are legendary lol

[graceful holly]

yep, also i was alreading using a parent for that blueprint

[odd ember]

you can still use subclasses for this

since it's the way to store this type of data

but I mean whatever

do it your way

[grizzled plaza]

Hey everyone. Recently I’ve developed an Andriod game using UE 4-27. The game has two levels, a main menu, an intro movie, an outro movie and I added a storyline to the game so that it makes sense to the users. Then i packaged it up and I’ve been trying to upload it to PlayStore for about a month now. While doing so, I came across many errors, most of which I solved on my own with the help of internet resources. But now, I’m stuck at an error which I don’t know how to fix. I searched everywhere but couldn’t find the solution. Can anyone here, help me about this? This is what the error loooks like:

[maiden wadi]

This sounds like a pacman game, which sounds procedurally generated. Much easier with a single class. Otherwise you have to make a whole new table of subclasses.

[grizzled plaza]

You uploaded an APK or Android App Bundle which has an activity, activity alias, service or broadcast receiver with intent filter, but without ‘android:exported’ property set. This file can’t be installed on Android 12 or higher. See: developer.android.com/about/versions/12/behavior-changes-12#exported
Please help me out guys. This is very important to me.

[odd ember]

I'd say try #packaging

[grizzled plaza]

i did

[odd ember]

or #mobile

[maiden wadi]

Okay. You have two general choices. Either you can map the levels to the names of the datatable entries, or you can math it out. Which is why I was asking. If 1level = 1entry. Then all you need to do is get the RowNames array from the datatable, and use Level to get the index of the array, and use that to look up that row in the table.

[graceful holly]

this is not a pacman game is exactly pacman , it's my study project

[tawdry surge]

@zealous karma If you want one on one tutoring check out wyzant.com. Third party platform that handles the billing, and only after the session, so you won't get scammed like that

[graceful holly]

Ok i think i got it . can i DM you?

[grizzled plaza]

i packaged it in .aab format as apparently google play doesn't accept .apk formats anymore. i used the google PAD method to pack my .obb file inside my .aab file as shown in the official documentation of UE. but I can't get my head around this

[grizzled plaza]

please guys help me about this.

[odd ember]

this isn't the channel for this

use the channels suggested

[grizzled plaza]

oh i'm sorry. can you direct me to the appropriate channel?

[odd ember]

I did

read above

[odd ember]

also spamming the same thing in multiple channels will get you banned

[grizzled plaza]

i tried #mobile and #packaging .Thanks for the help.

[maiden wadi]

@graceful holly Don't really do PMs, but here. If you're looking for each level as a different fruit, you'd do this assuming that your datatable looks like this and your level starts at 0. If your level counter starts at 1, then add a -1 to either of these. The first assumes 1 fruit type per level. The second assumes 1 fruit type per three levels, so level 1,2,3 have cherry, level 4,5,6 have strawberry, etc.

[graceful holly]

I understand that, thank you

[unborn dove]

Can anyone recommend a Blueprints course? I've watched a few short tutorials on Youtube but for the most part they are just "do exactly what I do" instead of teaching it from the ground up to truly understand it.

[odd ember]

to truly understand it I would recommend trying to understand OOP

that will give you way more information than any blueprint tutorial will

[tawdry surge]

Dev addict is pretty good at explaining the purpose of what he's doing and how it applies to other situations

[trim matrix]

do you know where i can find the list of unicode range for different font?

[tawdry surge]

Google

[rigid fractal]

if i create a variable of type Actor, put a value and use the SpawnActor to create this object, if reset the value of the variable does the object also disappear?

[outer pewter]

my speed boost item progress bar only start decreasing when it reach 5 how can i make it increase when you pick up more than 1 item

[tawdry surge]

@rigid fractal no it's just a reference for the type of actor you want to make. Not a direct reference to the actor instance

[hollow gorge]

Read the official unreal documentation

[outer pewter]

its a speed boost item you can pick up more then one each one has a cooldown of 5 seconds when you pick up more the cd increase but the value in the photo is the percentage linked to the prograss bar so even if the speed boost item cooldown increase the variable is always divided by 5 so 5 is always at max so the prograss bad dont show its decreasing untill it reaches 5 then you can see its color decreasing

sorry for the bad explaination

i guess i didnt explain well

i have a prograss bar its min is 0 and max is 5 how can i make its maximum increase every time another item is picked up

[keen solstice]

Hey guys, I am new to arrays and I need some help if possible...
So I made a structure with multiple bools arrays inside of it to help me keep track of story progress(before, after and durning objectives), now I have made a NPC pawn and I need to check inside this structure for a match array name to check progress status...
I know I can use "for each loop" to check every array inside this structure but how can I catch one specific by the name of it? Can't find any node that seems to fit this purpose...
Hope you guys can understand what I am trying to do

[odd ember]

arrays don't support names

if you need that kind of functionality you need a map. but that is a different type of structure

[hollow gorge]

it's really hard to understand your question because of the way you write. Try to keep your sentences short and precise to avoid confusion. Also try to use proper terminology if possible.

[keen solstice]

My actor would contain a variable with quest name to check the information inside the structure, but as you guys sayd I probable shoud change this 😦

[outer pewter]

the more items i pick up the number of cool down increase but the progress bar doesn't show its decreasing until it reaches number 5 then the blue color start to decrease

[maiden wadi]

Lookup via FText sounds painful.

[dawn gazelle]

Progress bars go from 0 to 1 and that's it.
You divide by 5 at first since that is your first "max" value. 5 / 5 = 1 which means your progress bar is full.
What you probably want to do is have another value stored in your RunCharacter class called "MaxSpeedBoostDuration" and increase that by 5 whenever you pick up the item. You then need to pull that value from your cast node and plug it into the divide node in your function.

