blueprint

[trim matrix]

🤔

[worthy frost]

?

[trim matrix]

when sprinting it still takes effect ?

or that's only when idle

[worthy frost]

http://thegames.dev/snaps/1tJaaAfzsB.mp4

[trim matrix]

yup just asking

yeah that's exactly what i wanted to do x)

thx kaos and the guys for ur help 😄

[unreal tusk]

Anyone have an idea on how to grab variables from another actor?
I have a On Component Begin Overlap for other actor.
I've set Other Actor as a variable. I assume I can cast to ThirdPersonCharacter and set it to Other Actor on Object? However, from there, how do I call for example, that Other Actor's armor variable, so that I can calculate damage correctly.

[faint pasture]

Just cast the OtherActor to ThirdPersonCharacter then get the variable.

You don't need to save the ref to a variable or whatever

Yes that would be the good/general way to do it.

The main difference would between the approaches would be

Casting
On overlap, check if OtherActor is a ThirdPersonCharacter. If it is, get its armor value, then apply damage.

Interface
On Overlap, call IArmor::GetModifier on OtherActor, do math, then call IDamage::ApplyDamage on it as well.

Although, the damage causer shouldn't care about armor. Armor should be handled in the damage system by the damagee.

Unless you have some weird effect like "Causes 3x Armor Value as Damage"

[unreal tusk]

oh good point actually.

I do have a weird value though, since I'm operating off the Dungeons and Dragons ruleset, but yeah. Good point. I'll see if I can workshop something up on the Event AnyDamage side.

[faint pasture]

THAC0?

[unreal tusk]

That probably makes everything super simple compared to what I was trying to do

[faint pasture]

@slate pondJust use the DamageTaken modifier on the victim's side

OnTakeDamage, HP = HP - RawIncomingDamage x DamageTakenModifier

I'm still praying for the day that components can just automagically implement interfaces on behalf of the owning actor

Although a component is sorta already an interface + state so...

I do interaction by component and not with an interface.

[runic parrot]

Doesnt work with
-get owner - does implement interface X -> if no, add interface
?

[faint pasture]

That doesn't sound right at all but I might be wrong

Yeah at that point you might as well just handle the interface there. What I'm talking about is just slapping a HealthComponent on an actor and having it handle damage, with the actor not even necessarily knowing anything about it.

Why doesn't GAS just get component by class? speed?

That's pretty interesting, so it doesnt own an ASC until it gets asked for its ASC?

so the map doesn't start with 100,000 ASCs floating around

[open sedge]

so im playing a sequence from a blueprint but it only plays once. how can i tell it it play forever

and no i cannot place it in the level and do it that way sadly

i need it in this bp to reference and start/stop

[keen solstice]

So I noticed textures change (decrease quality) depending of the distance of the player, there's any way to increase this distance a little? Was looking on google but can't find anything about this

[faint pasture]

Scalability settings?

[keen solstice]

Thank you guys for the help but I just found my problem, I was using texture group 2d pixel (because I want to use a pixelated texture and preserve the pixels), but for some reason this makes the texture bug a lot when you apply it to a mesh lol

[runic parrot]

I'm trying to change the name of one if my variables, but supposedly i already have one with that name "CharactersInBuilding".
I want to change the one with "2" and remove that "2".
There's no variable with that name, does anyone know what may be happening? i already compiled again.

[tawdry surge]

Try restarting the editor. Sometimes unreal doesn't update that a variable has been deleted or an input added

[devout latch]

Yes, I had that problem before. Restarting should fix it.

[languid hemlock]

Hello @brazen merlin i come to you in a time of need i cant seem to find the input modifier you showed here https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/897096790757748750/933866789153157160/unknown.png

[sonic oak]

it's just a float value set as a variable

It will determine how 'fast' the movement occurs, or rather how much distance will be covered in that input

[languid hemlock]

oooh okay

[smoky rivet]

why is this read only

its an animnotify blueprint

possible to make it read and write so i can access it in another blueprint?

[brazen merlin]

yep. What Sparta said. I called it InputModifier, but you can call the float variable whatever you like. You need to make it in your BP_Kart class since that's where MoveForward gets called.

[languid hemlock]

yup :3 btw uh shall i put it into update or the initializion?

[brazen merlin]

set the default value of InputModifier to 1.0 in the variable details. No need to use a setter node here. In your HackerItem class, when the Hit event fires, you are getting this variable and changing the value to -1.0, then delay, then back to 1.0

[languid hemlock]

ahh alright :0 but is it like a float * float as i cant seem to select a Float using a custom name

[brazen merlin]

what?

[umbral ginkgo]

How would I do a line trace from the player camera?

[brazen merlin]

if its for gun sights, i think its a bit trickier than just a line trace

[umbral ginkgo]

Not for a gun

actually trying to make an interaction system

[brazen merlin]

so you just need a line trace from camera? specifically just that? nothing else is going on?

[normal hawk]

seems like a total noob question, but -- i basically have a need for a volume with a blueprintable enter/exit step. Does some actor like this exist somewhere? I feel like I'm completely missing something

[brazen merlin]

you have OverlapEnter and OverlapEnd events for actors

[umbral ginkgo]

If I know what I'm doing (which I don't), yes

[brazen merlin]

you've done line traces before? like from the player facing direction for example?

[umbral ginkgo]

Nope, my first time using them

in ue4

[brazen merlin]

oh ok

fps?

[umbral ginkgo]

ive done them in unity

but that isnt applicable

[brazen merlin]

first person shooter?

[umbral ginkgo]

No actually

third person

[brazen merlin]

alright

well you need to get the forward vector of your camera for starters, there are plenty of "how to do line trace" for unreal out there, you want the camera actor specifically though

[normal hawk]

@brazen merlin aha! TriggerBox + ActorBeginOverlap. Looks like that will work. Thanks for giving me the pointer in the right spot.

[faint sand]

Im testing basic AI Behavior Tree, a simple run to player. Ive got it all set up, except its not working. What am i missing

[trim matrix]

how do you detect when it reach the limit, actually i just did a (RootYaw >= 90) set isTurning and then if isTurning is true interp RootYaw

[worthy frost]

i do it with curves

inside the animations

[trim matrix]

like the sample then

[worthy frost]

curves allow for better blending

[trim matrix]

they do like that

[worthy frost]

yeah

[faint sand]

it never actually does anything with the MoveTo piece which seems to indicate it is getting nothing for the TargetLocation

[trim matrix]

so if i don't have turn anims i'm a little bit.. f*cked ? 😄

[faint sand]

no, its getting a value, just the AI isnt moving to that location

[trim matrix]

never touched it tbh..

[remote meteor]

selector will only run a single branch

[faint sand]

so that should be a sequence then?

ok, so i changed that. i can see it firing on the MoveTo, but the AI still arent moving

[remote meteor]

you need some sort of a decorator for the actual condition

[faint sand]

so this should work... and i see it firing both now, but still no movement

yeah, really simple flat square and the green covers teh whole thing

other than its shape, all its settings are default

yep, custom controller. nothing special. its only function is to test AI Behavior so it has a single node on it

well single node... graph

which calls the RunBehaviorTree

yes

fwiw both red/blue characters are AI, i spawn at player start

you can see me changing position

also fwiw this is a blank new project, top down, the only thing that exists is AI behavior items already posted

so, we can see the vector is correct, and we can see it execute both nodes in the tree

that seems to indicate the tree and task and blackboard are correct

not sure what you mean by step

all these nodes turn yellow back and fort

wonder if the characters are stuck in the floor geometry, going to move them up a bit

moved. no change

testing

no moveforward node specifically but ill set it up to move to other ai

character

default

tried that, nothing

does this matter

ok. ill try that. i did replace the default navmesh, so it might have borked it up

yeah, 200 wouldnt even make it to the other character, they are 1000 apart exactly

but thats just the bruch

brush

the box itself covers everything, and you can see the gree

yeah, UE5

umm... i dont know how to create a new recastnavmesh. it looks like its an actor

so that could be the problem, it might be linked somehow to the original/default navmesh that i deleted before i created this navmesh

brb rr

back

not that i can tell. i assume you want me to delete it firt

checking

no, it did not

and the green is gone, which seems to be drawn by the recast

ill create a new navmesh

[umbral ginkgo]

How would I display the out hit of a line trace in a string

[faint sand]

ok, as soon as i dragged the new navmesh on the map it creatd a new recast

no change, AI still just stand there

nope

did a search of simplemovement

nope, but ill give that a shot

[umbral ginkgo]

Why is this line trace inverted with the camera?

