blueprint

[trim matrix]

Is there a 'set playback position' node?

[gentle urchin]

I believe so

[trim matrix]

Because if I use stop I need to preserve current time, does stop do that?

[gentle urchin]

https://docs.unrealengine.com/4.26/en-US/BlueprintAPI/Components/Timeline/SetPlaybackPosition/

Stop does that yes

Play from start resets it to 0

Reverse from end reverses from.. end

Just reverse and just play picks it up where it was

Clamped to start and end

Stop just stops

Preserves current time

[trim matrix]

Well using stop instead of adjusting play rates now stops it working at all, rather than just the first time

It's not to do with timelines not being allowed in functions?

[versed sun]

i think because Functions have to be instant

im sure theres a technical term for it

[gentle urchin]

You are allowed to stop and start them

But functions cant be latent no

They do their logic instantly

[versed sun]

there it is

[trim matrix]

I am doing sphere traces inside my functions.

With a 'for duration'.
I have function > wait 0.12 > function > wait 0.12 ....... 4 times

With the sphere trace duration of 0.1

[gentle urchin]

Hmm.

[versed sun]

but the delay isnt IN the function , is it ?

[gentle urchin]

You could do outtime om update

Delay cannot be inside function

Engine denies it

[trim matrix]

No the delay is not but I have a sphere trace for duration

[gentle urchin]

For duration?

[trim matrix]

For 0.1 secs

[versed sun]

thats fine

[gentle urchin]

Dont think that exist

By default?

[gentle urchin]

Nope..

Thats the debug draw time

[trim matrix]

So the sphere trace is instant?

[gentle urchin]

Ye

[trim matrix]

Here's what I'm now using, 'meep' prints but the timeline stays at rate 1 when I try to reverse it, I don't think the stop even registers

[gentle urchin]

This is nicely blending into mp territory tho

[versed sun]

So , you want :
Tap Z = Small damage, works all the time
Hold Z =DoT or large damage?
Release Z = Instant Stop Damage and Reset, or Reverse Damage ?

[gentle urchin]

Is this ran on server?

[trim matrix]

Tap z makes the stinger go out and in and if it impacts an enemy it does a small amount of instant damage and applies K amount of poison.
Hold z does the same, but you apply K poison plus k for every 0.2 secs you are holding your stinger inside the enemy (up to a maximum), releasing z removes the stinger.

[versed sun]

ok, adding stacks of the DoT

[trim matrix]

Yes it's multiplayer game, I am doing calculations on client and using custom events to communicate things like health changes and impact VFX

[versed sun]

what does the timeline drive/do ?

[trim matrix]

Timeline is a tool to track the position of the stinger, it lasts 1.3 secs, at 0 is the start of the attack, 0.65 is the middle and 1.3 is the end, at 0.65 the stinger is fully extended. I do all my sphere traces for collision in the first <0.65 seconds

[gentle urchin]

So whats the <0.01 check for

Traces should be done on a branch from update where time>0.65

Perhaps that what you do already

Cant see the big picture^^

[trim matrix]

When I reverse I do that to see when my timeline gets to 0

[gentle urchin]

Ah.

[trim matrix]

And I do my 'sting has ended' logic

[gentle urchin]

I think finish works both ways.

Wheter its the start or the end

[versed sun]

you can fire events directly from the timeline at defined times

if that helps anything

[trim matrix]

I will check this might be big if true

I will need to revert to my previous system of setting playrates because weirdly 'stop' is not behaving right

[gentle urchin]

tested

it works.

[versed sun]

this adds an event

[gentle urchin]

triggers in both directions

[trim matrix]

It's really weird though that always the first time my 'update > check if <0.01' worked before 'finished' logic fired but after that the 'finished' logic would always fire first

[maiden wadi]

Client really shouldn't be doing anything except "I started pressing this button" and "I released this button." to server.

[versed sun]

the way you have it pluged into just Play, its starting at 1.3 sec

[maiden wadi]

Press and release within a short time like 0.1 seconds can tell server to try to apply instant poison. Press and hold should tell server to start holding poison in which case then client's release should tell server to stop the poison.

[versed sun]

and not doing anything but 1 pass thru Update , and going to Finished

[trim matrix]

I think the poison is working ok it's the animation side of things that are messing up

[versed sun]

Yes , plug it into Play from start

and it should do full thrust

[maiden wadi]

It would work much cleaner if the server was able to tell the client what it thought the client should be doing. Less cheating as well.

[winged sentinel]

so im trying to make a spawn point for my player (so i can use multiple childs of my character) and I cannot figure out how toi get it to work in multiplayer

[simple trench]

I have my enemy character firing a gun and it creates a projectile when it fires. The projectile will only fire +X and no other direction even when my enemy is facing another direction. anyone have an idea what is causing this?

[trim matrix]

can you change the playrate of a timeline while the timeline is playing?

[maiden wadi]

Is there any reason you don't just override GameMode functions for that?

[winged sentinel]

it did not realize that existed

[maiden wadi]

There are a few. You can override mostly probably GetDefaultPawnClassForController, and the SpawnDefaultPawn functions. Should get you relatively what you need without trouble.

[winged sentinel]

surpisingly this works, except i keep falling thrru the ground

[maiden wadi]

Might be the PlayerStart's location. I usually move them up and tap End to put them on ground.

[winged sentinel]

its spawning me at 0,0,0 i think

[maiden wadi]

Do you have a PlayerStart actor in your level?

[winged sentinel]

yes

[maiden wadi]

Hmm. May be the function. Try a GetActorOfClass, that's all that function does at the start anyhow.

Oh, yeah, it won't get the playerstart if you don't input a name in that. Goes on to do other stuff.

[trim matrix]

Well I'm back to square 1 but at least I managed to simplify my code a bit. Still same issue tho

[unborn maple]

any idea how to stop the snap to mouse cursor of the rotation of this pawn. any time i turn or move my cursor the camera goes bezerk

[winged sentinel]

Ill try it out

i tried to do this but doesnt work so well lol

[maiden wadi]

Pure nodes. If you have Classes A, B, C, D, And E in that array. And you randomize and get C, you spawn that and then random again and potentially get A, B, D, or E and remove that one.

[winged sentinel]

gotcha

adding a cast to my parent player bp allowed me to connect the return value to the in pawn on possess

[faint pasture]

Yes that's because Spawn Actor From Class can't guarantee that the actor it spawns is a Pawn. You could have spawned a bullet or a rock.

[winged sentinel]

gotcha, i keep trying to cast to its parent class but it keeps failing

each item in that array is definitly a child of bp_fpscharacter class

oh i see

well yes but that would spawn the parent class and not the child

I essentially have an array of characters i want to spawn

and the return value wont connect with In pawn anymore after I attach the random node

so i want to assure the spawnactor node that it will always be spawning a child of my base characyer

if that makes sense

[faint pasture]

Cast the output of spawn actor to your base character.

[winged sentinel]

interesting i had that originally and it wasnt working but ill give it another go

the cast keeps failing and im 99.8% sure im spawnig from a child class

i set the array right here

[faint pasture]

Why are you doing all that. Just make a variable AllowedClassesArray

Youre appending to the array not setting it.

[steady orbit]

@winged sentinel Are you also getting this issue? https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/player-start-rotation-problem/25974/2

I cannot make a proper team selection screen cause of this shit.