[outer pewter]

so i add it to the divided variable ?

[maiden wadi]

CurrentValue / MaxValue = a multiplier between 0-1

You use that to SetPercent the progressbar.

[outer pewter]

im confused but i ll try it out thank you

[outer pewter]

yeah i made it its working thank you so much

and sorry for not explaining well

[quick lance]

Is there a way to make a string table (or something similar) have a variable that I can manipulate inside of it? I'm looking for something like "You have {X} potatos in your bin" where I can store hundreds of lines like that and be able to insert the value i want at runtime. I'd rather not have to split the line up into multiple strings if possible.

[odd ember]

FormatText

[quick lance]

I'm looking for a data structure/data structure configuration.

[odd ember]

string tables exist

[quick lance]

Yes. I asked if there was a way for it to store a value that is defined at runtime.

[odd ember]

nope

but generally if you look at something like the FormatText node, it takes a variable and displays it inside the text. so you can mix static data with variables during runtime

[quick lance]

As I said in my original comment, I would prefer not to have to split the line into a bunch of substrings, as I'm going to be adding hundreds of lines.

[odd ember]

you're not

maybe take a look at the node first before making assumptions

[quick lance]

You are correct, thank you. I guess I was thinking about the append node or something.

[maiden wadi]

@quick lance As for storing it, you don't need to if you're actually using StringTables. You can look it up directly off of a LiteralText node.

[quick lance]

I'm not sure I understand, could you clarify?

[odd ember]

I think they're saying that you could use a LiteralText node instead of a String Table

[dawn gazelle]

You enter whatever you want into your string table. You can then directly set text nodes with the value from the string table by using the little triangle drop-down.

[maiden wadi]

Just don't forget to rename the inputs on your Format. Also fun random fact, you can use the same code multiple times with one format input.

[mossy mist]

how do i tell a procedural foliage spawner what layers on the landscape it can spawn on?

[gentle urchin]

Dont think you do. You output it in the world material as a "grass" node if i remember correctly

[mossy mist]

nvm found it

[gaunt ferry]

how do i properly use add movement input outside of the char bp

bc i cant get it to work

[maiden wadi]

Why would you want to?

[gritty elm]

is there a way to change spline direction?

[gaunt ferry]

bc i just need to lol

[maiden wadi]

But why isn't the pawn handling it's own controls?

[gaunt ferry]

im trying to control another pawn

[maiden wadi]

Like a vehicle?

Either way. The short answer is that you really do not. If you really want to go that route, you can make events in your pawn and pass in what you need to control the other one. Though I strongly advise against this, and to just possess this other pawn and do the inputs directly in it.

[keen solstice]

@odd ember @trim matrix thanks guys, the map worked like a charm! This will expand my options a lot! 🙂

[gaunt ferry]

well im making a mod for a game which i dont have access to the bp

i just need to be able to add movement to a pawn that has a player controller

[ancient topaz]

Hi all!
Really need some help.
After Project compil, the values of the variables that were in the last revision remain. If I transfer the project to another computer and compile there, the values of the variables will be new. Can you explain why this is the case? And how to fix it?

[maiden wadi]

Oof. Well in that case, yeah. Just add two new events in the pawn and pass in the data you need for the pawn to call AddMovementInput on itself.

[gaunt ferry]

i dont have access to the bp inside of the pawn

[maiden wadi]

Can you access the pawn's movement component? You may be able to call AddInputVector from blueprint. May work.

[gaunt ferry]

i can

[maiden wadi]

Does that work to use? I've never bypassed AddMovementInput.

[maiden wadi]

AddInputVector is what AddMovemenInput calls internally. You input there what you would normally input for Scale and Direction except you multiply the direction by scale before using it in AddInputVector

[hollow gorge]

Hi, My third person character created and uses a general hud widget. The character uses a health component that handles health and damage calculations. Now I was wondering how I could get a direct reference to the Hud widget from the health component. Is that even possible without casting to thirdpersoncharacter?
TL;DR: how do I cast to a specific widget?

[maiden wadi]

You need to reverse your thought process with UI. UI should display and interact with game systems, game systems should not do that to UI. So instead of giving your health widget the UI to update, you need to give your UI the health component.

[hollow gorge]

Instead of using a bind functions to get the health value, I've been sending the health updates through an interface to the hud so far.

I tried to prevent it ticking when no changes happen 😦

[maiden wadi]

It's less about performance and more about design habits. When you character has to update the widget, the widget has to exist. Or the Hud and then the Hud the health widget. It's a lot of unncessary indirection for something that you could add to screen from anywhere and it'd just magically work.

Your character has a global getter. You can always get it from getting the local PlayerController. You should but you don't even need to use bindings, you can just GetPlayerPawn it if you really want.

[trim pollen]

Hi, why doesn't this level blueprint switch to my Cinecamera on load? It works in one of my other projects.

[maiden wadi]

This allows you to delete any updating the hud, and delete the hud updating the health widget and have nothing but a health component handling it's own thing, and a widget displaying that, with no direct connection between the two. You can remove the widget with zero consideration to all of your other code.

[maiden wadi]

Level blueprint's Beginplay runs before GameMode spawns PlayerControllers. GetPlayerController does not exist for another frame.

[hollow gorge]

thanks, I'll do that

[trim pollen]

Okay, cool. so do I need to delay event beginplay by a frame? if so, how would you do that?

[maiden wadi]

Pretty sure there's a binding or event somewhere. Sec

Delay would work, but could be messy.

[versed sun]

https://www.screencast.com/t/d6HbU2fgXD

[trim pollen]

what is CustomEvent_0?