Yes

When you say camera location you mean what I have now?

[full dew]

Not sure if this is the place to ask this question. Anyone run into problems trying to use action "cast to bp motion controller"?

[brazen merlin]

you have the location, but you need to produce an offset by using the forward vector

[umbral ginkgo]

Ahh that makes sense

[faint sand]

i tried an AI MoveTo node, but im having issues setting it up.

[unique holly]

Heyo, here with what i hope is an easy one.... Opening project, all its set to do is open a menu widget... and the cursor is jumping to top left screen. Hoping its a common one, but not had great luck on google!!

[full dew]

Not sure if this is the place to ask this question. Anyone run into problems trying to use action "cast to bp motion controller"?

[brazen merlin]

that cast doesn't look like its bp motion controller

[full dew]

yea, but cast to bp motion controller was not on the list to choose from

[umbral ginkgo]

@slate pond Is this what you were talking about?

[full dew]

the action i used gave me a warning. The tutorial i followed called for cast to bp motion controller but it was not in the action menu to choose frome

[faint sand]

not getting past the node

[languid hemlock]

like how did you make the float just be a name as a blueprint?

[faint sand]

so per that output, its working, except the characters arent moving lol

newvar0 is the blue one btw

i thought maybe the animation was broken, but i checked and all the stuff is there. its the default animation blueprint

i didnt think so, but considering anything at this point

this is exactly why i didnt want to test in my actual projected. wanted to keep it super simple

sure

[brazen merlin]

You should really watch a video on bp variables

[faint sand]

default AIController - no change, and i still get the same Success output

at this point weve taken the behavior completely out of the scenario, so whats left. it would seem the characters themselves

checked characters on map, they are Movable

[opaque river]

been following this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEd-USZfJxU tutorial on a basic character controller for a vertical slice, I cant seem to find any option he has enabled that my project doesnt but I have no pawn movement on mine what am i missing that might be assumed to be turned on for the tutorial?

[faint sand]

is that in the character?

i dont know where that detail section is at

lol duh one sec

static

[lunar gale]

Hello friends, I'm kinda new to UE and I'm having issues with a save/load thing. I don't wanna butt in someone else's question here but if anyone with a big brain could help out that would be amazing; I've been at this all day

[faint sand]

well i seriously appreciate the effort. at this point i feel like i should just recreate the test project and do it all from scratch again. who knows

UE5 bug maybe?

ok will do thanks again for monstrous effort @slate pond

[dawn gazelle]

You can't hook up the switch this way. The movement result would only be valid if you check it on the On Success or On Fail outputs.

[faint sand]

why? i had a separate print for each output

not doubting you, just dont understand why it would matter

[dawn gazelle]

Because the movement result won't switch until you know the actual result.

[full dew]

I made a comparison clip of my screen and a tutorials screen

[dawn gazelle]

So either on fail or on success.

[faint sand]

i see what you mean... but in this scenario if it was failing it wouldnt even get to the switch since the fail wasnt hooked up

[languid hemlock]

i found out how to make one i called it ReverseInput only thing i get tho is Get or Set Reverse Input

[full dew]

I made a comparison clip of my screen and a tutorials screen

[dawn gazelle]

yes it would.

[faint sand]

ok, good to know

well ive already deleted the project, so ill put that check back in if the new test project runs into the same proble

thanks for letting me know

[dawn gazelle]

d'oh <_>

[faint sand]

yep, lol... i have a problem with starting things over and over and over again. im doing good on my actual real project, have only started over twice

once i get to a point where ive figured out a bunch of better ways to do things, it feels messy so i start over

ive done pretty good resisting that urge

[brazen merlin]

when you drag a var from the variable list out into the graph, you have those two options, get or set, based on what you need - that's how you use variables

[faint sand]

anyway, good night 🙂 thanks again

[supple bane]

Anyone have any idea why this isnt working?

[faint sand]

what exactly are you expecting that isnt happening

[supple bane]

Im trying to get the print string on the 2nd image to play

that is all

the button works on the first image and plays the first print string

[fathom wigeon]

Is anyone here particularly good with reading crash dump files?

[lunar gale]

is the function in your "Inventory" bp?

[supple bane]

Yes

[lunar gale]

[faint sand]

honestly no idea why it wouldnt work. when you press play, do you see the flow go through it at all (the red line thing)

[supple bane]

I dont see any flow, no

[faint sand]

which implies the exec isnt actually 'entering' the function, but i cant see any reason why. its not like you got anything complicated there

[supple bane]

well I dont see any for the button click either

wait nvm

[faint sand]

oh, on the top when running your game, you have a drop down in which you have to select what your monitoring

[supple bane]

yes I do, I forgot I turned it off earlier

mb

I see the flow for the first part, just not the 2nd

[faint sand]

no clue. sorry. its like 2+2=5 for some reason. i dont see any logical reason it wouldnt trigger the second print

is not executing the function evidently

i have something like 40 functions in my main project and ive never had that happen

[supple bane]

Yea ive been stuck for a little while now

thanks for trying

[faint sand]

try creating a new test function

[supple bane]

good idea

[faint sand]

with no pins

[lunar gale]

are you getting any errors?

[peak solstice]

Hello everyone. I'm a new guy to Unreal Engine 4, and I bumped into a Blueprint problem for Text Switching in Widgets.

[lunar gale]

@supple bane try creating a custom event that executes the function in inventoryBP and then try calling the custom event on clicked instead

[supple bane]

I have an error to work off of now

I think ik the problem now

[peak solstice]

Oh man, I'm nowhere near to inventory. You guys seem to know your stuff. (:D)

I managed to change text with BP interfaces for actors, but not text switching when activating an event like opening and closing doors.

[faint pasture]

@peak solsticeWhat causes Open Door to appear?

[supple bane]

Ive solved the problem, thanks for the help

[fathom wigeon]

Id love some help if anyone can assist. Is anyone here particularly good at reading crash dump files? I am currently having an issue with my shipping builds. What is happening is I can Play the shipping build 1 time, as soon as I exit and go back in its an immediate crash and just says "Fatal Error". I do not have this issue at all when I am launching the game using "right click on Uproject > Launch Game" I also do not have any errors in the editor either in my output log when doing the same repro steps.

[lunar gale]

@peak solstice As far as I know you have to remove widgets from display when you want them gone

you have a remove from parent node

[peak solstice]

where should I insert remove parent for names?

I used event tick, maybe it's that causing it?

[lunar gale]

I'm kinda new to UE too lol

[peak solstice]

same

[lunar gale]

yeah maybe you don't want whtaver you're setting there firing off every frame

[peak solstice]

I made it far to know how to make Press Vs Hold same button for prone and crouch

[peak solstice]

Is there an alternative for Event Tick?

I forgot to show this.
Should there be a branch here in this?

[lunar gale]

um, maybe a collision when you get close to the door?

i don't know what the situation is exactly

[peak solstice]

I prefer Box Collision Overlaps over LineByTrace via FPP Camera

for activation and widgets

[lunar gale]

what if you have a delay as long as the door opening/closing animation in between checks?

idk, maybe someone with a bigger brain can help tbh

[sturdy garnet]

currently it sumps my entire magazine because both ammo and max ammo are set to 25 by default, how would i make it only use the shots i have fired

[peak solstice]

Doors are activated by an Input which is (X) or [E]

[sturdy garnet]

if u gonna reply pls tag cos im gonna be off discord ty

[lunar gale]

oh @peak solstice try looking into the flip flop node

and have it go from open to closed

[languid hemlock]

tried moving it from the list onto the graph and it dissapears after wanting to connect it

[dawn gazelle]

https://blueprintue.com/blueprint/n2ypnyi2/

[peak solstice]

I'll try your advice

fail

[faint pasture]

@peak solsticeYou have 2 states, whether or not the door is open and whether or not the door is in range to show the popup.