[winged sentinel]

not quite, im trying to spawn in my characters using an array

and i cant get it to work right

i had it working then idk what happened i screwed something up

[steady orbit]

Yeah nobody understands this issue I’ve brought up

[faint pasture]

There should be no difference between feeding SpawnActor a single subclass of MyCharacter or Get random on an array of subclasses of MyCharacter

[viscid arrow]

i have an issue where if a actor is found in a spawn collision it won't register the actor as in the collision

[winged sentinel]

i just discovered that i can just make an array and change the default values

[steady orbit]

3 damn forums. You’d think the devs would figure out this issue by now…

https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/player-start-rotation-problem/25974

https://answers.unrealengine.com/questions/945181/clients-dont-face-direction-of-playerstart-when-sp.html

https://answers.unrealengine.com/questions/246012/spawnactorfromclass-rotation-not-working-as-expect.html

[winged sentinel]

I dont need to append anything

[winged sentinel]

i think i heard of that before

[steady orbit]

Still. Nobody cares.

Idk how this isnt affecting more people.

[zealous fog]

Probably since its an easy manual fix (not saying that's an excuse but it's a reason)

Quite annoying but yeah

[steady orbit]

You talking about my issue?

[zealous fog]

Yeah

[steady orbit]

How do you fix it?

[zealous fog]

Set the rotation manually

[steady orbit]

Doesnt work

I’ve tried many many things

[zealous fog]

Tried this

The solution was simply implementing the spawning logic inside the overridden Choose Player Start function. This issue originally occurred in a larger project, was easy to replicate and a blank third person template project. Moving the script into the appropriate function instead of running it as a custom event fixed the error in both projects.

[steady orbit]

I wouldn’t be here acting a fool if it wasn’t my last resort.

The issue is you can’t add new inputs or outputs in these override functions. So implementing teams or other custom logic won’t work well.

Wait. Maybe I’m thinking about this wrong

I guess I’ll try a different approach

[zealous fog]

Sorry 😞

[steady orbit]

You see the issue?

Back to square 1 lol

Wish I could have a clean gamemode without all the bloat

Gamemode base is still too fat

[rigid fractal]

a collision object type of interactable? where can i find this?
because from what i have seen, for the collision box works, it needs to have one on the character and another on the object, i guess there is another better way

[zealous fog]

Probably people in #gameplay-ai know more

[devout pivot]

how do you get a reference to the landscape and landscape material in other blueprints?

[winged sentinel]

yoooo

im gettign that shit now

[steady orbit]

Right

I know why it happens

[winged sentinel]

onlny in multiplayer

[steady orbit]

The default gamemode base has a function that calls every actors begin play. So it overrides anything you do.

Shit design

[high yew]

my UI button wont work till I press it a lot.

[minor pagoda]

Hi, does someone know how would be the proper way to implement an inventory slot that calls a "Use" function to any item added on it? Using interfaces?

[twin shale]

Hey, I've got a guy making a lot of house models using some modular static meshes. I currently have model types in a blueprint that swaps the static mesh based on a drop down menu, nested inside a parent blueprint that contains all the elements for a single house. I want to allow them to quickly swap out static meshes off a drop-down menu, but the current solution would result in hundreds of thousands of child actor components by the time the dust settles. I can't imagine this being anything but a drain on performance. Is there a better way to get this functionality in a blueprint? I've been googling around but I cannot seem to find the right keyword to get me pointed in the right direction.

[minor wolf]

is it possible to have a blueprint class variable's default value be the value of another variable unless set? like if i have current health and max health, id like the current health to be max health initially, unless its manually set in the derived class

[sturdy garnet]

what would i covert it to? i know its not text

[spark steppe]

why would you want to convert it?

1/maxhealth * health (if you want 0-1 range) or remap value node

[minor wolf]

convert?

i dont think thats an answer to the question i posted

[spark steppe]

yea that was for kai

child actor components aren't that much of a performance impact on runtime as far as people told me before

just get sure that they are static

another approach could be to convert those actors on their own by destroying all the child actors and creating static mesh components for each mesh

[winged sentinel]

i use this

[spark steppe]

and copy over the mesh setting

now that was for you @minor wolf 😄

[minor wolf]

sorry i dont understand how that applies

im just using normal variables inside a blueprint class

[spark steppe]

nvm, that was for @twin shale

[spark steppe]

yea i don't know of any solution to your problem, and there's probably none

you could in your construction script go with something like if(health == 0) health = maxHealth;

to avoid ending up with a 0 health actor

[twin shale]

@spark steppe Oh I suppose that's easy enough to do. I figured child actor components would be move overhead because they seem to have a lot more parts per object, but maybe you're right. I can spawn a bunch and see what amount crashes my editor lol

[minor wolf]

ye its not a terrible solution but the code im translating allows for nullable member variables, so it just checks if the current health is null, and if it is, set it to max health. i cant do this in blueprints or C++ without adding an extra member bool to say whether they set the health or not

[spark steppe]

if it's nullable you can totally handle it in the construction script, oh nvm, the source has nullable values

they also exist in unreal cpp, but i'm not sure if that can be exposed to BP

[rigid fractal]

guys, how can i do this?

[earnest tangle]

You can just give the player a collision sphere or box and use that, yes

Or you can give the object itself the collision sphere

[rigid fractal]

but only works this way, no?

[minor wolf]

something like this should work right?

[novel rock]

How do you make screen modes work???

[trim matrix]

how do I create a reference to an actor, that doesn't have a BP, in GameState?

[dawn gazelle]

You're trying to create a variable in the gamestate?

[trim matrix]

indeed

lol

[dawn gazelle]

It's a C++ class?

[trim matrix]

no

[dawn gazelle]

What do you mean that it doesn't have a blueprint?

[trim matrix]

it's just an instance in the viewport

like I drag it off the side

[dawn gazelle]

An instance of what?

[trim matrix]

camera

[supple dome]

you cant have a reference to something in world from blueprints

[dawn gazelle]

Create a variable in the gamestate of type "Camera Actor" I imagine. You can then try and get its reference in a few ways... Fast and dirty would be to give the instance a tag and do a get actors of class with tag.

[tawdry surge]

@supple dome that's not true at all

[trim matrix]

ok

[dawn gazelle]

Then set its value in your variable... Can be done on begin play.

[supple dome]

It is, you cannot have a reference from something in world from an asset

[trim matrix]

okie

[supple dome]

a package cannot reference something from another package

[trim matrix]

thank you

[supple dome]

you have to get it dynamically

[earnest tangle]

You can get a reference to it at runtime, but you cannot have a direct reference to it. Only level blueprints can directly reference actor instances that are in the level

[tawdry surge]

Unless you pass one to it from the level blueprint

Or get all actors of class

[earnest tangle]

Yes, this is getting one at runtime

[supple dome]

or the other 500 methods yes

[still delta]

Hey guys, quick question: Is there a way to change the appearance/style/location of "Print String" into something other than the default blue-ish text that appears on the left side of the screen?

[earnest tangle]

If you expand the node from the little down arrow icon it has some additional options

But it's only a debug helper so if this is for game-related text display you need to do something else

[still delta]

oh i see, like essentially create a widget or something to display said string and go from there

[earnest tangle]

Yep

[still delta]

tyvm! I honestly never thought to click the arrow so i had no idea x)

[foggy escarp]

If you only have one, then you can use the node get all actors of class, then drag off with get a copy.

[willow cedar]

In Blueprint, is there a super easy way to just set a limit for max Velocity a player can move?

[maiden wadi]

If by player you mean a character, check out the CharacterMovementComponent for MaxWalkSpeed settings.

[willow cedar]

Thank you! I was doing a bit more complex stuff than walking for this, but I managed to figure it out, but thanks for getting back to me.

[high yew]

how do I get a blueprint debug object

[novel rock]

Figured out what the problem was. "Check for Command Line Overrides" needs to be unchecked.

[crimson ether]

Hi! Can anyone help me with collision settings?