[versed sun]

just a Custom Event

[trim pollen]

Sorry, still getting the hang of this. How would I set up a custom event that switches to my camera?

[versed sun]

You can do this and plug your camera actor into the Is Valid

and if it IS valid , just continue with your begin play code

[dim robin]

i need to get unix timestamp. i'm using rama victory bp library. get unix time stamp returns an int32 (i also tried to change it to int64 and recompile from plugin source with no success). I need the precision to be in milliseconds, but the return value is in seconds. (i don't know if it is enough to create a new variable (string is ok) appending timestampinseconds . timestamp milliseconds)

[trim pollen]

This didn't work

[versed sun]

what happens ? infinate Loop ?

[trim pollen]

no, it compiles, no errors

just stays on the default camera

The way I normally do this isn't working either and I think it's because I'm doing it on the Unreal content examples collection, so there may be some other setting preventing it to work that I'm not aware of.

[spark steppe]

add the delta time to the timestamp, then you got your ms @dim robin

timestamp * 1000 + delta * 1000 = time since 1970 in ms

[maiden wadi]

Huh. Funny enough there are a few delegates for player controller becoming valid on a machine through GameInstance and GameViewportClient. None of them are BP accessible though.

Either way. Seriously, just do a delay loop. It's dirty, but it works.

[dim robin]

thanks i'll try now

[maiden wadi]

Sounds like the textblock doesn't exist.

[main lake]

How can I get values from an Enum by just the index ? Or is there a way to retrieve a specific value ?

[maiden wadi]

Not following? You want the Enum's value or?

[main lake]

Like I have an enum with multiple values in it and I need to get 1 value to connect it to a "Get All Actors with Tag" as the tags are in that enum, so I need to get the values of the enum one by one to save them in a variable

[maiden wadi]

Instead of relying on Enum name conversion(Which has a tendency to explode when compiling for shipping), make yourself a map of Enum/FName. Get your FName from that map.

[versed sun]

oooo

[maiden wadi]

Very strongly incredibly and insistently urge avoiding converting enums to name directly.

[dim robin]

as result i get "timestamp in seconds".0

[versed sun]

is Enum name conversion bad?

[spark steppe]

show your nodes

[maiden wadi]

They change when you build for shipping. It's just not reliable. It's much safer and easier just to have a map somewhere static like a dataasset or even a library function at the least with a local map to convert it.

[versed sun]

cool, thanks for the tip

im useing that alot in my project

[main lake]

Like so ?

[maiden wadi]

Yep.

Also. Shameless mention about Gameplay tags and all that stuff. 😄

[dim robin]

am i doing it wrong?

[spark steppe]

no

you said you get "timestamp in seconds".0

[gentle urchin]

About that! Would you TMap <GameplayTag, Integint32> for something like a "cost" of an object ?

[main lake]

But wait I have to rewrite each name I have in the EN_Tasks in the Name ?
Why Shameless about using Gameplay tags ?

[spark steppe]

thats because it's a float, you could just ceil the result back to int

[maiden wadi]

Like buying an inventory object from a shop?

[gentle urchin]

YEs

Or .. building a building 🙂

Construction cost so to speak

[maiden wadi]

Absolutely. If the item can be defined by that tag, and is correlated to it in a way that the tag is that item, definitely.

[gentle urchin]

Perfect. I think this could work

struck me while trying to explain the "issue" lol

[spark steppe]

this would be time in seconds 1642365876
this time in ms 1642365876000
this time in ms + delta 1642365876123

[maiden wadi]

I use tags for practically everything at work and in personal projects now. Literally their only downside is that they can't be created at runtime, but neither can Enums.

[open crypt]

is there an editor-only "quit game" function? I've got a crash that occurs only during the editor and I want to try debuggin it but not worry about it affecting any builds

[dim robin]

ah! now i get what you mean

[gentle urchin]

True, I'm using them towards DB's, so its very static anyways

[spark steppe]

you can skip the *1000 multiplication if you want the ms as fraction

[main lake]

I'm creating tags at runtime by getting values from the enums and setting them as tags 🤔

[dim robin]

yes, this is what i actually need

thanks a lot!

[spark steppe]

then remove both *1000 and just add delta to the timestamp

[gentle urchin]

But not creating new tags, right

[maiden wadi]

But you're generating the same data from the same enums. So it's not really runtime generation.

[main lake]

Like I'm doing that in the construct script

[gentle urchin]

Try making one from a string 😄

[maiden wadi]

I mean something more like having creatable items players could create and name themselves. You'd need a new tag/enum entry for that. You can't do that with enums and GameplayTags at runtime.

Actually, I'm not strictly sure about that about GameplayTags. You might be able to get around that where they're just an ini entry. That's some deep digging though, and really not worth it when you have FNames.

[main lake]

Is this good ?

[maiden wadi]

Yeah, that should work.

[gentle urchin]

That does seem a tad pointless tho doesnt it ?

[main lake]

Maybe ?

I just need to get the stuff in the enum to use it as a way to find objects in the world with those tags

maybe there's a better way ?

[native willow]

im might be a bit late but why cant you just get an enum name as string?

[main lake]

how ?

[maiden wadi]

Enum names break on shipping builds.

[native willow]

there is a node for it, I forgot how its done in bp

[native willow]

damn

[gentle urchin]

Enum is just a byte , use it as such 😄

[main lake]

? 🤔 Tell me more

[gentle urchin]

Fits badly with tags

Tag would be 0, 1 , 2 ...

[native willow]

use it and convert it in construction script?

[gentle urchin]

pretty non-descriptive

[maiden wadi]

Convert it how? You require C++ to do that, and by the time you go through the technical trouble, an enum to name map is much easier and also quicker in execution.