When player enters trigger area, show the popup. When they leave, remove it.

When player activates the door, set bDoorIsOpen to NOT(bDoorIsOpen), then change the popup widget text and play the door opening timeline, both based on the current state of bDoorIsOpen

[peak solstice]

@faint pasture
I have this for doors opening a closings

[viscid arrow]

does anyone know how to get a specific actor from "get all actors from class"?

[supple bane]

Pretty new to messing with arrays,
can anyone help me understand why this isnt working

[peak solstice]

why print strings or are they only for tests?

[supple bane]

tests

[peak solstice]

gotcha 😉

@supple bane you only anything about texts for object names by any chance?

know*

[supple bane]

im not sure what you're asking

[peak solstice]

check my screenshots above and see

[dawn gazelle]

You can use an array "Get" but that means you need to know the index of the actor you're wanting to get.
What is the unique thing about the actor you're wanting to get out of the array?

[supple bane]

im doing it with names more as a test, ill be switching to getting the item class

[viscid arrow]

the characters movement component

[dawn gazelle]

What's not working about it? You could also check to see if the strings being fed into the comparator are the same by putting them into a print string as well.

[dawn gazelle]

Ok, but all the rest of those actors have the movement component too, yea?

[viscid arrow]

yeah, it's just affecting the first actor from the "get " node

[supple bane]

it doesnt proceed to 'scan slot for items' so im guessing its just having trouble accessing the inventory slot array

[dawn gazelle]

So that looks like you have nothing in your array currently if it's stopping there.

[peak solstice]

Shouldn

't there be a GET in that Array?

[viscid arrow]

not in that case

[dawn gazelle]

In the actor array, what actor is it that you want to pick out specifically? What is it about them that makes you want to get that one? Are they close to you? Are they the target of an attack? How are you supposed to know which actor it is you want to interact with?

[supple bane]

thats what I thought

but that shouldnt be the case

[dawn gazelle]

What are those objects?

[supple bane]

They are all widgets

they hold the information of what item they hold

[dawn gazelle]

That's a bad idea. Widgets shouldn't be used to hold game data, instead they should only represent data of something else. Say, an inventory component.
That aside, those Inventory Slots, they exist already in the widget itself (like you see them in the design view?)

[viscid arrow]

im hitting a actor, to which i apply a actor component to slow the walk speed of the actor, but since im using the "get" node it only applies the effect to the actor who spawned first, im trying to figure out how to apply the effect to the actor that the projectile hit ( photo for reference)

[supple bane]

no, they are only added through the construct script

[dawn gazelle]

So then they are only variables?

[supple bane]

yes

[graceful forum]

Hi all, I want to replace the reference of a replicated actor componant from an inheriting child BP class. Should I do this on ConstructionScript? And what happens to the events that are bound by the parent class, will they still be bound to the new reference?

[viscid arrow]

then there's no data

[dawn gazelle]

^

[supple bane]

they are all just from the inventoryslot class

[viscid arrow]

if the variables don't have any script added to them, they are just a shell

[dawn gazelle]

So you have a reference to the actor that was hit before you apply this effect and I'm guessing you're adding this slow debuff component to the actor that was hit. If that's the case, you should probably just be able to get the owner of the component and there's your ref.

[viscid arrow]

i'll try that

[dawn gazelle]

May need to cast it to your enemy class for now, but you may want to think about using an interface.

[supple bane]

so why can I not get the array now but Ive been able to before?

[viscid arrow]

because the string that you are looking for isn't added to the actual array

[supple bane]

the item info is

[dawn gazelle]

If those "Inventory Slot #" only exist as variables, and they do not have a widget assigned to them (like you can store the return variable of a create widget node in them) then they are effectively null. Adding those variables to an array when nothing is populated in them is like adding nothing to the array.

[viscid arrow]

it would be easier if you used a struct

[supple bane]

So I cant run code through individual slots?

[dawn gazelle]

This scenario, I have a widget I've added to another widget. This variable would be valid.

If I created a variable manually, like this "test" one...

[supple bane]

wait nvm im stupid

[dawn gazelle]

It doesn't have any widget assigned to it.

[supple bane]

the slots are actual widgets

not just variables thats mb

[dawn gazelle]

So they exist in the heirarchy of the main widget you're looking at?

[supple bane]

yes

sorry for the confusion

[blissful grail]

Is there a way to get the gamemode of a level prior to loading the level?

[brazen merlin]

cant get anything from a level if its not loaded

[blissful grail]

Well, I misspoke. I want to load it, configure it, then switch into it.

So, it should technically be loaded into memory.

[brazen merlin]

please clarify the "its"

[blissful grail]

I didn't say "its"

[brazen merlin]

..

[blissful grail]

I'm not sure what clarification you want

[brazen merlin]

load gamemode or level? configure gamemode or level? switch gamemode or levle?

[viscid arrow]

yeah it works, but it's affecting the first actor, im trying to find a substitute to "get all actors of class"

[blissful grail]

I want to place the umap into memory. But NOT switch to it. Then, I want to access the gamemode that is tied to that umap. Change some things and then switch to the umap.

So, load the umap. Configure the GM associated with the umap, then actually switch to it afterwards.

[dawn gazelle]

Getting the owner of the component should be what you need if you are adding the component to the actor that you're wanting to apply the debuff to.

[brazen merlin]

i dont get why you need to change things about the gamemode when the level isnt loaded, it should already have the settings. If you're trying to pass data between levels, you need to use game instance.

[graceful forum]

Can I bump this about replacing my actor component reference from a child class

[blissful grail]

Because I don't want my GI to have 239482374902387 variables for my game. I want things to be isolated. There shouldn't be a running count of things that don't even need to exist unless needed.

[dawn gazelle]

Maybe a silly question, but have you added the main widget to the screen before executing the scanforitems function?

[supple bane]

I add it to hierarchy then remove from parent onBeginPlay

[viscid arrow]

yeah it doesn't let me homie

[dawn gazelle]

Doesn't let you what?

[brazen merlin]

well you still cant affect anything about a level if its not loaded

[blissful grail]

So there is no possible way to load the map into memory and NOT switch to it immediately?

[brazen merlin]

maybe, but not by bp

[viscid arrow]

im trying to reference the function that i made in the actor blueprint but it requires a reference to the actor

[slate hound]

how do I get rid of this Return node in this interface function? I made an output then deleted it and now this return node won't leave... do I really have to delete the function and remake it?

[dawn gazelle]

Get the owner of the component, not the actor that you're using getactorofclass from.

[viscid arrow]

ok, now what?

[viscid arrow]

this is what it shows

[viscid arrow]

i see

[dawn gazelle]

That's the only way I found to do it myself 😢

[slate hound]

so sad... I have a bunch of stuff in the implementation already

[viscid arrow]

there's a "accessed none" error

nvm

it works

thanks alot Datura

[dawn gazelle]

I'm stumped on this one. You can check the length of the array before the loop, and it'll probably be 0 as that would be the only reason why that loop doesn't execute. If it's 0, that means the array has no values in it.

[supple bane]

how do I check the value?

/ length

[dawn gazelle]

Length node

[supple bane]

ty

so It will show the number of objects in the array? 0 means nothing in it?

[dawn gazelle]

Yep

[supple bane]

yea it came out as 0

when I scan the array from inventoryBP i get 6(which is whta im looking for)

[gentle urchin]

No.

Oh lol. realized it had already been answered.

[blissful grail]

Yeah and expanded upon.

[barren relic]

Hey guys! Does anyone have any suggestions on how to load another level when when say all ai on a map are slain? Say kill 10 enemies then you get a popup for the next level?

[dawn gazelle]

In your game state, do get all actors of class "Enemy" on begin play. The length of the array is the total number of enemies in the level - store that length in a variable on game state. When you defeat an enemy, do a call to game state to subtract one from that stored variable, and check if that variable is <= 0 (less than just for ensuring it gets called) and if it is, display your popup for the next level.