I have this spline mesh that detects overlaps with these speheres. My character is supposed to go through the mesh... The collision is working fine for the overlaps but it's blocking my character

I've set the collision "query only"

in the construction scripy

script*

[high yew]

how do I get one of these in my blue brint

[crimson ether]

and tweaked the mesh's collision settings but I can't seem to figure out the problem

or I might have missed something

[crimson ether]

these should already be there... Idk if data only BPs have debug options. but if you open the full editor, you should have this dropdown

[high yew]

nope nothing is there

[viscid arrow]

i have an issue where if a actor is found in a collision, when it spawns it won't register that the actor inside the collision

[glossy remnant]

@viscid arrow I think the actor would need to exit then reenter the collision box to register?

[tawdry surge]

@high yew If it's a spawned actor you will have to hit play and select a debug object after it has been spawned in the level

[viscid arrow]

that makes it work, but when the collision dies after contact, it can't reenter

[glossy remnant]

@viscid arrow I am rather unskilled in the matter, but I made a BP, added a collision box component. I see under details it has an event option for "On Component End Overlap". That might help you with that part

[viscid arrow]

i'll check that out, thanks bro

[glossy remnant]

I hope it helps

[crimson ether]

Anyone :-) ?

[tulip mason]

Change the object type from world static to something the player only overlaps with

[crimson ether]

What obejct type should i select

[tulip mason]

I don't know, I don't know what you're player is blocking or overlapping, but it sounds lik something that's only overlapping or even ignoring.

[crimson ether]

Doesn't work :-(

[main lake]

Is it possible to change the "Time" on the Set Timer by Event between each iteration of the looping ? Like I need sometime the delay to be X and if the timer is at certain point the delay need to be Y

[flat coral]

So I've run up against this same problem and my solution was to not enable Looping, but instead to have the function(/event) called by the timer set a new timer, and roll the time each iteration

I'd be very interested to hear if there's a better way, though

[main lake]

but how do you set a new timer each time ?

[flat coral]

Exactly like that, Set Timer By Event

[novel rock]

Is there a better way to cycle up or down through identifying ID's?

[flat coral]

Oh you might not know how to reference the event. Use the Create Event node instead of the line

here lemme get a screenshot for you, I just did this

[main lake]

I think you didn't understand my question at first

[flat coral]

Is this what you need?

[crimson ether]

Hey, @flat coral can you please take a look at this? :-)

[main lake]

Like when the time is under 10 it need to go at normal speed (1sec delay) between each iteration, and when it's between 10 and 15 (I use a modulo here to get those values) it needs to go twice faster (0.5 delay) between each iteration

[flat coral]

Sec I'm grabbing another beer

Pretty saucy to be honest 😄

[flat coral]

I dont really understand well what you're saying but like don't mix two different notions of timer. The idea of making a timer go "twice as fast" is the wrong track. Just set it for half the time. Once you start setting the timer fresh each time, you just need to write the logic that calculates, based on whatever inputs, what the time of the next iteration SHOULD be

[main lake]

nope I can't do that

[flat coral]

https://tenor.com/view/cant-or-wont-cant-wont-or-will-gif-20314816

[main lake]

I have a game with a day and night system where the day lasts 10 minutes IRL (12 hours In Game), while nights only last 5 min IRL ((12 hours In Game), and after each night a new day comes and it needs to be normal again while during night the timer should go twice as fast, and it repeats until the timer reaches its maximum

[flat coral]

I got a few ideas on this, but if I were you the first thing I'd do is create an OnCollision event for the mesh that's not supposed to be colliding with ANYTHING and just attach that to a print string and make sure that's actually what you're hitting

[flat coral]

Also o god what are you tryna do with this?

Is it just like, if you click right you increment the value and if you click left you decrement it? Is that the extent of it?

[main lake]

me ?

[flat coral]

nah the guy I replied to

[flat coral]

Wait are you trying to set a shorter timer or are you trying to increase the actual time scale of the game to make EVERYTHING happen faster

[main lake]

just set a shorter timer

[flat coral]

Why not just have a boolean that's like IsNight and select the next duration based on that

[main lake]

explain a bit more

[flat coral]

words are hard, code is easy

[main lake]

yeah that's what I need but why is it not set to "Looping" ?

[flat coral]

It doesn't need to be. See how the event that it calls is itself?

it's a one-time timer, but at the end of the code path, it creates a NEW one-time timer for the new time you need

[main lake]

then I don't want that because it will reset the timer and I don't need that

[flat coral]

it's less resetting it, more throwing it in the garbage and making a brand new one

But who cares? What's the difference between using the same timer 50 times, and using 50 timers once?

[main lake]

depends if it resets my timer or not as what I want is a timer counting the hours and minutes for each day and night and after 1 full day is gone (24 hours in game) it adds 1 to a "Day" counter.
So I will need to display that later on an UMG thing for the player to know what time and day it is.

[flat coral]

Honestly if you want that jsut fuck the timer, store the start time of the day and do the lil math each time

[main lake]

tell me more

[flat coral]

here lemme find an example

[main lake]

because I'm doing a bit of math already with modulos to guess if it's day or night from 1 variable called timer

[flat coral]

yo do not guess, just store a boolean for that

[main lake]

I have the boolean too that I set to true or false depending on the result of the modulo

[flat coral]

Why not just flip it each time?

[main lake]

what do you mean ?

[flat coral]

Like end of the day you set IsNight=true then end of the night you set isNight=false

[main lake]

but the question is how do you tell from 1 value increasing all the time when it's day and when it's night ?

[flat coral]

you don't. You tell from the boolean. If it's true, and you just finished a cycle, then set it to false

[main lake]

but the boolean has to be set to true or false at one moment, that's my question

[brazen merlin]

someone made minecraft over the weekend - here is their day/night github https://github.com/jdah/minecraft-weekend/blob/master/src/world/sky.c

[spark steppe]

and he does the exact same thing that diversity is already doing

[flat coral]

yah I hate this lol

[spark steppe]

https://github.com/jdah/minecraft-weekend/blob/387ecb554946180094d58c57a4ee216dba506cc4/src/world/sky.c#L102-L105

[flat coral]

Fuck yall gonna make me make a whole blueprint for this example lol

[main lake]

All of this is complicated because I can't use a While loop as it would be easier like in other programming language

[brazen merlin]

thats kinda the point - learn how they set it up - dont just make it piece by piece, it's going to become an unfunctioning mess

[main lake]

I don't understand the code above as I'm not used to unreal c++ stuff

[brazen merlin]

i dont either, but there are bits that stand out

that would help inform you how you should design it before making it

[spark steppe]

it's not a great example

solid 5/7

[main lake]

I already thought about it but the part that confuses me is how to use the "Set Timer by Event" node and how to make it change delay at runtime

[spark steppe]

it restarts after each cycle

and as the bool flips with every run, it will run once as day, then as night, and so on...

[flat coral]

Yo if you would put something ona while loop, put it on tick

[spark steppe]

not to mention that a while loop in another language isn't easier

because it would block your whole thread

so you would have to deal with threading, which raises a lot of other issues

day/night cycle is kindergarten compared to that

[main lake]

I can't stop the tick function when the game is over and also tick() is based on tickrate so I don't know how to use the delta seconds to have the same seconds between each iteration

Look here's the beginning of my code

The only part I'm trying to figure out is if it's possible for the "Time" input on the node to change between each iterations or not

[flat coral]

Quick and dirty, here's a no-timers version

[spark steppe]

honestly the timer version looks more sane 😄

[main lake]

you can't pause the timer like that if I'm not mistaken ?

[spark steppe]

i still think it's wrong to implement your own timer

[flat coral]

ya but if you wanna do a lot of tricky shit like getting the progress or running it while paused this is more resilient

[spark steppe]

have you looked at the engines timers that we recommended yesterday?

[main lake]

Like the "World in delta seconds" ?