[gentle urchin]

ye that's true

and it simply just works

[main lake]

What I'm trying to do is this :
On the construction script of the gamemode, find all the :

• Roll Call Triggers in the world and set them to the array "Roll Call Triggers" (on the left of the screenshot above)
• Breakfast Triggers in the world and set them to the array "Breakfast Trigger"
• .. etc for all the enums

[gentle urchin]

No reason to overengineer it 😄

[native willow]

but... but...

[gentle urchin]

sounds dodgy to do it in constructionscript

[main lake]

why ?

[gentle urchin]

No worries, im a big fan of overengineering

I do it all the time

[native willow]

😎

[gentle urchin]

Guess im just not confident everything is definetly spawned at that point

[maiden wadi]

I'm just downright lazy. 😄 I have far too many things to keep track of in my head as is.

[main lake]

But If I drag those triggers in the world, aren't they there before the construction script executing ?

[gentle urchin]

Yeah true, im just used to dynamically spawning things etc. If they exist in the level I'd think it's part of the "level loaded" delegate before any construction script runs... but dont quote me on it

[main lake]

So the way I'm doing this is good or there's a better way to do it ?

[maiden wadi]

On a side note. GetActorsWithGameplayTag also exists.

Not that I'm hinting that you should use those. 😄

[gentle urchin]

say what?

Is this ue5 magic?

replacing tags with gameplaytags?

[main lake]

What's the difference between that and the Get All Actors with Tag ?

[native willow]

idk about dynamically spawned actors but it for sure safe to use construction script with the actors placed in level, im not even sure whether the construction script is executed at all if you spawn an actor at runtime

[maiden wadi]

Oh. Nevermind that's work thing. Wrong rider open. But to be fair, you could do GetAllActorsWithTag and just use GameplayTag to FName.

[gentle urchin]

Did you edit the base AActor? 😄

[main lake]

My brain is starting to melt

[gentle urchin]

apply cool aid

[main lake]

huh ?

[native willow]

https://tenor.com/view/kool-aid-man-oh-yeah-wall-break-family-guy-gif-8149689

[main lake]

So any solution ?

[main lake]

Will it update if I add new stuff in my Enum ?

Like later in case I forgot some things

[maiden wadi]

With the gameplay tags?

In that case, the GameplayTags replace your enum. And would allow you to ditch the map.

Otherwise, you need to make sure you keep that map updated when adding a new enum value.

[gentle urchin]

double work for nothing

compared to just updating the GameplayTag list

[main lake]

https://tenor.com/view/seriously-gif-23861497

[maiden wadi]

Which is also safer than enums.

[gentle urchin]

but

is there a switch on gameplaytag 😄

[maiden wadi]

Dealing with enums at serialization time is just annoying.

[main lake]

I'm wondering why I didn't choose to become a cashier in my life it would be easier

[gentle urchin]

But would it be as fun

[main lake]

Yes, if you start juggling with pickle boxes

[native willow]

but would it be as profitable? 😏

[main lake]

Yes profitable for my brain to not melt 😉

[maiden wadi]

Authaer 2022 - "Using Enums is like juggling with pickle boxes."

[main lake]

x)

[maiden wadi]

I'm sorry. 😄 I hate the things. They've been a royal pain to me in the last year or so.

[main lake]

So I need to always make sure to update the "Make Literal Gameplay Tag" if I add a new thing to the enum later ?

[native willow]

you should really consider adding (GameplayTag Guy) to your nickname

now, im satisfied

[maiden wadi]

wut? No, if you use the tags, you no longer need the Enum.

Hah

[main lake]

Like isn't there a way to save all the triggers directly without looking for it using "Get All Actors with Tag" in the GameMode ?

This could be done on any actor through exposing the variables and drag and dropping those triggers from the world to the exposed variables, but as the GameMode doesn't show up in the World Outline I can't do that

[maiden wadi]

You could make an actor as a world existing singleton and just get that one actor to get the values out of.

[main lake]

How do you make it a singleton ?

[maiden wadi]

Just a definition. As in only one single instance of it.

[main lake]

huh ?

So just dropping 1 actor of it in the world that's it ?

[maiden wadi]

Yep.

[main lake]

Is it safe ?

[maiden wadi]

I mean, no different than dropping your triggers there.

It's less common practice because there are programmatical ways around it by sorting data correctly, but it's a pretty common level designer tool. You just have to be aware of that if you create multiple levels.

[native willow]

subsystems

[main lake]

https://tenor.com/view/bruh-bye-ciao-gif-5156041

[maiden wadi]

Blueprint Subsystems would be neat... Or terrible.

Not sure.

[main lake]

This simple problem is like impossible to solve, that's insane 😄

[native willow]

id love to be able to make a blueprint out of a subsystem and then choose that one to be created instead of cpp one, it would save a lot of trouble with asset references

[gentle urchin]

I'd love to just move on with my bping instead of trying to optimize my movement code further

somehow i end up down in the rabbit hole all over again each time i try

[maiden wadi]

At least you didn't start rewriting behavior trees. I have a feeling that rabbit hole is going to eat me. 😄

[gentle urchin]

Try optimizing VInterp.....

and when that doesnt work try optimizing TMap while keeping it sorted...

Or atleast... flowcontrolled

[maiden wadi]

I can promise that the movement of an actor costs a fuckton more than the VInterp calculation.

[gentle urchin]

Not when the movement is done in the gpu

[still delta]

Looking for assistance. I added some functionality to what was once a basic progress bar & UI text debug, and now they text isn't working correctly. As it stands, pressing C will update and fill the progress bar until full, then reset back to 0 (not adding in a remainder as I had hoped), and the text that is "supposed" to show percent filled is updating to values that don't make sense. Any help would be appreciated!