[gentle urchin]

^This but self registering Enemies instead

[dawn gazelle]

Stop optimizing me T_T

lol

[brazen merlin]

^ I was going to suggest the same 😛

dispatcher or bpi

[gentle urchin]

It would work the same way, but would suddenly allow several "waves" and whatnot

Guess its out of scope of the quesiton

[brazen merlin]

way to go Squize

[blissful grail]

I'd go with the dispatcher. Then tie their death to increment a counter in the game state. Each death the game state checks if the number of deaths equals the amount required set in the GameMode.

[brazen merlin]

thinking overly flexible as always

[gentle urchin]

Havnt had my coffee yet, shh 😛

https://tenor.com/view/yoda-coffee-baby-yoda-the-mandalorian-sipping-gif-15740988

[brazen merlin]

well since we're all saying our opinions on the matter... I would have the enemy broadcast their death (allows you to have other things to listen to this if you want) and keep track of deaths in game instance since you are changing levels. I say game instance because you can post final score of total kills but still work with per level kill counts for changing the level.

[brazen merlin]

is that Gizmo from Gremlins?

[gentle urchin]

Baby.Yoda

[brazen merlin]

thats Green Gizmo

another idea stolen by lucas films

[gentle urchin]

Did i even mess up the gif?

rip

having a hard time seeing the similarities

[supple bane]

any ideas on why this is inaccurate?

[brazen merlin]

is that Gizmo from Gremlins!?

[gentle urchin]

Ye 😛

[gentle urchin]

inaccurate how

[supple bane]

just different from the actual array

[brazen merlin]

thought it was an Ewok, another idea stolen by lucas films

[gentle urchin]

define "actual array"

what is the "actual array" i this context? what your widget is telling you?

[supple bane]

sorry im having trouble explaining it

it comes from the actual inventoryBP

instead of getting called from a reference

if I call the length from inventory itself, I get a length of 6(which is what im looking for)

if I call it from anywhere else, it comes back as 0

[dawn gazelle]

My guess would be that you're using a variable named "Inventory" without setting the actual instance of an inventory that it needs to be set to.

[gentle urchin]

Likely has errors aswell due to access none

[supple bane]

no thats not it

[gentle urchin]

Question numero dos: Is this multiplayer?

[supple bane]

no

[supple bane]

and yes i am getting this error

[gentle urchin]

Datura was right

[supple bane]

hm

[dawn gazelle]

What do I win? 😄

[gentle urchin]

Fame and glory 😄

A cup of coffee perhaps

https://tenor.com/view/omg-shocked-surprised-happy-so-excited-gif-15745701

[dawn gazelle]

lol

[icy dragon]

Blueprint Editor with hookers and blackjack

[gentle urchin]

So you need to set that variable before you try to access it 🙂

[supple bane]

onbeginplay?

[gentle urchin]

A reference variable is by default empty/null/nullptr

[supple bane]

or construct?

[gentle urchin]

Beginplay sounds more reasonable

[supple bane]

k

[gentle urchin]

being an inventory

dont really have any knowledge of your setup so cant really give good reliable advice in such context

its all guesswork

[supple bane]

yea fs

thanks

[gentle urchin]

Thank Datura! 😄

[supple bane]

it works now, thank u both so much

[willow cedar]

What would be the best way to create a melee system for different weapons? Like, should I make all the weapons different blueprints, then put the coding in each of them for how they work?

[brazen merlin]

maybe better to have a parent class since they are all melee, then child classes modify the parent setup - collision, mesh visual, etc

try to list out all the features you want, then see what are common across all weapons

[willow cedar]

That is really good advice. Thanks! I'll take a look at it.

Is there any way to get any of these inputs in an Actor Component?

Or what would be the most proper way to handle this.

[brazen merlin]

this has yet to be defined

[willow cedar]

Like, should I just put all my inputs on a Controller BP, and then have this pull the events from a cast?

[brazen merlin]

i suppose. Player inputs usually go in Controller or Character/Pawn

you dont really want it all over the place, but maybe you do 🙂

[willow cedar]

Yeah, I have everything setup in my Character atm

I'd rather move it to a Player Controller

[brazen merlin]

then what's with the question about actor component?

[willow cedar]

I wanted to have controller inputs do stuff in the Component

I didn't have a central area for controls yet, so I'm going to work on that now

[brazen merlin]

would still think its better to have the input event not all the component

is this mp?

[willow cedar]

Yes

[brazen merlin]

ah that makes sense

you can still have inputs on character

or mix between controller and character

[willow cedar]

Yeah, currently it's all on character, but I think for Organization sake, it will be best for me to put it all on a controller BP

That way multiple characters can have the same control inputs already done.

[brazen merlin]

usually you want movement and such on the character, while non-character specific inputs like opening menu are in controller

[willow cedar]

What about something like an attack?

[brazen merlin]

anything that needs to talk to the character to do something, would go there

menu, push to talk, things like that are on controller

those areNT character dependant

[willow cedar]

Ah, okay. Makes sense.

So like the player controller can still use inputs even when the character is destroyed or whatnot?

[brazen merlin]

right

[willow cedar]

That makes a lot of sense

[brazen merlin]

they cant move, but they can still open menus

[willow cedar]

Yeah

[brazen merlin]

cool

[dire frigate]

shouldn't I be able to set the relative location of a scene component?

https://i.imgur.com/OYzI9fq.png

[brazen merlin]

is it the root?

[willow cedar]

I'm doing a Melee attack system for a specific weapon on a component. In case I want to swap my way of attacking, I just change components out. That's the best idea I came up with.

[dire frigate]

Not sure what root means in this contex, but I'm editing the event graph for my first person character blueprint

[brazen merlin]

also, im pretty sure the sets are functions, not var

[dire frigate]

just right clicked out in space

oh they are

that's right

mb i got it :)

[brazen merlin]

sounds good to me - whatever weapon is held can pass its data to the character or whatever to adjust things like anims, damage vars, etc

[willow cedar]

I was wondering, would I call animations on the Character, or do it in the Component?

[brazen merlin]

we're talking locomotion anims yeah?

[willow cedar]

No clue. Probably?

[brazen merlin]

like different idles?

[willow cedar]

I think so yeah

Like just stuff done on the rig exported into the game engine

[brazen merlin]

idle, walk, run, jump - those are locomotion

[willow cedar]

Yeah

[brazen merlin]

attack anim, hit reactions - those are montages

they are one offs

[willow cedar]

Then yes, the one offs

[brazen merlin]

your weapon holds all of that

both types anyways

you can have a function on your character to call the attack - get damage, play montage, etc - and you'd have vars for the inputs for that function

the vars are set by whatever weapon is currently held

[willow cedar]

Sweet. I guess my next question is, how do I hold an animation on a frame I want until I release a button in a Montage

[gentle urchin]

Sounds more like a locomotion state then

[brazen merlin]

what mean "hold"?

[eternal reef]

You could also use sections in your montage which loop until you release your button

[willow cedar]

Like, I have a sword swing anim, and at the build up for the swing, I want to keep that pose until I release my attack button

[eternal reef]

Something like
Press Button -> Play Montage (with Sections -> Play until loop, which repeats)
Release -> Play Next Section of Montage

[willow cedar]

How would I choose where it stops and loops?