[spark steppe]

https://docs.unrealengine.com/4.26/en-US/BlueprintAPI/GameState/GetServerWorldTimeSeconds/

this

[main lake]

It can't be paused so I can't use it

and by paused I don't mean use the "Pause" node to really pause the game

because I don't need to pause the game but only pause the timer

[spark steppe]

weird approach

[main lake]

why ?

[spark steppe]

why would you pause the timer but not the game?

[main lake]

Because in my game there's a minigame part, when players are in a minigame, I need to pause the timer and start it again when the minigame is over

[spark steppe]

is everyone in the minigame when it happens?

[main lake]

yes

[spark steppe]

why not switch worlds then?

[flat coral]

You SHOULD switch worlds for sure

The cool thing about manually setting start / end time in my approach is you can rebuild that state entirely when you need to

just take the time you spent in minigame, add it to the Phase Start Time, and boom the math works

[main lake]

Phase Start Time ?

[flat coral]

look at the coooooode

[flat coral]

here 🙂

[main lake]

Let me try that

[waxen knot]

hay me and my team are trying to put shooting into our new game but the bullets keep going off the the left can anyone tell me whats going on?

here is the blueprint we are using

[main lake]

Where should I put the print to see if it's work properly ?

[flat coral]

I feel like that's the sort of thing you could figure out, you know?

[main lake]

Nope because It's not my code and using a Tick() I feel unconfortable because it's based on the tickrate and I need the print to only display every 1 sec

[faint pasture]

@main lakeHave one source of truth for what time it is. Should be a replicated int or float on GameState. In its RepNotify, apply the changes to the world based on the time.

We've told you how to do this a bunch of times lol

[main lake]

Everyone is telling me stuff but different stuff and I'm trying to grasp my head around

[spark steppe]

really replicate a timer int each tick?

[main lake]

there we go x)

[spark steppe]

if the engine pretty much provides synced times

[main lake]

I knew I shouldn't use a Tick()

[flat coral]

If you wanna put it in your project, it's your code. You gotta understand it. If it shits the bed later I'm probably not gonna be around

I'm here to help, but I don't have any kinda warranty on this shit 😛

[faint pasture]

@main lakeYou're the one who needed time to pause in minigames right?

[main lake]

yeah

[faint pasture]

Do you at least have a replicated Time variable working correctly and pausing during minigames?

[main lake]

I think I had that but not anymore

This timer variable was the one I only wanted to sync and each client do the calculation for the timer after that

[faint pasture]

That will drift like hell, just have everyone use the Servers time

thats the whole point of GameState

The state of the Game

CurrentTime and bIsInMinigame are states of the Game

[main lake]

Why the boolean can't be in the Game Mode ?

I'm still confused on those things even if people explained to me the difference

[faint pasture]

It should be this simple. Boolean can be in game mode if clients don't need to know about it but that's up to you.

[main lake]

nope you forgot the main problem

[faint pasture]

For not updating time when in minigame

[spark steppe]

😄

at this point you should be able to add a solution for your main problem

[faint pasture]

which is what?

[spark steppe]

5min night, 10min day

[faint pasture]

Does the raw time value matter at all?

like is it converted to hours?

[spark steppe]

no

[faint pasture]

you can just remap it then

[main lake]

your "Set Timer by Event" is running all the time once per second, and I need that to be different depending on the night and the day (the night goes 2x faster) than the day so the "Set timer by Event" Time property need to be at 0.5 when it's the night

[spark steppe]

you can just send %15 result

and figure out on the client if it's day or night

but he got that explained yesterday, i thought it snapped

[faint pasture]

Whether it's day or night can be handled in the repnotify or you can speed up and slow down the timer, whatever you want

[spark steppe]

you don't even need to speed up or sync day/night state

you can just figure out on the client

[main lake]

Damn at this moment I start to regret on why I wanted to become a programmer and not a farmer

[spark steppe]

a gameday is 15minutes, so just send that information, the client's can do the math

[faint pasture]

I would do time by a float BTW

0-1 being a day

call 0-0.3333 night

[spark steppe]

the time information could be a smallint 😄

[faint pasture]

and 0.3333 - 1 day

it really doesn't fucking matter, its a couple bytes a second. Just make the thing work

[main lake]

I need to know if it's night or day in the server too because I need to detect if players are in a certain zone at a certain time

You're confusing me even more with those things

[flat coral]

dude you have all the pieces in front of you for sure. There isn't some cool trick you're missing, we've shown you like 3-4 viable ways to track time here

You have to take these pieces and build the thing you want.

[main lake]

That's what I tried before and you saw the result

[flat coral]

You gave up.

[main lake]

and giving me this much informations and differents pieces doesn't help me understand

[faint pasture]

Now day is twice as long as night

assuming all you care about is the state of being day or night

if you care about the actual time like 4:15 pm then you'd do it a bit differently

[main lake]

I do care about that too

[spark steppe]

xDDD

thats news

[main lake]

because people need to be in certain zones between 2 hours

like players need to be in Zone A between 8 AM and 9 AM, if they're not in it they get a warning (red cross) after 3 warning they get punished by being sent to jail

and I have different zones and different times where people need to be on those zones

[flat coral]

It seems to me you've got a LOT of requirements for your time system and I think you need to become an expert on time bullshit because you're going to have to custom build it

[main lake]

Yeah I need to become einstein and rediscover time

[flat coral]

it also seems to me like this is gonna be a big part of what makes your game unique? Which, if it were me, would make me hesitant to share any part of it with strangers.

[main lake]

I had this feelings when I started developing games, but now I'm over that as long as you don't have all the infos for my games it's all good for me

[spark steppe]

i think people where aware of time before einstein

[flat coral]

man you think I'm fuckin einstein? None of us are. I'm just a guy who got his ass kicked by DST edge cases about 15 times the last project I worked on, which has at least given me a respect of which problems are easy or hard

What I'm saying is, the closer something is to the HEART of your game, the more you should be an expert on it yourself and not trust any of us internet idiots to hand it to you

[faint pasture]

Now time goes twice as fast at night

[main lake]

It's not like I came asking without having tried anything before like I tried multiple things but got stuck and came here to ask 🙂

[flat coral]

you're really undermining my "no one's gonna hand it to you" point right now 😛

[spark steppe]

he will fail soon or later anyways if he doesn't understand it

[main lake]

so with this code, the day is 10 minutes and night 5 minutes ? 🤔

[faint pasture]

Right now a day is 12 seconds and night is 6 lol

[sour seal]

i dont want to interrupt the people already getting/giving help. but i do have a question about where the hell i can put my sound cue. just a bit of sound for the player to hear that they got the kill in my online multiplayer game. I also need to know where to put my oofs and ouchies for the player as well. if anyone wants to take a peek, feel free to DM me and ill send some screenshots of my spaghet------ I MEAN MY TOTALLY ORGANIZED blueprints.

[faint pasture]

tune the numbers to taste

[flat coral]

Oh dude you can play sound from ANYWHERE

Just toss that into a BP along with whatever other logic

[faint pasture]

IDK what you're wanting your int to be, you can make smaller steps more often or larger steps less often to end up with the time lengths you want

[sour seal]

im talking about where to put the node in the blueprint code

[flat coral]

Yeah it's like "play sound at location" i think is the node

[spark steppe]

either add an audio component to the player if you want to play it in world space, or use the play sound 2D (?) node to play it without world affecting it

[spark steppe]

wouldn't recommend that on a moving pawn

[sour seal]

yea, i have a 2d sound, just dont know where within the logic it should go

[faint pasture]

Put that in the part of your code that detects a kill

Kill detected -> play sound

[spark steppe]

minecraft has that awful sound playing mechanism at locations

where it plays sounds where the pawn is currently standing -.-

[faint pasture]

Depends on if it's meant to be a UI or world sound

[spark steppe]

yea, but it doesn't move with pawn

so if you have a 10second sound and move, it will get quieter

[faint pasture]

COD noscope xXx_420jOkEr69_xXx hit pings would be a UI sound.

if you're playing a 10 second sound on kill you have problems already lmao

if it's meant to be a death moan then play it attached to the dying thing

[spark steppe]

UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUULTTTTTTTTTTRRRRRRAAAAAAAAAAAAAKIIIIIIIIIIILLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLl

[sour seal]

so far, none has worked and im wondering what im doing wrong

[spark steppe]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4I6mMilmio (actually thats already 5 seconds)

[flat coral]

put a breakpoitn on the sound play and make sure you're hittin it

[sour seal]

this code handles both my character and other characters. im pretty sure? its been a while and i had a lot of help with it

[faint pasture]

@sour sealProtip, learn to love Onreps

if you onrep bIsDead

[flat coral]

I was about to give you shit and then I remembered I have a death BP that looks like this

[faint pasture]

you can just handle all the "do this stuff when you die" in it

[spark steppe]

https://tenor.com/view/pokemon-detective-pikachu-pikachu-magnifying-glass-cute-gif-15629921

[sour seal]

so, it would likely be in that stuff?