Note: The progress bar DOES seem to be working correctly. It takes increasing amounts of clicks to reach "required amount", and the text does "update level". It's the percent filled text and the bar not adding remainder exp after reset that I haven't figured out

[odd ember]

did you write a compute shader?

[gentle urchin]

No, i (this might be wrong) assume that's how ISM's work ?

[odd ember]

ISMs are drawn on the gpu

but movement?

what kind of movement?

[gentle urchin]

"movement"

[odd ember]

world position offset?

[gentle urchin]

just updating ism transforms

[odd ember]

that's not handled on gpu

[maiden wadi]

Movement has to be done on the CPU, you set that in the ISM component's array of transforms and then mark the object dirty for the render thread.

[gentle urchin]

Guess that makes more sense ,

me and my assumptions

was thinking the cpu just maps up the new transforms, and using the RenderStateDirty to pass them on to the GPU

surely the cpu updates the transforms but... well

nah i should stop talking 😄

[odd ember]

if it were world position offset, then yes

but that's emulated movement and not real

you wouldn't be able to collision it

[gentle urchin]

I probably cant anyway tbh

atleast colision in any regular sense

I think i'll manage without "real" movement tho

[maiden wadi]

Here. You pass CurrentXP in.

Here you do not.

So your variables are likely working fine. You just didn't update the UI after the reset until C is pressed again.

[still delta]

Thank you! That solves the issue of the progress bar not updating with remainder, however the fill percent is still off. It seems to be returning/displaying the value accrued as opposed to the value of the bar filled.
("Received Exp" grants 5.4 per click, and "Required Exp" increases by "Required Exp" * 1.7). So any time I press C it'll update to 0 (++ 1 level, which would be correct), then 5.4, then 1.6 ++ 1 level, etc. etc.

as an example. Lvl 4, displaying 40.484% while bar is about ~90% or so filled

[maiden wadi]

You're setting the progressbar differently than the text. From what I can see you're passing in the same value, but you're doing nothing with it on the text, but getting the percentage on the progressbar.

Realistically, I would just ditch one of the events, make one event for both, not bother passing in a float and just get it directly since it's in the same class, set the progressbar, and then get the progressbar's percent to set the text percent.

Then you're just calling a single no parameter update after anywhere you're changing values.

[grave relic]

So im thinking of a system here if i make a city and want NPC to be conected to that city. I make a parent object in the World Outliner where i have everything that belongs to that City, workstations, bed etc. Is there a way for me to say to a actor "search through the parent object and check all children". The pic for example, NPC 4 checks through the NPC_Base to se how many NPCs are here

[orchid star]

you can use tags, and get all actors with tag, and store the count somewhere

you can do it in construct if NPC's are static, even if not you can increment/decrement the count

[grave relic]

Thing is i dont want to manually sit and put stuff like tags on them, i want the actor the check everything that is under the same parent or something alike

[orchid star]

https://docs.unrealengine.com/4.26/en-US/BlueprintAPI/Utilities/GetAttachedActors/

[grave relic]

Unfortunately dont think that will do what i want

[rigid fractal]

how can i emit something while a key is being pressed and not when pressing it only once time?

[maiden wadi]

Need more context. Like a usable item, or?

[rigid fractal]

is a key to rotate an object smoothly, i already did it, but it only rotates when pressed at a time

this doesnt work for what i want

[flat raft]

Pressed Start your rotation, Release Stop your Rotation (animation)

[gaunt ferry]

is there any way u can give me a representation please

[flat raft]

Get all actors of class + search name for whatever you want ? You can also check who the parent is. (Maybe only in Bp, but check to make sure)

[rigid fractal]

good, its really not an animation
in that case i would need to save a boolean variable, change its value to true when pressed and change it to false when released, right?

[maiden wadi]

What I meant was that instead of doing this.

See if this has any difference.

If not, I have no decent ideas on how to control the pawn directly.

[gaunt ferry]

ok thank u ill try now

[zenith scaffold]

having trouble with vector math if someone wouldnt mind helping out, im attempting to simulate bullet physics with a simple line trace segments and delays in-between calls. although im getting this weird output. any help would be much appreciated, here is my code and a photo of whats occuring

it seems to be working after the first segment bends, but i may be wrong

[gaunt ferry]

so im doing this on 4.17 and i dont have the Tolerance option on my Normalize node

as u can see

[maiden wadi]

Wouldn't worry about it. The point of it is just to normalize it correctly to 1.0 length.

Never used 4.17. 😄 Started late in 4.23 something.

[gaunt ferry]

oh ok thx

what should i put as the float

[gaunt ferry]

.

[maiden wadi]

That's a modifier passed from input. Input usually has an Axis value on it that goes from -1 to 1. Keyboards only display -1, 0, and 1. Gamepads can do anything in between.

So if you pass GetActorForwardVector with a scale of 1, you'll run in the direction that actor is facing. With a scale of -1, you'll run backwards with that actor

[gaunt ferry]

ok thx

[flat raft]

You are setting the Start to the End. So you get a trace from The Gun to the Hit on the wall, then the hit location to some other point

[normal rampart]

Is it possible to dynamically set the anchors of a widget to fill the whole screen? Like choosing the bottom right corner option, but dynamically?

[maiden wadi]

Was the widget added to the Viewport?

[normal rampart]

I have it hooked up to an Add Child node to a Canvas Panel that is added to the viewport. So I can mess around with blueprints either before or after it is added to the viewport

[maiden wadi]

For bottom right.

[stray moat]

how would I create a sound cue that plays random sounds each time you selsct something

[normal rampart]

There's a random node in the sound cue that lets you add as many sounds as you want.