[gentle urchin]

yeah i supose sections would also work 😛

[brazen merlin]

you set these sections in the montage

[dire frigate]

So when making a smooth crouch event, I set my capsule half height. I currently don't have a crouching animation, and shifting my capsule half height basically moves my entire character (i.e lowering it will lower my character through the floor, increasing it will make my character go into the air). Is this just something that needs to be compensated with using an animation and shifting my mesh's z-axis? It seems my hitbox works as intended, so I can still walk and actually crouch under things, but visually my feet are in the floor

[brazen merlin]

i sorta skimmed this 😅 I read "smooth crouch" - you should use a timeline to interp the value

[dire frigate]

I did that

[eternal reef]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTMDQhrOfVU&t=205s
Shortly shows montage sections
Most descriptions you find are using the old interface, but this might help

[willow cedar]

Thanks

[brazen merlin]

then something is wrong with the setup

[dire frigate]

?

my crouch works, it's just the tidbit where visually my character's feet goes through the floor

[brazen merlin]

oh i see, so the mesh looks odd but the collision is alright

[dire frigate]

exactly

[brazen merlin]

not that i know how, but you could use IK on the legs so they are responding to the geomtry

[dire frigate]

I'm asking if I need to just use an animation and change my mesh's z-axis or if I'm just doing something wrong overall to be moving my whole character

I'll look into that in a bit, since I've never heard of it 👀

[brazen merlin]

i would think an animation would work though

never done crouch like that

[dire frigate]

how come?

it's kind of weird to snap to the lowest part of your crouch

[brazen merlin]

lol i mean ive not done a crounching 3rd person character before

[dire frigate]

I'm first person 👁️

[brazen merlin]

oh, but there's a player mesh

[dire frigate]

yep

[brazen merlin]

ive done fps, but you cant see your feet

[dire frigate]

I was thinking that I'll just be hiding my body anyway

but for the sake of learning I've not set that

[brazen merlin]

still the idea of using IK in engine to calculate legs as they crouch since its dependent on the collider update

[eternal reef]

The movement is based on the capsule that you are using
If it is reduced in size, its main priority is to have the bottom of it on the ground, it basically ignores the mesh, for which reason it gets pushed into the ground
Just having an animation that suits the height of the capsule that you set works

[dire frigate]

sweet

I'll look at finding one

[willow cedar]

How would I loop part of the Montage?

[brazen merlin]

that's where i was thinking your setup was wrong 😛

[dire frigate]

sidenote, does it sound proper to use bps for character/widget/scene control flows and use c++ for things like calculations/inventory management/etc.?

oh dw, you were right, I didn't make it clear that it worked haha

[brazen merlin]

you missed this #blueprint message

[hexed cloak]

Doing VOIP setup, new players joining the server don't have the sound attenuation so their voice goes cross map?

[eternal reef]

Let me quickly check one of my projects
Yeah unfortunately its not explicitly mentioned in that video

[north hedge]

Yeah this didn't end up being the issue 😐

[brazen merlin]

#virtual-reality ?

[north hedge]

Yeah its more to do with the BP but cheers I'll post it there

[eternal reef]

Basically something like that

You can ignore the "End" Section
All you need is Default -> LoopStart (Loops)
LoopEnd

[willow cedar]

I think this works?

I just don't exactly know how to set this up in BP

I've done anim montages before, but not with sections

[hollow granite]

hello everyone,
i am trying to call events from an actor that i saved inside a variable. I find the actor through a linetrace from the mouse, basically its the actor that is currently under my mouse-cursor. I checked already that the variable gets set correctly. But neither the cursor-overlap nor the on-clicked event get fired. any idea what the problem is?

[willow cedar]

Oh wait, I think I got it. It just keeps looping until the animation montage finishes

Sweet, I got it working. This is very nice.

[eternal reef]

you can also define which section it should play next with this

[willow cedar]

What does that do?

[eternal reef]

You can switch to an arbitrary section in your montage if required
Like switching from Loop back to Default
just as an example

[brazen merlin]

you can change which section to play next. For example, you have a combo montage of 5 different punches, they can play sequentially, or you can specify the section of the 5 to jump to

Loop back to Default is a good example, very handy

[willow cedar]

Ah, okay. Sweet

Is there a way to prioritize a Montage, so another one doesn't trigger? Like right now I can hold down my attack, but if I do something else while doing so, the anim montage for that will play over it.

[gentle urchin]

you could block it by checking if montage is already playing

[brazen merlin]

anim montage should play over locomotion, you can override locomotion using slots

you do need to cache the locomotion and blend the slot using layered blend per bone

[eternal reef]

I think theres a Tutorial on YT for montage priority
Handy if you want to be able to prevent montages from playing at the same time, but still allowing it to cancel them in certain ways

[willow cedar]

Montage is playing works

It was another montage playing over it.

[willow cedar]

I'll probably need to do this for other things down the line

[brazen merlin]

oh, different montages... what Squize said

[willow cedar]

What needs to be the Target for this?

[gentle urchin]

It gives you a hint 😄

[brazen merlin]

if you use multiple slots, you'll need to control the layered blend per bone to prioritize which plays of which

[willow cedar]

Ah, I guess a better question is what is an Anim Instance?

[brazen merlin]

get your Mesh, from that get Anim Instance

its the anim bp instance on your character mesh

[willow cedar]

Is that something that needs to be set up beforehand?

[eternal reef]

Its the "framework" how your character handles animations
Third Person Character from UE4 has a pre-built if you are using that one

[willow cedar]

I think I got it working

[grave relic]

Does anyone here have any ides on how to calculate the diffrerence between two numbers? Lets say i have two ints 22 and 8 and i want to get the difference between them so from 22 to 8 it 14

[remote meteor]

minus then absolute

[grave relic]

Thx it was the absolute node i was looking for ^^

[sturdy herald]

Hello. How can i add a trail to a Pawn, if its moved by the Character with Contorl rig?

[neat stream]

Is box trace much more expensive than 4 or 5 linetrace ?

[willow cedar]

Thanks for all the help today everyone. I made a good amount of progress on my project, and everyone here has really helped me understand a lot of things I haven't before.

[drifting rapids]

hay can someone help me with something basic? I'm just trying to get a widget to work, I made a button on the widget and I'm trying to click it but whenever I play in editor, the button wont register anything, like the button doesnt exist even though its on the screen, I have an onhovered event, but even though the mouse cursor is hovering over it, its not doing anything on the blueprint at all.

[eternal reef]

Did you set the input mode?

[drifting rapids]

whats that?

game +ui?

that thing?

[eternal reef]

Yeah, when you display the widget, use that afterwards and select the widget

[drifting rapids]

I just added the widget directly in front of the player camera

is there a better way to do it?

[eternal reef]

Is there any reason why you did it that way or was that just a general attempt of displaying the widget?

[drifting rapids]

just a general attempt

i didnt know how to do it properly, i want these buttons to always be on screen

[eternal reef]

Aight gotcha
If you want it to be displayed right at the start
Event Begin Play -> Create Widget (Pick your widget class) -> Pull the return value out and use add to viewport

This just makes it visible on your "Camera"
If you want to interact with it you need to use "Set Input Mode UI Only" for example

[drifting rapids]

ok well that made the widget work but disabled the touch controls

so now when the widget is focused by the mouse it wont accept any touch input

how do i have both going at once so i can touch the button

[eternal reef]

via Set Input Mode you can define whether you only want Game Input, UI Input or Both at the same time

Might work when using both

[drifting rapids]

nope doesnt work

for some reason clicking the ui disables the touch controls

[eternal reef]

Did you try focusing it? Not really familiar with touch input tbh

[drifting rapids]

yeah doesnt work

must be a limitation of ue4

cant have touch input and ui working at the same time

which is retarded

it should work

might have to make a custom touch input hud

[eternal reef]

Seems to be a common issue when googling it
https://answers.unrealengine.com/questions/541635/touch-buttons-dont-work.html
Maybe this works no idea, but there are a few posts on the ue forum, you might find a suitable answer

[drifting rapids]

thank you i'll take a look

nah the answer there didnt work for me

apparently the canvas in the widget block touch controls I'll have to remove that from the widget

[keen solstice]

Someone know if it's possible to set texture hue through blueprint? Not a material, a texture

[fiery glen]

this would normally be an instanced material parameter?

not sure exactly what you mean

[keen solstice]

I want to recolor a paper flipbook but since it doesn't use materials IDK how to access the HUE from a texture

I want to set this value using blueprints, is this even possible?

[fiery glen]

I guess a hue shift node with a parameter value would work

[keen solstice]

This is exactly my problem, I must change the texture, not a material because flipbooks can't use materials, only textures 😦

[fiery glen]

well, I have no great ideas then

I'm pretty sure flipbooks use a material from what I can see here

never touched this stuff

[keen solstice]

I'll keep trying, just found a "cast to texture" node, maybe this will work... anyway thank you for the help!