[flat coral]

It's on purpose 😉

but honestly half that shit is just ragdolling every component

[sour seal]

i fucking love ragdoll

[spark steppe]

doesn't the node accept multiple variables as input?

[flat coral]

not as far as i know? I'm even doing half the components with a loop

[spark steppe]

i'm not sure either, not every node does allow it

may only work for targets?

[faint pasture]

You mean you don't just delete every constraint then spawn blood particle attached to every component and give them all a nice radial impulse?

[flat coral]

hehehehehe it's not all one skeleton

[faint pasture]

For killing our robot enemies we just disable all constraints and ragdoll it, it just busts apart.

[sour seal]

i think that shit is all in my hug

hud

hmm

ehhh maybe

[trim matrix]

how come when I put my gamestate into the world settings it overwrites the things I did for my players?

when I put the gamestate into the thing I cannot move my player but if I put the default state I can

[sour seal]

because code is hard :\

[trim matrix]

you are not wrong

[remote meteor]

If you use a game mode base, you need to use a game state base

You dont expect to use petroleum on a electric vehicle

[gentle urchin]

But i cant find the electrical pump

The one that pumps current ⚡

[willow cedar]

How do I preview a different animation state like Jump, instead of Idle run?

[fair magnet]

Hey guys. How is loading something out of a savegame being handled in Multiplayer?
For example my players have different colors. How do I let everyone else know what color Client X has?

I tried loading the color into playerstate but that's just throwing errors at me

[remote meteor]

abp is a realtime thing in the editor, change this transition to true and it will react accordingly

[remote meteor]

the server tells the other client what the color of the player should be

[fair magnet]

Yes that's the problem lol... the clients can choose their color... so it probably needs to reach to the server telling its color then telling everyone else

[remote meteor]

client player state tells server player state color change

server player state tells server game state this player's color has change

server game state tells the server player state and respective client player state has changed color

[fair magnet]

I get that... it's not a problem but how do I get local data from a client to the server...
In the playerstate it's currently getting the save file then pulling the color out of there. But then it would be the host color for everyone

[remote meteor]

this part, you tell your server version of yourself you have changed color

[fair magnet]

Wait so... I don't even have a game state yet :o do I really need it?

[remote meteor]

using the run on server type of event node

[fair magnet]

Atleast not a custom one

[remote meteor]

hm probably no need for this

i think on your local client you do a run on server event

then multicast it on the server

[fair magnet]

What if... I create an event running on owning client. That loads the color. Then passes this color to run on server with a rep notify?

Rep notify applying the color

[remote meteor]

then your rep notify still needs to broadcast it to the other clients

communication has to be client<->server

cant client to client

[fair magnet]

What? Rep notify automatically updates any client that differs from the host

[fair magnet]

Get that. And I have a plan ^-^ thanks for your guidance

I'll let you know once I get to trying it out (and don't fail in remembering)

[remote meteor]

🙏 good luck sometimes i still need to wrap my head around this for awhile

[fair magnet]

I just haven't worked with replication in a while and forced doing something with the authority node but that's obviously not it haha

[gentle urchin]

Whenever i delve into replication i just get a fresh reminder of why my game is singleplayer 😛

Never worked with it enough to properly grasp it. Sure, managed to 'hack' some things together and it worked for a 4 party team, but it sure wasnt pretty

[fair magnet]

It's quite easy once you remember the relations

Like when to be where

[gentle urchin]

yeah i suppose

like most things

[fair magnet]

Essentially what I'm going to do is asking the client for a value (since it's a color I'll always get something back) and apply whatever is being returned by it

[gentle urchin]

Wouldnt the server know the color

And send to the player?

Erh, cant tag admins?

[fair magnet]

The color is a setting you change in the main menu

Without being connected anywhere

So... no

[gentle urchin]

Yeah but thats pre loading ?

Wasnt this multiplayer loading question?

In a lobby the client would tell the server when it changes color

Then on loading map server tells the players which colors they picked

[fair magnet]

There is no lobby

[gentle urchin]

Ah, pre connection

I see

[fair magnet]

Who said smth about a lobby lol

[autumn shard]

Hi, I'm trying to make an acceleration effect to my controller (a turret), but I have no idea how to reset the acceleration when I release the input, any idea?

[gentle urchin]

Nobody 🪨

[fair magnet]

On Release Set your float var

[autumn shard]

mmm, ok I'll look for that, thank you

[fair magnet]

[hardy sphinx]

does somebody know how to fix this problem. I cant event imagine what is it

[hallow minnow]

is there a trigger event like "OnActorOverlap",
like "while something is in the trigger" do this?

[gentle urchin]

There is a trigger actor

Which is just an actor with a collision volume in it

[hardy sphinx]

Yes i have but how can it give problems

[hallow minnow]

sry i dint reply to your question if you tought so?

i need a trigger but not with OnActorBeginnOverlap or OnActorEndOverlap, i realy mean OnActorOverlap

like a while loop checking if something is in the trigger

[gentle urchin]

Wouldnt that just be while it has started overlap, and not ended?

So you could start a timer on beginoverlap, and end it on endoverlap

Or enable tick or whatever you need to happen

[hallow minnow]

for example (with OnActorBeginOverlap and OnActorEndOverlap)
if i put 3 cubes in the trigger then take 1 cube out
a light would turn on when the first cube enters and turns on when the first cube exits but there would be still 2 cubes in the volume...

[gentle urchin]

Youd need to store them in an array

And remove on end overlap if all cubes (or your criteria of choosing) are removed

[hallow minnow]

ok

just tought there was a simple solution like in hammer editor, there is OnStartTouch, OnEndTouch and OnTouch, they should add that :/

[gentle urchin]

There's also an "isoverlapping" check i believe

[fair magnet]

What.... just make an interface and call that a function in tick on every actor inside

Quite easy

[gentle urchin]

Sounds wastefull.

[fair magnet]

Alright... then just disable tick if there's none overlapping actors

[gentle urchin]

Whats the point of tick in this scenario?

You already have the event triggers coming in and out

[fair magnet]

He said WHILE

So... tick

Ohhh I misunderstood

[gentle urchin]

..

Welcome aboard capitan 😄

[fair magnet]

Still no need for array...
On end overlap get current overlapping actors if <= 0 turn off

[hallow minnow]

yea a tought for a counter too but would like if there was just a OnActorOverlaping...

[gentle urchin]

Get current overlapping actors is an internal array,

sure. could use that.

[fair magnet]

See... why not use what's already there

[gentle urchin]

Depending on usecase, it wont always suffice for custom filtering.

If it does, sure, use it.

[fair magnet]

What do you wanna filter tho ?

[gentle urchin]

Could be anything

tag?