[stray moat]

okay just saw it thanks

[normal rampart]

The thing is, when manually setting an anchor and it becomes a rectangle instead of just a point, the options change from Position and Size to Offset. I can only find a way to set the anchor as a point dynamically rather than set it as four corners

[maiden wadi]

You set that based on the Anchors.

[zenith scaffold]

Can you show me quickly how to do that, I’m having trouble setting up the start and end points

[flat raft]

I'm not in from of my computer. You already have it though. Just disconnect everything after the trace

Well, actually, what's your end goal ?

[minor pagoda]

Is there a way to inherit structures?

[maiden wadi]

@normal rampart Some Left to right examples.

[normal rampart]

Oh, gotcha. I'm messing around with it now. Do I do that before or after I add it to the viewport?

Neither appear to work 😛

[flat raft]

@normal rampart widgets are complicated for me as the positions are relative to other widgets

[topaz badger]

Is it possible to possess child actors (pawns in this case) of a pawn? Trying to possess one gives me no errors but sets my camera in the ground or unpossesses my current pawn

[zenith scaffold]

To make a bullet using line trace, the goal is to not have immediate hit markers at longer ranges but have the bullet travel slowly, I’m also looking to add bullet drop so I’m thinking doing line traces in small segments that way I can change elevation each segment and call the trace with a delay in between to simulate the bullet traveling over long distance

[flat raft]

Check out the projectile component. It does all that magic for you. There should be tons of vids on YouTube on the projectile component.

[zenith scaffold]

What about for bullet penetration?

@flat raft

[flat raft]

What do you mean ?

[normal rampart]

I managed to find some weird roundabout why by just setting up my presets in a Horizontal box and adding my widget to that >.<

[flat raft]

Making bulletholes ?

[zenith scaffold]

Like shooting through wooden walls etc

[flat raft]

@zenith scaffold https://youtu.be/CdpFdnctA4w

He gives you a demo in the beginning

[zenith scaffold]

Awesome thanks

@flat raft

[slim sorrel]

https://i.vgy.me/DtIGJR.png

What does this mean?

Been stuck dealing with it for a few hours, no idea what to look for.

ONly this asset has the issue.

[cinder comet]

how would i change the starting point of a lerp?

[wheat cradle]

This means that something is blocking this asset. Sometimes I open a project twice in two copies of UE4. And I forget about it. And when I save the project, I get an error like yours.

[tawdry surge]

What do you mean "change the starting point of a lerp"?

[long whale]

how to define a function without execution pin?

[odd ember]

tick the box for Pure in the details panel

[long whale]

thanks!

[jovial charm]

I've been trying to get this to work for quite a while now, It's the fact that my current weapon has ammo, but isn't shooting? I've double checked all the blueprints, branches (I'm relatively new to blueprint so I'm not perfect) but still not success yet. I was hoping someone here could aid me?

Ammo above 0: https://gyazo.com/947fa7ce31f1b6ad77c9c26889e8ea40
Checks if the current weapon has ammo: https://gyazo.com/ecc0813189368a3fd8a99afc37c675db
If ammo is 0 or below stop firing: https://gyazo.com/ab196d0306c12368791e4e5e03278805
An event to tell me I have no ammo: https://gyazo.com/9cec90f868daf78f43ee7a0a549ebaab

I appreciate all the help btw! :]

[last abyss]

it is difficult to say with the information you gave, it could be u have no ammo but the widget is not updating the value, it could be one of the other branches failing (the aiming one?)
fyi, if you're using a bpi call there is no reason to do a pure cast to the master in the 'checks if current weapon has ammo'.

does it only happen when you have a rifle? or in both cases? what specifically isn't shooting, is it not playing an animation it is supposed to, is it supposed to spawn a projectile that doesn't spawn? if you print string your ammo value in your check has ammo? function, does it return the expected number?

[novel rock]

I was looking though the Action RPG Sample and i want to know how i can get is valid variable.

[last abyss]

right click on the variable and there is a convert to validated get

[novel rock]

Dam that's cool, thanks 😀

[last abyss]

yeah i've been loving it too much

[jovial charm]

Ah okay :) And the widget is being updated with the current values. I'm pretty sure it's something to do with the second gyazo picture

[novel rock]

What the heck is Enable? Boolean

[jovial charm]

https://gyazo.com/30f13a71759a105c742aa9a12c24ceea, When I disable the branches, I can shoot but then the ammo system wouldn't work.

[last abyss]

enable? is just a variable in that class

[novel rock]

How did you make that kind of of third person weapon camera system?

[last abyss]

that's strange, try printing the values that are being compared in your has ammo function on the weapon

[novel rock]

that's what i thought but i cant set it, or is it the kind of variable that can be seen by all Classes?

[last abyss]

although i should say, if you're using a plugin or someone else's code there may be a reason it is read only

[novel rock]

That's so cool you can call custom events from anywhere.

[vocal bobcat]

Should I avoid saving references to things like my playercontroller in my character BP, character BP in UI, etc? I'm getting editor crashes pretty often and wondering if its being caused by the fact that controller, character, ui, game state, playerstate all have saved references (in variables) to each other. I originally did this to avoid casting but all these things will all be in memory anyways so casting shouldn't be an issue. I'd use interfaces but it seems bad practice to use an interface for a single class just to avoid casting.

[jovial charm]

Oo, you might have helped me one step further. I printed the current ammo of the current weapon thats selected and the output value is 0.. But idk why? I've set it to have max ammo once the game is started.

[last abyss]

max ammo isn't 0 right 😅 ?

[jovial charm]

Ofcourse not, hopefully not .-.?