Uh, I'll try asking at this channel, thank you for the tip 🙂

[autumn shard]

Hi, what is the best way to sort a list of float? contained by a map or a datatable
smaller to bigger for example

[gentle urchin]

Manually

[autumn shard]

there is no other way? what if your table has 20-40 lines?

[gentle urchin]

What about it? Just sort it xD

[autumn shard]

ok I see, through this node right?

[gentle urchin]

probably not if this is a struct from a datatable

[autumn shard]

I don't see any other node sorting.
I can still get an array from the datatable no?

[gentle urchin]

Get Datatable Rows,

then you need to fetch the data

store it in an array, and make a function for sorting it

[autumn shard]

I see, thanks for the hint, I'll start working on it!

[velvet forum]

Hello How are everyone
good morning

how can i get nearest actor
then find the second nearest actor then third actor etc?

[woeful pelican]

From what I'm reading it looks like you're gonna have to get all relevant actors, then compare the distance of them and order them that way

For example

This I believe gets the closest distance

What I'd try is to find something that orders the actors based on the 'get distance to' node

[gentle urchin]

Had a function for this a while ago

This sorts the actor array based on distance

@velvet forum

[remote meteor]

if you only use distance for comparison

use distance squared instead

ur cpu will thank you

[gentle urchin]

How much does it matter ?

Any comparisons on it? Is it.. twice as fast? 😅 yeah its a good habbit to pick the better/faster method slightly less accurate but wouldnt matter here

[raw orbit]

how do I go about creating a child of an anim blueprint using a different skeleton? ive done it before but ive completely forgotten. >_<

if i have cats and dogs id rather avoid having two fairly similar anim blueprints to manage if they can just share one parent

think i managed it

[tawdry surge]

Depends on your game I suppose.. I have separate animations for male and female characters cuz they move a lil differently. I'd pry keep cats and dogs separate too for the same reason

[warped spindle]

Compiling shaders are too slow than usual. I Tried to comple 120 shaders and that took 1h, 120 shaders before was just 3-4 minutes or even 1 minute sometimes.

[velvet forum]

Hello
https://streamable.com/t6j62v
look thats work !!
thanks

[gentle urchin]

Sweet😄

[maiden wadi]

120? O.o Whenever our tech artist changes stuff, it's immediately 6k to 30k. 😄 5900x noms on them though.

[gentle urchin]

Nice to see there's not only Green players around

[carmine thunder]

Hey I am trying to try some networking on Unreal. I am playing as a client but whenever I play it. It does give me the control over the default main player

what might be the issue?

[velvet forum]

Thank you very muchhhh 😁😁😁😁

[pallid axle]

Why is it so complicated to get a simple variable from another blueprint

[earnest tangle]

You may wanna try on #graphics

[jaunty solstice]

Hi guys
I need to iterate thru an array of vertices.

The assumption is that the vertices are all in sequential order, ie positioned next to each other on the actual static mesh.

How can I sort the array so that this is accomplished?

[tawdry surge]

Sort

[open sedge]

anyone know how to make sliders snap to certain points througout the slider?

so it snaps to like 0% 25% 50% 100% etc

[eternal reef]

Just a guess, set value is between x and y -> 25% and so on?

[open sedge]

hm?

[versed sun]

set these setting

if you want it 0 to 1, make step size .25 and max value 1

[open sedge]

Thanks!

works perfectly

:0

[versed sun]

np

[open sedge]

my main fear is idk how to save all these options lol

like will they reset after they restart

or does ue4 auto save those

video settings

[versed sun]

those wont, but default value will

[open sedge]

yeah

[versed sun]

have you used Saved Game ?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4usRrTiqak&ab_channel=MathewWadstein

[mystic bough]

does anyone know what causes widgets to return invalid...?
my progress bar that very clearly exists has decided to not be valid.

[versed sun]

are you looking for it on Construct? add a 0.0 delay before looking for it sometimes helps me

[earnest tangle]

If it returns invalid then it doesn't exist

[mystic bough]

accessing it via interface. I'll add a delay there real quick to make sure, but it wasn't being accessed until 5~ seconds after play

[brazen pike]

I've had that problem too, where I'll set it as a variable between create widget and add to viewport, but it will be return as invalid everytime for no reason

[mystic bough]

yeah, still invalid lol

[versed sun]

ooo, sometimes my widgets get bugged , I have to save and restart project and things work different

https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/umg-user-created-widget-not-updating-until-engine-restart/224312

[earnest tangle]

I would check that you're assigning the widget correctly

It's kind of difficult to say from the screenshot, but it's always possible you're not using the same variable, or the initialization runs after the point where you try to access it (you can for example use Print nodes to see what order stuff runs in)

[mystic bough]

yeah debugging it now, really irritating bug because it's initialized on begin play and isn't called until I click on something

[earnest tangle]

That sounds like it should work then, assuming the object with the begin play is initialized

So beyond that it might be not assigned into the variable

[warped spindle]

:)) i know 120 it's not much at all ,but i used that to make a compare.

[visual dune]

I was able to isolate this error to this part of my blueprint.

[earnest tangle]

The player controller might not exist when it runs

Since I think that would be accessing an array to get it

[visual dune]

it runs when i click a ui button

[earnest tangle]

Try disconnecting the spawn node and see if it still errors out

[versed sun]

Project restart fixed Widget problem?

yup, im working with widgets now and have to restart a few times an hour

[visual dune]

IVe tried that, im still getting the same issue

[gentle urchin]

Its an array thats causing the error

Is the class ur spawning doing something with an array at beginplay?

[earnest tangle]

@visual dune if you disconnect the spawn node and it still errors out, this is then not the cause for it

also I mean disconnect as in remove the exec pin :)

[visual dune]

Oh, i tried that and yeah it doesnt crash

[visual dune]

I will look for anything

[earnest tangle]

Yeah I think Squize is onto something if it only crashes when the spawn runs :)

[visual dune]

Yeah i tried spawning a different actor and it didnt work, so i gotta find the issue with my actor

Its weird because it only crashes when compiled to a shipping game but doesnt when tested in editor.

[gentle urchin]

Things happen a tad different in shipping game

The root issue is not checking validity of index ur trying to access

[versed sun]

U45 doesn't let you click on errors and jump to the problem ?

[gentle urchin]

#ue5-general would probably know

[trim matrix]

Hi kaos, i setted up everything (curves, turn anims) and tried what u told me, it seems to work for the detection but i'm struggling with retrieving curve values etcc to interp the root yaw, everything i tried just doesn't do what i want 😐 any chance you help me pls ??

I took the epic sample to understand how they do with curves but yeah they got the same issue

i setted up my curves like that

TurnAnim is a metadata so i can detect if a turn anim is playing

[hot lotus]

Hi everyone, I am trying to do a RepNotify on a struct variable but when I am using the "Set members in MyStruct" node, the OnRep function only get's called on the client and not on the server. Is there a workaround for this? I am using Unreal 4.27

[gentle urchin]

Why would you need it called on the server ? Server is setting the struct var, no?

[hot lotus]

It is not getting called on the listen server* So the host does not see it

[gentle urchin]

Do other clients see it ?

If not, then it doesnt sound like you're replicating anything

[hot lotus]

Yes other clients see it

[gentle urchin]

Guess its a #multiplayer problem then

[hot lotus]

Ok thank you

[gentle urchin]

Does it sound reasonable to surround "waters" and "lakes" with a spline to attatch any dock/fishinghut to , in a city-builder ?

[brazen merlin]

oh i see, so that you have "build points" specifically around water sources

[gentle urchin]

Exactly

Not sure what sorcery i'd need to come up with otherwise x)

[brazen merlin]

yeah.... somehow you have to check if the building placement is within the proximity of the spline or whatever...

[gentle urchin]

thats fine, i'd use a manager for that and just check all the splines really

[brazen merlin]

what about physical materials?

[gentle urchin]

"getclosestLocation to world location" works wonders ^^

hmm... well i could but ... troublesome?

i'd still need some weird snap logic for it i think

[brazen merlin]

i dunno how your system all works, i was thinking of a line trace when the player tries to place it

[gentle urchin]

Thats how it currently works

doing a linetrace per meter

[brazen merlin]

then you could line trace for that physical material

[gentle urchin]

of the "area" the building would require

[brazen merlin]

per meter..... so you need to check multiple spots? could still determine that through physical material i think, just need enough checks to satisfy that there is enough water

im thinking of the Settlers games actually, but they show a grid of dots that range from red to green to inform you of building spots

[gentle urchin]

thats my inspiration, mostly

[brazen merlin]

so do you show build spots?