[fair magnet]

Like enemies

[gentle urchin]

does the actor have a specific tag

internal array wouldnt handle that by default,

but sure, you could check all overlapping, and check if any of them has the tag that way

loop di loop

[fair magnet]

As I started unreal I were afraid of arrays cause I didn't understand them... now I do... and I love :o

[gentle urchin]

Arrays are great for many things

I had the same experience with Maps

TMaps is more like it

[fair magnet]

Procedual menus !

[gentle urchin]

Procedural anything 😄

[fair magnet]

For real procedual menus are in sane

Like you drag the button in

Done

You just made a fully functional animated button

[gentle urchin]

Wouldnt that just be in the button widget? 😮

making a button template really

[fair magnet]

Now think of it that way... let's say you give your button an animation... a fade per se

It would play every button the same time

[gentle urchin]

Only when triggered

Clicked, f.ex

[fair magnet]

Sec

I'll show u

[gentle urchin]

If its combined animation stuff (like the entire menu animating each button in some sequence) then yeah you'd need some array ^^

[fair magnet]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/678285049405243393/829754950313705532/Desktop_2021.04.08_-_18.28.43.03.mp4

[gentle urchin]

yes exactly ^^

[fair magnet]

Super complex stuff

[gentle urchin]

pretty nice

[fair magnet]

But once set up super cool

[gentle urchin]

Using a decorator class?

nah that wouldnt work i guess

[fair magnet]

What is that?

XD

[gentle urchin]

cant stick a widget inside another widget in a main widget :((

would need to be slate thingy i suppose...

In your scenario you have some arrays and loops and stuff right ?

[fair magnet]

Many

[gentle urchin]

Imagine that the VerticalBox had this animation type inside itself

so it could animate the children procedurally

just like you've done it

you could build up fancy menus by just wrapping them with the "VerticalBox_Animated" panel,

and set its animation details in the settings panel

Animation direction, speed, sequential delay and so on

[fair magnet]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/874404355443425340/874408711634956298/unknown.png

That's a tiny fraction of it

The box is not animated no

It's the button

[gentle urchin]

yepp got it

pretty cool.

[fair magnet]

I would give you the entire thing

[surreal peak]

Is the "WithPause" version your own or new?

[fair magnet]

I made that myself

[surreal peak]

Just randomly saw this. Not that I ever had a use for it, but looks useful

[gentle urchin]

handy macro for sure

surprised its not in the default library

[fair magnet]

It essentially just doesn't proceed on its own and the second input exec just skips the index reset

[gentle urchin]

but then again, many of these handy ones are not

[surreal peak]

Yeah I would probably end up just coding the actual logic, not thinking about a macro.
I think in my past 7 years or so with UE, I made like 5 macros >.>

Not that macros are useless to me, I just never think about them

[gentle urchin]

Same, tend to forget about them tbh

[fair magnet]

I use it always if I have my array being processed too fast or if I need to wait for anything to happen

[surreal peak]

The Reverse one is missing :D

[remote meteor]

same, i hardly have any macro used

[gentle urchin]

I hardly ever go reversed xD

[surreal peak]

Yeah, it's only really needed if you modify the array you are looping

And whenever that is a thing, I'm usually in C++, but it's useful in BPs too

Annyyyway, I'm derailing your conversation!

[gentle urchin]

Exactly

[fair magnet]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/564522529079689216/878007162440388618/unknown.png

Here you go

[gentle urchin]

o.O

[surreal peak]

Honestly, I don#t think there is a right or wrong way with macros

They are chaotic either way

[remote meteor]

as long it works 🤷‍♂️

[gentle urchin]

ye

[fair magnet]

Mine is basically the ue4 one but different

I just cleaned up that mess

[surreal peak]

They both do the same, just Squize uses one Local Var instead of two

And since Performance is not a point when using BP Macros (cause if we need performance, we use C++ ), it doesn't really matter I guess

[gentle urchin]

yeah the diff in performance blew my mind

[fair magnet]

Wonder why they don't give us a cpp for each :o

Is it not possible ?

[gentle urchin]

for (auto& Elem : Array) ?

Isnt that for each ?

[fair magnet]

Yea but as a node

Like why is it a macro

[gentle urchin]

ohh

yeah true

not sure it'd be any difference in performance tho?

according to some vid i watched it was how the "bp wires" worked that was most of the cost in bp?

Don't really know much about it so don't quote me on it 😄

[fair magnet]

Ohhhhhhh

Shorter Wires = Faster BP

That's also the reason why cpp is so fast... cause there's no wires :D

I've seen ue4 crash cause there was too many comments

Oh @trim matrix do you maybe know why for each is a macro and not a cpp function ?

Cause I'm a thinking about the most useless things the most

By now you should've noticed that

But there is this array wildcard specifier for functions

I usually don't read source because I'm not that far that I could understand it

Like if I tried looking at it... my brain would make exactly this face

It's trying to hide its pain

Do not let it fool you

Literally went out for editing it

11/10

[eternal reef]

Perfection.

[fair magnet]

There's barely anything known about them

"I feel lucky" -Google

[trim matrix]

Hi, I've done a game in which there is a video that is displayed. It works fine for me and works packaged too on my pc but when I try it on another pc the video is just a black screen. How to avoid that ?

[sturdy herald]

Hello. I have a control rig for a robot which will controlled by the player with a widget. I have IK and FK, but when im switching between them i have a problem: especially when im switching back to IK then the bones will get a transform (based on the IK calculations) but i need to avoid this. The funny thing is, that there is a little movement just by changing the bool to True or False. Here is a little video.

[remote meteor]

you either want to loop from entire another array or you want to reverse your loops

else that aint going to work

[sturdy herald]

Yeah, as IAsaka said, u need to reverse, because when u deleted the child, then the grandchild will have not parent (or parented to the original, but the loop wont see it) so u need to used a reverse loop.

[remote meteor]

The put the video source in a Movies folder in ur Content folder, reference it from your media source directory. And package the Movies content too

You need to ensure your video source file are actually being packaged in the game

[earnest ridge]

Hey guys, I have a sky sphere BP with custom colors to make a night scene and I have a function that modifies the colors of the sky sphere at runtime on a certain overlap. The thing is, when I simulate the game and the actors overlap, the colors of the sky sphere do not modify

Do you guys have any idea of why this doesn't happen?

These are the two parts I'm using to modify the sky sphere

[remote meteor]

you want to disable the Color Determined by Sun Position if you need custom colors

[earnest ridge]

Thanks for the reply. I tried it but it doesn't work neither

[outer pewter]

• I have an inventory with few slots inside a uniform grid panel, when i hover over an item it shows a description above it.
• when i put that uniform grid panel inside a scroll box i wasn't able to see the description when hover over the items anymore.

[sturdy herald]

at the end of modify get the Refresh Material function from SkySphere, and as IAsaka said use the Colors Determined by Sun false

[keen wedge]

Hi all, I have a first person character in a game where we have a set of "arms". I have some code which is enabling the player to pick things up, but I'm havint a few difficulties..

I have a joint on the palm of each hand (X axis facing out from the palm), and then on the objects that can be picked up I've added a socket in the location that I would like to be snapped to the joint. So, as an example, there's a mushroom which the sockets is on the stem of the mushroom, and there's a bottle on which the socket is on the neck of the bottle.

One of the biggest problems I've having is being able to get the sockets in the right place. For the bottle, the neck is 35 units from the pivot, but I have to set that to be negative 35 in order for it to appear in the correct place? I'm also trying to do the same approach for a book, that need some rotation to make it look like its being held correctly, but I'm literally constantly guessing, going back, changing it, going back, changing it, going back, there doesn't appera to be a way to "visualise" how it will be positioned. This leads me to wonder if my approach is wrong?