But here: https://gyazo.com/2ccc886efd947e774ce6586adc8898a0

That's how I set it to be max ammo at the beginning of the game

Though now it's printing the right values :/

Would unreal engine be somehow glitched out?

[clever vapor]

ce/Runtime/CoreUObject/Private/UObject/UObjectHash.cpp] [Line: 1309] Internal Error: RemoveFromHash NumRemoved = 0 for BlueprintGeneratedClass /Anyone run into this sort of error before?

[last abyss]

I'm not sure could be so many things, maybe you didn't compile so it didn't go through.. although, i'm pretty sure it auto compiles when you play but everyone always tells me 'alright, now that you changed these values compile save and play'

¯_(ツ)_/¯

[jovial charm]

Yeah I do, thanks for the help though :)

hopefully Ill be able to figure it out

[clever vapor]

this happens when i launch my project all of a sudden 😦 I think its on a BP i was touching, i had succesfully compiled then closed and now cant open

[jovial charm]

Is this the right blueprint if the current ammo is below 0, its false. https://gyazo.com/29dff1be1e5839657df12aaf47dfcc14

[last abyss]

seems fine, is it still not working?

[hollow gorge]

is there a way to influence or see which "Event Begin Play" fires first from all actor components of an actor?

[last abyss]

for seeing i guess you could print string on beginplay? no idea how you would influence it though

[hollow gorge]

oh right, I could just use print strings on each component to find out the order

[last abyss]

i guess for influencing it.. u could just add the components one by one on beginplay? I've never done this myself but seems like something that could work

[vocal bobcat]

How do you access data table columns by name? I can pull a row from a data table but it just returns the struct elements as pins. I'd like to get a specific column/pin by string/name.

[jovial charm]

Nope aha

[brazen merlin]

Pretty sure there is one node for data tables that let you get the column as a string array

[vocal bobcat]

@brazen merlin thanks, i see that one but i don't know how i'd combine the two. The Row name isn't included in the output of Get DataTable Column as string

Ah I got it, MakeDataTableRowHandle does what I want. You pass in the DataTable and row name, then you can get data table columns as string, then you'll get the values

thanks!

[brazen merlin]

Yes. I admit its not as convenient as it could be. You would be working with both to...

Awesome!

[cursive apex]

How can I make it so that both widgets link to the event ?

[last abyss]

just plug both return values in the target of the add to viewport

[brazen merlin]

You can add more than 1 to viewport. So create the first one then add it then make the second one and then add that

[clever vapor]

I don't know what happened but a blueprint I have is crashing my project when i launch, i have the stacktrace but is there some folders I should be clearing in unreal engine source build or other areas to clear a corrupt blueprint? This blueprint compiled fine, but i relaunched project and now it wont ever launch because of this 1 BP.

Or is there a way to edit a corrupt BP or like fresh it somehow, i renamed it to nycharacter2 instead of mycharacter and i can start now but have to fix all broken references now, not sure what happened

[split orbit]

Ok so I followed Reid's Spatial Inventory Tutorial, got all the way through it, works great.

I am attempting to use that to make a "Container" system where you can make inventories tied to other actors.

What is my initial step into this, I have been wracking my brain over it.

Do I got about making a new Actor Component for it and reuse the code, or can I child off the InventoryComponent BP and use that?

[novel rock]

press button spawn at location. why cant i think of a way to do this. i had an idea of how to do this before i looked at the RPG Example, now i don't know what to think.

[brazen merlin]

so you want to spawn a wagon when you click the appropriate button for it?

[novel rock]

yes, click Widget button spawn in front of wagon store building. there are more than one building though.

[brazen merlin]

so is there a button that appears over the specific building?

i see you have a Widget variable, but how is that being set?

is there suppose to be a button that appears over the building?

[novel rock]

I have an NPC who spawns in front of place holder building

[brazen merlin]

well you dont need the cast because it is already of the type you want

but i still dont understand how that var is set

[novel rock]

witch var?

[brazen merlin]

Widget

[novel rock]

i just put it in there by hand

[brazen merlin]

looking at the video though, i dont understand how the button knows about building (nvm, i see). Theoretically this could work, but maybe the spawning is failing because of collision reasons, why dont you try a different spawn method?

[novel rock]

sure what do you have in mind?

[brazen merlin]

i think the issue is with this first picture where you are setting the Building of the Widget. It wont work if it's just set to that type ( Player UI Widget ) but it needs to reference that specific widget which gets created

[brazen merlin]

so i guess you would need to know of this widget in this picture to then set it's Building reference

[novel rock]

Player makes it. should i have the player get all buildings and assign it to eatch?

[brazen merlin]

well, with this, i would suggest the order of Create Widget > Set Var > Add to Viewport, so that you are adding the variable reference to viewport and not the output (maybe it doesnt matter). But you would be wanting to reference that UiWidget variable, but i do understand that this for each of the buildings so if you could get the specific building then go for it, but i wonder if there isn't a better way to do this that has less back and forth (cant think of one though)

[novel rock]

like this?

[novel rock]

that's what I'm thinking.

[brazen merlin]

use the output of the Set var (plug it into the target)

[novel rock]

I tried but it would let me, i think i have the wrong type of variable selected. I cant think I'm going to bed ill try again in the morning.

[brazen merlin]

what type is UiWidget?

seems to be set without problem

so it should be a widget

[novel rock]

It was set to object, i changed it to Widget and it still didn't work. ill make a video of the trill and error in the morning.

[brazen merlin]

weird

[jolly delta]

The bat shows to have blockalldynamic collision, even tho I have set it to block all

it only blocks all moving objects

why

[brazen merlin]

can i see the collision settings?