[gentle urchin]

No, that part i removed

[brazen merlin]

alright well, physical materials seems like a direction, or else go with spline

id lean on physical materials for the fact that if you change the water shape you wont have to update a spline as well

[gentle urchin]

This is a pure "water" building, but it shows how i currently place them atleast

[willow cedar]

So I have a Actor that refills a players Gas, but the issue is that it checks every tick for the IF part. I want it to smoothly add gas to the tank, but don't really know how to do that without event tick.

[gentle urchin]

there's a few traces going on while moving it around

[brazen merlin]

well looks like you already got spline going?

[gentle urchin]

Figured just using splines would solve alot of it, and avoid some weird edge cases

like the X rotation while doing Y makes Z happens ..

spline is just... spline 😄

[spark steppe]

you could use a timer instead of the tick event

basically you start the timer when the overlap happens, and invalidate it when the overlap stops
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qc5WpNq7RFg

[brazen merlin]

i think i have a picture of this setup

[gentle urchin]

with physical material and traces, wouldnt I need to orient it to the direction of the ocean aswell? Along with moving it to a "desired % of water/land split for the building"

[brazen merlin]

see thats the parts i dont know, because i didnt build your building manager system dealy 😄

[gentle urchin]

its just an Actor following the mouse world location x)

[brazen merlin]

Here ya go, replace the custom events with your overlaps

[brazen merlin]

so intricate!

[willow cedar]

Dude, thanks! This is great!

[spark steppe]

but don't use world delta as time, if you want to update 10 times per second you go with 1/10 = 0.1

[gentle urchin]

trace is just checking for "landscape" or "water" tag

[brazen merlin]

then what about spline?

[gentle urchin]

if all traces hit, and are of the correct tag, i accept the location

I dont have the spline yet, was just looking for ideas on it ^^

[brazen merlin]

oh, that's for those that need land and water?

[gentle urchin]

IF it sounded like a reasonable way to go or not

yes exactly

[umbral ginkgo]

How can I make line traces pass through the character?

[brazen merlin]

nice try Squize, but this is #blueprint 😛

[gentle urchin]

busted !

[brazen merlin]

dont allow the character to block it

[spark steppe]

you can pass an array of characters/actors to ignore

[umbral ginkgo]

When I tried that it didnt work

[spark steppe]

yea, or remove the character from the trace channel at all

[brazen merlin]

but then, you just need like at least 40% of each right? give a 20% fudge?

[gentle urchin]

Yeah that sounds reasonable

[brazen merlin]

can tune them as you need

[gentle urchin]

and probably a side that fixed needs to be Land (for entry point)

[brazen merlin]

i was thinking that too, didnt know if you want to do that, but yeah

[gentle urchin]

so first row of traces needs to hit land, then the rest split 40% with 20% give or take

[brazen merlin]

maybe not in half, but definitely a side

[gentle urchin]

Ill try that

i'd prefer not doing the splines really

procedurally making them very nice would be,.. a challenge

[brazen merlin]

is it grid like? the way you trace check?

[gentle urchin]

yes

[brazen merlin]

so if its a 4x4 building, you just need the first column for water and the last column for land no?

first column being the "front" (or whatever you call it)

[gentle urchin]

Exactly

[brazen merlin]

seems less error prone to ignore the middle then

[gentle urchin]

Hmm

[brazen merlin]

i guess unless its a really long building...

[gentle urchin]

that actually makes sense in many ways 😄

[brazen merlin]

structurally speaking right?

[gentle urchin]

this is the parameters for it currently

yes exactly ;P

[brazen merlin]

ah gotcha

because in the video, i think i saw that you are also checking depth

[gentle urchin]

foundation height determines the difference in terrain that i accept accross the entire building area

Yes i am

On water im aligning to water surface, and checking depth to ensure building reaches

[spark steppe]

you both should meet for a candle light dinner

[brazen merlin]

well i hope it works in execturion

[brazen merlin]

what kind of candles?

[umbral ginkgo]

This doesn't ignore the player when looking at the line trace draw for some reason

[spark steppe]

megascans

[brazen merlin]

i'll probably be late then 🥲

[spark steppe]

because you don't set the array when it's not connected to the execution flow

[versed sun]

set out actors isnt pluged in

[brazen merlin]

your get actors isn't getting anything and the set is not connected

[umbral ginkgo]

Oh wow

ok yes i missed that

[spark steppe]

and you may have to pick a class

[umbral ginkgo]

Geez i missed everything

[pliant jewel]

Is there a way to quickly check what other levels are loaded?

[spark steppe]

not in blueprint

[pliant jewel]

I'll go ask in #cpp haha

[gentle urchin]

so close. Wrong sides. Ty for the help!

[viscid arrow]

im trying to make a projectile that chains to enemies after initial hit, any tips?

[umbral ginkgo]

I know this system sucks. What should be done differently

[viscid arrow]

what are you trying to do

[flat coral]

You're basically not using the gate at all, you're just making your own gate with the boolean

[umbral ginkgo]

Thats what I thought

thing is idk how id check and see if the player presses "e" in the gate

[flat coral]

Well what happens if they HOLD e?

[spark steppe]

the same

as when they press it

[flat coral]

Right now, yeah. I'm just wondering what you're trying to do with Tick at all

[umbral ginkgo]

In short im trying to make a interaction system

for a button or something like that

[flat coral]

I guess what I'm saying is, if you can only spawn while overlapping, just delete tick, delete the gate, rename your bool "IsOverlapping" and you're golden

[umbral ginkgo]

Oh my god

I overthink everything

[spark steppe]

overengineer

[gentle urchin]

my speciality !

[flat coral]

Doors are not your friends in my game

[pulsar rampart]

Hey Guys I need some help i want to make if the player loses the same level restarts but i don't know how so can anyone help plz?

[tawdry surge]

Load level by name

But that will reset the whole level completely

[pulsar rampart]

This one?

[pulsar rampart]

ik

[viscid arrow]

yes

[maiden wadi]

Usually Open Level

[remote meteor]

Open level

[flat coral]

Is there a way to change how much force an object moves with if you're using SetRelativeLocation?

Other than just speeding it up

I dont want it to move faster, but if an object gets hit by this I want it to get absolutely fucking rocked

[merry cobalt]

You could implement Physics.

[flat coral]

The other object is already phys enabled

[woven hearth]

Heya i have problem with this error

[flat coral]

it already gets moved by this, I just want it to get moved MORE

[versed sun]

dosnt checking Sweep make it collide ?

[flat coral]

Nah sweep makes it stop when it hits. This thing should stop for nothing

[versed sun]

ok

[woven hearth]

The part of that code

[maiden wadi]

EventHit, add impulse to the other actor.

[merry cobalt]

Have you tried adding force or yea Impulse.

[flat coral]

Ach, I knew that would work, but I had hoped there was a better way

[faint sand]

how do you get this debug info on screen?

[bold phoenix]

Do you know if there is a node to modify ISO, shutter speed, aperture etc, from blueprint

[faint sand]

Got it - " ' " key

[versed sun]

If you click the Make Post Processing Setting , you get a list of ALLL the setting in Details Window

[viscid arrow]

how does one make so you can make a actor bounce to a set location

[maiden wadi]

Depends on the use case.

You can add a projectile movement component to it and launch it, or interpolate it's movement yourself in it's tick.

[viscid arrow]

making it so it moves to the closest actor upon hit

[maiden wadi]

Like picking up coins or something?

[viscid arrow]

like chain lightning

projectile hits actor then chains to other actors

[maiden wadi]

Oh! My brain is in literal mode. I took bounce literally.

[viscid arrow]

been there

[maiden wadi]

Uh. Basically just an iteration loop. Choose first target. Get targets around first target, run through a distance check to get the closest, make sure it hasn't hit that target yet, return closest non hit target. Repeat for that target, repeat for that target, etc.