I'm assuing the AttachToComponent node, based from this tutorial (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJ2nVWhQV1I). In the tutorial, he isn't adding sockets to the "things" only to the skeleton itself, but that doesn't work for me as I need the "things" to be picked up at certain points, not the pivot.

There is a Preview Static Mesh setting for a socket, but it obviously wont allow me to add the skeletal mesh for the arms.

Oh, and if I scale any of the items that I've set these sockets up on, that screws the pooch too, as they then all seem to be in the wrong places, as if the sockets have been affected by the change in scale 😦

Can anyone suggest a better way of doing this, or point out where I'm going wrong? Its driving me nuts now 😦

[keen wedge]

Also - out of interest... because everything seems "massive" when picked up - is this the normal approach? Or, do you tend to scale the size of an object down when its being held, and then resize it again when its released? Or, perhaps have a different sized asset that you swap out when its being held, as opposed to the size of the assets in the "world" etc..

[waxen knot]

so Im trying to add shooting to one of my games but the bullets keep going to the left no matter where I go can someone tell me whats going on?

heres my code

[keen wedge]

What are you using to "move" the bullets, it might not be the "spawning" thats the issue, but what happens after etc. From what I can tell in your screenshot, you're setting the rotation to the direction of the static mesh, I'm assuming thats the player. I think there are other nodes like "GetForwardVector" (or similar).

[keen bay]

What he said ^

Get Actor Forward Vector

[waxen knot]

I did that but it just spawns them in the middel of the map but the rotate with the player and when I use the get world location it spawns where I want it to but it still goes off to the left

[keen wedge]

When you say "goes off to the left" - do you mean its "spawning" to the left or that its "moving" to the left?

[waxen knot]

moving

[keen wedge]

So, what are you using to "move" the bullet?

[waxen knot]

here is my bullet

[keen bay]

You could have an initial rotation on the bullet projectile, check that it points 'forward' (the X Axis)

[keen wedge]

The ProjectileMovement component normally takes a vector doesn't it? Somewhere near the bottom in the right hand properties side... whats the set to?

[waxen knot]

I dont know what you mean but see if you can find it here

[waxen knot]

oh ok I see it what do I set it to?

[trim matrix]

Struggling to find documentation on how to change input mic on Unreal Engine

[keen wedge]

So that looks ok, X is typically "forward" by default I believe... I note you have those options ticked at the top, especially these

[dawn gazelle]

It would probably be the forward vector of where you're shooting it from * your desired velocity.

[waxen knot]

I have that set with initial speed

now its going right

[celest oak]

i have a full anim bp, but i just made a new animation for when the player has a different weapon, i dont want to animate the walking cycle again. is it possible to use the legs of the walking animation while still using the upper body animation?

[waxen knot]

got it the scene was going to the right now its working thanks guys

[earnest ridge]

Thanks, I'll try this!

[tawdry surge]

@OKgames#7097 https://docs.unrealengine.com/4.27/en-US/AnimatingObjects/SkeletalMeshAnimation/AnimHowTo/AdditiveAnimations/

[keen wedge]

#blueprint message

^^^ anyone? 😦

[molten tiger]

Hi,
I did changed an actor (BP) parent class by a child of the old parent (both C++) (so i made a new in between class)
if i spawn the actor (BP) all is correct
if i spawn The child (BP) of the actor (BP) it call the constructor, all components are valid, but after that all the components inited in the constructor are rested to NULL ...
(hard to explain sorry hope you get it)

[versed sun]

You can convert your Skeletal mesh to a Static mesh for a Temp Preview, if that helps

[versed sun]

i might have a solution for you

[keen wedge]

I tried that, but the arms are up in the air, and the "thing" (a book in this case) sits at 0,0,0, and I can't move it... only the socket, which then would be hugely out of the position it needs to be in.

Completely open to solutions. Keen to know how other people are approaching stuff like this 🙂

[versed sun]

I can show you in screen share what I got if you want

[gentle prairie]

Hey guys, I am trying to spawn niagara on the right mouse button, am I passing the variable name correctly here?

[keen wedge]

Sure, if you're happy to?

[trim matrix]

how do i add more text to this? I want to "/4"so my text would be 0/4

[dawn gazelle]

format text

[trim matrix]

thank you kind sir

[dawn gazelle]

You can then define variables within the format using things like {number}

[remote meteor]

{Current}/{Max} something like that

[trim matrix]

i want it to print out 0/4

but its only printing out 0

[hallow night]

Just use append

[trim matrix]

how

[hallow night]

Integer to string

String to append

[trim matrix]

ok

[remote meteor]

insert this on the format text

[trim matrix]

Anyone know why this variable isn't registering if my character is in the air or not?

[celest oak]

thanks for the help but i want to not use an anim montage, but basically use another full idle animation, like switching from using a knife to using a gun while still being able to move

[hallow night]

Where/how are you setting this variable

[charred grove]

hello guys

could i show someone the video of a game

so that yall tell me the best config for it?

im having trouble to copy it in ue4

ill send

the link

just a min

its basically clash royal in case yall know the game

but heres is the link

[trim matrix]

In a state machine, in a transition thing

[tawdry surge]

@celest oak you can either blend animations together or keyframe unique full body ones.
I'm not really sure how you think you display either without a montage

[charred grove]

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

thats the game

[hallow night]

Yeah this is where you are getting this boolean, i want to know where you are setting it

[charred grove]

could someone tell me a serie of tips and mini tutorial on how to get that?

i already got the battle arena, i did do the widgets and everything but the project messed up now im redoing it and i cant even do it idk whats happening lol

i wanna achieve a static camera, in which i drag from widget to deploy units

[trim matrix]

Ah right

Oml Im such an idiot

Nvm lmao

Forgot to set the damn thing

[charred grove]

yes i know but i mean how do i get this

it will be released for phone at the end, but first i wanna make the game system lol

ight

but i saw a tutorial to make it static

but it leaves a grey ball as a controller

which i dont want to control anything with keyboard input to move

i just wanna drag

target view has the camera actor connected and a player controller

i dont want the player controller, but if i dont set it, then it doesnt even work

[remote meteor]

uhm

player controller is basically the client, you, you need atleast 1 to be able to do something

[charred grove]

how do i do to get this? if my player controller isnt based on moving an actor with WASD

but draggin units

the game is in the board,

[remote meteor]

you are seeing something through the player controller lol

player controller doesnt have to be wasd

[charred grove]

but when i do this

there is a grey ball in fron of the camera

that i move with wasd

i just want the camera to be static

[remote meteor]

which template did you start with

[charred grove]

without anything to move in front of it, just to point to the board in which i drag units

imma send screenshot

this is the camera actor pointing to the board

the camera is there under player controller

in the level blueprint

[jovial charm]

Whats the best way to have a firing system, from the crosshair or the barrel of the gun?

[charred grove]

and thats the grey ball

its there and i move it

[versed sun]

i think that gery ball might be a Default Pawn, or Spectator pawn

or something like that

[charred grove]

mmm yes let me check

yes it is

i added a warrior

lol so i just None it

[remote meteor]

this 2 to none

[charred grove]

i dont get the option to none spectator

okay so one more question

here, thos white and purple square think of them as if they were cards, and i wanna drop a soldier

when i drag and drop

the soldier always appears in the middle of the board

in the same exact coords

i want to be able to place it wherever my mouse is

here i dragged already, and soldier is fixiated there in the middle

this is the blueprint for dropping the actor which i dragged from widget, in event drag on cancelled..

[remote meteor]

500 is kinda too short

try 5000 or something

use the draw debug

and see where the linetrace lands

also i dont think mouse position works in a phone touch input

use the pointer event

[charred grove]

ight

ill try that

Thanks

[outer pewter]

i have a scrollable inventory but the description is blocked by the scroll box. what should i do?

[remote meteor]

Is ur description done within the item slot?