[jolly delta]

the collision settings for the bat

[brazen merlin]

im confused, BlockAll will block all moving objects

what do you want? you havent stated the problem

[jolly delta]

I want it to block everything

[brazen merlin]

block all should

[jolly delta]

also the objects not moving

[jolly delta]

damn

[brazen merlin]

as in, wall will block it

[jolly delta]

yes

[brazen merlin]

well i would guess your walls dont block all?

[jolly delta]

nah they block all

[brazen merlin]

weird, should all be blockin then

maybe other colliders are causing problems

[jolly delta]

hmm

[brazen merlin]

also never used floating pawn movement, so i dunno if that causes a problem

[trim matrix]

Is it alright if I ask sorta basic questions? I'm trying to learn through just kinda winging it since I've been having a lot of trouble following tutorials, but I just wanna make sure yall are alright with that kinda thing first, since I don't wanna annoy anyone

[brazen merlin]

well this channel is blueprints

[trim matrix]

the questions are relating to blueprints

[brazen merlin]

right place then

[trim matrix]

i just dunno how this server operates, i know some servers prefer not to work with people who's problems could be solved by watching a tutorial, so if thats the case here i wanted to respect that

[brazen merlin]

well you'll possibly get that depending

if its something that would take me more time then i would like to spend, i would refer you to a video

but some problems are rather specific

so go ahead and ask

[trim matrix]

alright, thanks

[brazen merlin]

could always delete your message if you want to pretend it never happened

[trim matrix]

so to start off I wanted to try adding a sprint function to the basic 3d character, i'm not really sure if theres a "right" way to do that sorta thing, i just tried to do it to the best of my ability, but i'm a little stuck on how to get both of those to work since there's only one input option

so is there a way to get a node that allows for both? or am i doing this completely wrong

[brazen merlin]

yeah i dont think you have to do it this way

if we lose sprint for a moment, the default setup is that moveForward sets movement input

and that speed is set by MaxWalkSpeed

so while you press sprint, you would just want to change that

then change MaxWalkSpeed back to the non-sprint value when its let go

you wouldnt need to have sprint mess with this area at all

[trim matrix]

ah alright, thanks, where would I find maxwalkspeed?

[brazen merlin]

its in the character movement component, assuming you're using a character class

[trim matrix]

I just made a third person project then opened the "ThirdPersonCharacter" blueprint

[brazen merlin]

yep, its in there then

[trim matrix]

in the graph?

[brazen merlin]

listed in its components

[trim matrix]

So how would I edit that in the graph?

[brazen merlin]

drag the cmc into your graph

[fiery swallow]

Alright gang, I've got a widget that's being created, And I can't figure out where it's being created. Any Ideas?

[brazen merlin]

not a clue, maybe #umg

[brazen merlin]

maybe this helps you, there'd be more to it, but i think using variables for Walk and Sprint speeds would be a good idea

[fiery swallow]

That wouldn't be it fam, It's not really UMG related as much as it is I need to find what's calling the "create widget" node

maybe it's not a node 🤔

maybe it's inside of a widget as a child

[brazen merlin]

so somewhere in one of your bps there is a widget appearing on your player?

could try a search in blueprints for "create widget"

[fiery swallow]

I found it, it's what I suspected, it's in the child... I honestly feel sorry for anyone who buys SurvivalGamekitv2 on the marketlist with little UE4 experience

but thanks for the help bro

there is a million widgets and hierarchies

[brazen merlin]

ah, did not know

[trim matrix]

Thanks so much!

[clever acorn]

Hey quick question what do i look for in videos I am trying to set my character up with the survival animation asset so when I pick up a bandage the bandage knows what animation to use. Not sure what I am looking for. Like when I have a bow or axe in my action bar when i press a key it spawns in hand and know what animation to use to draw and fire? Hope to get some help of what to be searching for.

[brazen merlin]

for bandage, i would think montages. for a weapon, i think that would be changing the animations of the anim graph (which would need to have the anim pins exposed, i.e. Bind). The animation montage/sequences could be stored on the item to then inform which anims to play/set.

[fervent temple]

hey guys

i made this sword blueprint

that damages my character

it does damage my character just fine

problem is it damages it when it touches the player no matter what the instance

i only want it to damage players when the sword was swung not when it passed by the player

[unreal tusk]

I imagine it may be because you have it set on Do Damage to "self", I think you need to direct it towards a pawn. (I'm still incredibly new to UE myself so hopefully I'm not giving you horrible advise lmao)

[fervent temple]

multiplayer game

its the same BP for both characters

its not damaging the person whos holding it which is good. its damaging the correct target but its doing it when its not suppoeed to

if i hold the sword and walk past the other person, they get damaged becuz the sword collides with them

[brazen merlin]

sounds like it shouldnt have collision enabled until the moment

[fervent temple]

yes how do i do that

oh set collision node

[brazen merlin]

set collision enabled specifically

and if anim notify states work (for mp), you could control when it is on and off per frame

[maiden wadi]

Your DoOnce logic is also pointless. You're starting the DoOnce, doing something, then resetting it immediately so the next overlap execution will go through.

[gentle urchin]

Also.. Getplayerchar? for the damage event

seem dangerous

logically

[fervent temple]

it cuts off

its to grab a variable

[brazen merlin]

looks like you've awoken the server 😄

[fervent temple]

lol seems like it

heres my stab logic that swings the sword bp

[maiden wadi]

I just needed a break from data organization. 😄

[gentle urchin]

Same..

TMap didnt work

TMultiMap is not supported

gotta change to Array and a new struct -.-

[maiden wadi]

Work for what?

[gentle urchin]

for Storage slots😄

Obvious ofcourse, but was in a flow 😄

[maiden wadi]

Wat? Maps are fine for that. SlotIndex/Data

[gentle urchin]

need amount

aswell