[viscid arrow]

that part i understand, is the actual movement part that i don't get

[rain moss]

anyone know how to get a microsecond in blue print?

[viscid arrow]

on duration put .001

[rain moss]

I'm trying to pass a microsecond as data to an SDK

not trying to wait for a microsecond

so microsecond as a timestamp

c++ works as well

i see something called fraction nano but unsure of what it is

[viscid arrow]

that's beyond my knowledge, sorry

[rain moss]

it's alright, thanks for your help!

[earnest flax]

Hello guys, could someone tell me how to make the camera in flying template like in the third person character template, I mean when you move with mouse the camera moves as well

[viscid arrow]

you mean that the camera locks to where the mouse is at?

[maiden wadi]

What are you trying to do?

[rain moss]

Getting the microseconds that passed between two date time stamps

[maiden wadi]

I'm not sure you're going to get much finer than Milliseconds in BP. C++ has access to the actual tick count, which registers the time in 100ns increments.

[earnest flax]

yes

like when you move with mouse the camera moves as well

and looks from different angle

[viscid arrow]

https://youtu.be/DO6YhXaonKw

is this what you are looking for

[main lake]

Any idea on how I can add the object itself to an array in the GM without having 10 Add nodes depending on the enumeration item selected in the Details panel in unreal editor ?

Like I do have 1 node set for the Roll Call Triggers, but I don't want to have 10 things like that for each element of the enumeration, I don't know if it's possible ?

[earnest flax]

oh thanks

[spark steppe]

try to plugin all to one add node, if that doesn't work you can use a "append" node, drag from the input array and choose "make array"

then add all your items to the temporary array that you append to the other one

wait you got 10 arrays where you want to add the same item too?

[main lake]

no

I want to add the object itself to the right array depending on the selected item in the Enum

[spark steppe]

then trag from the input and search for select

use the enum as index

[main lake]

like so ?

[spark steppe]

yes

[bold phoenix]

Thanks

[spark steppe]

now you should be able to connect the arrays

you most likely don't need your switch node at all then

[main lake]

hold on

it has only 1 return value, so how does it know which array to add it to ?

[spark steppe]

you connect your arrays to the enum values

and use the output of the select as input for the add to array node

[main lake]

like so ?

[spark steppe]

yes

[main lake]

thank you

[bold phoenix]

What's your camera in the set node? When I try to plug a cine camera component or a camera component it's not working

[versed sun]

that was just a normal Camera Component in a blueprint

i never messed with cine cameras, dunno if it has a post processing part or not

[bold phoenix]

Oh okay, there is two "set post process settings" node

I would rather not Messe with them but unfortunately noraml camera are missing certain physical element like foacal length

[peak solstice]

I need help with text switching for Widgets. Open will not disappear when doors are opened

I'm using a BP_Interface called Get Name

[maiden wadi]

What is your Widget Hierarchy?

[peak solstice]

Yes, I need help with it

Widget appears on Overlap begins, disappears when you leave box collision, that works. My issue is when I open the door, the previous default text (Open Doors) when door is closed will not disappear when I open the doors. It is hiding behind Close Doors text

My widget is called Name_Widget

[maiden wadi]

If your widget hierarchy only has one textblock, then you're adding that widget to the screen multiple times.

[peak solstice]

So is the issue the Interface or Widget with Binding?

Explain Widget Hierarchy, I'm very new to UE4

[maiden wadi]

Widget Hierarchy is the list of widgets you've added in the designer. It's a nested hierarchy of widgets.

More likely the issue is that you've added that widget to screen more than once.

[peak solstice]

If I remove the On Component Overlap Begin from this branch, I remove the text switch problem but I will end up with no default text when first time arriving to the door prior pressing X

@maiden wadi
What do I need to do here?

[maiden wadi]

Nothing. If that is your hierarchy, then your widget is most likely getting added to screen multiple times. Where do you create and add this widget?

[peak solstice]

@maiden wadi
I added the widget to the door's collision.
Xbox Button Widget works fine, so does it's color changes when pressed
But the other widget the Name one is broken

[maiden wadi]

Yeah. Multiple components are going to overlap on that. So you're adding several widgets to screen on overlap.

You need to create a widget, set it in that variable like you're doing, but before you create it, check if the pointer is valid and in viewport.

[peak solstice]

So component overlaps...
So it acts like an event tick?

[maiden wadi]

No.

Your character by default has at least two components. More if you've added any. Anything with collision in that door's overlap type will trigger that. So if your capsule and your skeletal mesh trigger the overlap, that's two overlaps.

The casted actor will of course pass for both, because both belong to it when they trigger it.

[peak solstice]

My character has even more components, It has box collision on both arms plus an FPP camera on its head

Should I replace On CompnentOverlap Begin?

[maiden wadi]

You just need to control your widget creation.

Between the cast and the Create there needs to be logic checking if the widget was already created and put in that pointer. If widget is not valid, create it and add it to viewport. If it was valid, check if it's in viewport. If it is not in viewport, add it to viewport without creating a new one. If it is created and is in viewport, then do nothing, it's already where you want it.

[mild ibex]

how would I set a toggle for an axis mapping, basically im using a trigger on a controller to zoom into something, and on release i want it to do nothing, which is happening, but the next time i press the trigger i want it to zoom out, or maybe press a button to actually toggle it, maybe A, either way all ive been able to get to happen for an AXIS mapping is zoom in or out only, im assuming its because its on tick
Ive tried the flip flop, tried doing an action mapping instead but I just cant figure it out, I can sort out the rest of the code but a toggle is really throwing me off

[peak solstice]

checking if widget is valid?
How do I do that? Do I add branches with boolean variables?

[maiden wadi]

IsValid the pointer you've put it in.

[gentle urchin]

flipflop sounds like what you'd want really . How come it didnt work?

you just gotta gate the tick

for the flipflop

so it only happens once per "press"

[maiden wadi]

@peak solsticeShould look vaguely like this.

[mild ibex]

how

only "gate" ive seen is a timer, but that isnt really what im getting at

[gentle urchin]

AxisValue > 0

compared to a bool

[mild ibex]

setting that as the condition?

for the branch that is

[gentle urchin]

like a Do Once really

[mild ibex]

right

[gentle urchin]

which is reset on 0 input

[willow cedar]

I've been making my Melee system on a Actor component. Is there a way to do an Overlap Event/Overlap Check in there?

[gentle urchin]

which then again can toggle a second bool, which acts as your flipflop

[mild ibex]

so along the lines of this?

[gentle urchin]

sequence and 3 branches and 2 bools..

[peak solstice]

Oh wow, looks nice, I'll give it a try tonight after work. Will you be up here tonight by any chance?

[flat coral]

Hmm, let's say I wish PhysicalMaterials had additional properties (EG "CollisionDamageMultiplier" which tells actors how much it hurts to hit it). How would I go about adding those fields?

Considered:

• Subclassing PhysicalMaterial (doesn't seem to be a legal option when applying the physmat to a Material)
• Having a map somewhere from PhysicalMaterial to an additional SMaterialProperties struct (kinda gross, requires upkeep for each new material, where would I put it?)

[hardy fable]

I'm pretty sure I had working subclasses of physicalmaterials before? What issues did you have with it

[gentle urchin]

or a regular do once 😄

[flat coral]

Doesn't even show up as an option in the relevant menu

[mild ibex]

oh thats good to see, i was actually getting in the right direction of that, i was just about to add a variable after checking some things and go that route

[hardy fable]

That's because you haven't made an asset with that bp

[mild ibex]

the not nodes i might not have tried but thankyou so much

[hardy fable]

You made a class but no asset

Physical materials are like data assets. You create assets that live in the editor like meshes and textures, and choose those, not the base class.

[flat coral]

How do I create an asset from it?

[hardy fable]

Uh. Try misc, data asset? Or you might have to create a regular one and reparent it. I don't remember

[flat coral]

No dice...

This is actually something I've tried before, creating in-editor (not in-level) instances of BPs, I struck out trying to figure out how and used a worse system

[hardy fable]

That's easy if you parent from udataasset