Or is that tooltip

[outer pewter]

within the item slot

[remote meteor]

Try doing it the tooltip way

[outer pewter]

whats the tooltip way

[remote meteor]

At the umg designer

When u select something in the hierarchy

On the righ panel

Theres actually some option to show tooltips

You can also customize the tooltip widget there but you can start by getting the description to show first

[outer pewter]

im so confused haha

idk where to find it

[remote meteor]

this one

assuming button is your visible panel

use the bind function

insert ur description there

[outer pewter]

but the description is generated based on what item is in the slot its not the same as always

[remote meteor]

yeah

[outer pewter]

its based on the txt variable

[remote meteor]

use the bind button there

create a bind function

[outer pewter]

i know. i mean im not sure how to convert that into this

since its 2 options when hoverd and when not

[remote meteor]

the hovering is done by the widget itself

you dont have to do anything

you just need to pass the actual text you want to display into this function

thats it

[outer pewter]

so i just add the text variable ?

like this ?

[remote meteor]

not the widget

ur text

"Description : Allows you to do..."

[amber rune]

i have a issue, i have a box collision thing and if something is inside it i want it to start playing a aimation, but when something isnt inside it i want it to play it backwards, how do i do this

[outer pewter]

it is stored in that variable

[remote meteor]

yes, get it from that variable

[outer pewter]

same nothing happened

[remote meteor]

lol

get iteminfo

break it

drag the description into it

[outer pewter]

still

[remote meteor]

in which panel widget u placed this tooltip

do it on the button

also

[outer pewter]

i did it on the button and this happened

[remote meteor]

yes

you can try a lengthy word

and see if it still hides under the scroll box

[outer pewter]

but isnt it too small to read ?

[remote meteor]

if you like to customize the tooltip

create another widget just for the tooltip, then bind the Tool Tip Widget

https://youtu.be/zLRMDtKHyzA

you can roughly follow this

[outer pewter]

i added more words but they are not showing

ohh thats helpful

i ll go check it out and stop asking you stupid questions haha thank you a lot

[remote meteor]

it should roughly works the same

if your tooltip is still hiding under the scroll box

then you might need to spawn the widget manually on top and adjust the location

[outer pewter]

i see thank you

[celest oak]

how can i replicate particles for multiplayer?

[winged sentinel]

is there a way i can use a wild card in a function library

[pallid axle]

does unity have shape casting?

I would ask in unity discord but I'm banned for inferring a 9/11 joke

[jovial charm]

Is a shooting function better from crosshair, or the barrel? Whats more recommended?

[dawn gazelle]

Wildcards only work in Macros as far as I'm aware.

[winged sentinel]

ah i see too bad, itd be nice to have a universal function for arrays

to check if they valid

[sturdy garnet]

🤨

Toby

[tawdry surge]

There is a built in is valid function for array indexes @winged sentinel

Just check 0 is valid

[winged sentinel]

there is?

i do that

but i thought condensing it to 1 node would be more efficient

or cleaner rather

[gentle urchin]

Isvalidindex

Is an existing node

Just check if index 0 is valid

[winged sentinel]

so this essential

still gettign that

whic makes no sense

thats the whole bp, im pretty sure im checking to see if the array is valid when running it

[dawn gazelle]

The issue lies here.

If the array "PlayerDistances" doesn't have a value, then you're pulling a -1 on the get.

[winged sentinel]

I should do an array check there as well, but in the warning it mentions the player actors array is pulling -1

Not player distance array

[gentle urchin]

-1 if no index was found in the min float array

I bet

[winged sentinel]

OHHHHH

I see

Makes sense

[gentle urchin]

Player distances having 0 entries

[winged sentinel]

Exactly yes I forgot that was hooked up to my player actor index

its all good now thanks!

[gentle urchin]

You dont need to get last index. Just check 0

[dusky harbor]

Hello,
How could i play animation with my object. Normally i would do it with Timeline and Updating the Location of my object. But this time i have moveable object and the object hasn't static location. How could I do this animation with Timeline or something else.
Thank you in advance!

[winged sentinel]

damn it came back

switched it to that and its still there

[maiden wadi]

What else is this hooked to?

[winged sentinel]

this is the whole bp, its only an warning coming from here

everythign that gets those arrays are coming after i do the valid check

[maiden wadi]

This is your issue most likely.

That function is returning -1 for some reason.

[winged sentinel]

true but anything thats accessing it shouldnt be executed because itl return false if there isnt at least a 0 valid index

[maiden wadi]

Unhook the print at the end and try it then.

You're clearing your float array, and then accessing that function again long after your IsValidIndex is checked.

Oh. That wasn't a print. But this thing here.

You've already checked IsValidIndex and it passed. But then same logic line cleared the array and tried to access the array again.

[winged sentinel]

ohhh ya that was definitley it cuz i cleared it just before

thank you

[dusky harbor]

i did, i upload a photo if somebody doesn't know how to make animation from movable location to a static location

[trail ginkgo]

Bonjour

Y’a t’il un français ?

Pour m’aider

[mortal heart]

Execute Console Command doesn't work in shipping builds, any idea on how to fix this?

[maiden wadi]

Do the same thing the console command did without the console command, usually.

[trim matrix]

Can someone help me, I want to make a door system like fnaf 1, if the enemy is at the door and the player turns on the light, it will play a sound, and if the player closes the door, the enemy disappears

[icy dragon]

Or Game User Settings

[maiden wadi]

Depends on the console command.

[icy dragon]

You just perfectly describe the plan, now do the same in BP using that plan.

[trim matrix]

the plan I already have, but I'm not able to do it

[icy dragon]

Do you know your way around Blueprints to begin with?

[trim matrix]

ok you don't want to help me, i'll try to ask someone else, thanks

[icy dragon]

Because it's as simple as playing with events, but oh well 🤷

[maiden wadi]

Pretty sure they were trying to help. It's very hard to help someone without gauging how seasoned they are. If you don't know the difference between a float and an integer, this is a much longer discussion than some technical details.

[trim matrix]

people who just want to make a door system like fnaf, WHY IS THIS SO DIFFICULT?

[icy dragon]

I'm sorry if I come off as assholistic, but I need to know how experienced you were with BPs.

[bold wasp]

That's how I feel right now trying to make something smoothly change to a new random value every second

[icy dragon]

Because you already wrote the plan.

[trim matrix]

that's enough?

[icy dragon]

Ouch, level BP spaghetti 😰

[bold wasp]

Oh thank you @trim matrix FInterpTo was my missing piece

[trim matrix]

it's pointclick game, there's no way to create all blueprint outside levelBP

[icy dragon]

If I were you, I'd make things easier with doing logic across actors, doesn't matter if it's a P&C game.

[trim matrix]

ok nobody here wants to help me with the door system, thanks for nothing guys

[icy dragon]

And yes, it's possible to make inter BP comm without level BP mess. Look up on stuff like Event Dispatchers and Blueprint Interface

https://youtu.be/sEcoWGrF1Hg

[icy dragon]

I could've stop few messages ago if I'm just messing with you

[trim matrix]

will this help my Doors system?

[icy dragon]

Yes!

Majority of us do doors with Event Dispatchers and/or BP Interface.

Much more elegant and scalable than hardcoding shit in level BP.

[trim matrix]

AH YES THE BP INTERFACE, THANKS SO MUCH MAN

[icy dragon]

https://youtu.be/G_hLUkm7v44

[icy dragon]

Hehehe
Still going to thanks for nothing? 😝

[trim matrix]

I just tried and it didn't work either

[spark steppe]

this is going nowhere

that level BP doesn't have a single function 😄

[icy dragon]

I think you have to refactor the entire thing all over, but using object oriented design instead.

[spark steppe]

maybe look into functions before dealing with interfaces/event dispatchers