blueprint

[trim matrix]

Will never have more than 20 in the array I have calculated

Never more.

[odd ember]

okay, get kill count, get the first entry, foreach loop over the array checking if kill count is higher than all other entries. if not, set array element accordingly?

[faint pasture]

And you're sorting it per kill I'd guess?

[odd ember]

fine

[trim matrix]

Sorting it in descending order based on kill count

[faint pasture]

I mean per frame or per kill or per game?

[trim matrix]

Well the struct is populated in a separate way, but that wouldn’t fucking matter lmao

I just need help on the sorting

[blissful grail]

The frequency of the sort does in fact matter

[faint pasture]

Ya just bubble it

It's probably happening once per kill Max so not that often? Unless you're making vampire survivors part 2

[odd ember]

you've had perhaps 5 people sucked into this vortex all giving you help

and yet, with your CS background, you cannot do this sorting

I don't know

I don't know how to help you

[gentle urchin]

Likely on tick, unless something changed

[trim matrix]

Huh alright

[gentle urchin]

Unless the repnotify started working

[trim matrix]

Alright lemme try and bubble sort it then 🙂

[trim matrix]

Oh that thing worked ages ago

[gentle urchin]

Swweeet

[trim matrix]

Lmao yeah

Alright gonna try bubble it now 🙂

[faint pasture]

Bubble sort is actually probably a pretty good fit because nobody is ever jumping up or down by that many places any given run

So you pretty much always have an almost sorted array

[odd ember]

nice, easier to run a whole bunch of these per tick

[trim matrix]

Alright lemme try it

The actual sorting bit

Not the tick scuffed shit

Brb

[faint pasture]

In fact bubble might be optimal.

[trim matrix]

Shiiiet nice

Lemme do it RQ

[faint pasture]

Assuming nobody score goes up by more than one per run, you could do this in one pass each time after the initial sort correct?

I mean I wouldn't commit to it but bubble sort wouldn't be that bad. Most of the time it will be doing just one swap

[trim matrix]

This array is only sorted every 5 mins or more

But like yeah

[faint pasture]

Lmao

Sleepsort

[odd ember]

how fast would a combination of merge and bogosort be

divided into pairs, bogosort, reappend

[tranquil abyss]

For building a Inventory as far as the UI in concerned, Would it be necessary or stupid that each "slot" be its own up element / widget

[faint pasture]

It's own instance of a widget, sure

Don't make WBP_BeltSlot, make WBP_InventorySlot

And add one for belt, boots, head, torso, etc

[tranquil abyss]

Im not making a traditional inventory either. so im not sure

[faint pasture]

Well what are you making.

[tranquil abyss]

im not making gird style thing im making something like this

1 sec

[odd ember]

there's a specific widget for this I believe

[tranquil abyss]

ignore the colors and symbols and shit

[gentle urchin]

list widget?

[odd ember]

listview?

[tranquil abyss]

each of those are item

[gentle urchin]

it needs more

[tranquil abyss]

Yea.. I looked into the list widget but I wanst sure if that was the ticket

[odd ember]

listview + custom listable widget

[gentle urchin]

The list item should hold some ID / asset reference, and its name/type

[odd ember]

I use it for storing profiles

[trim matrix]

Did it

[bleak cradle]

I need help for my game, LOTS OF HELP, please contact md/dm

[trim matrix]

Bubble sort in UE4 pure bps

Is that right what I did?

[gentle urchin]

did it work?

right enough if so 😄

[trim matrix]

Idk gonna test now

[odd ember]

🥲 🔫

[trim matrix]

LMFAO

[flat coral]

Damn now I wanna make quicksort

[trim matrix]

Wait

What the fuck do those issues mean

Huh!?

(zoomed):

[flat coral]

Cool, new errors just dropped I guess lol

[trim matrix]

No issues here 🤔

[odd ember]

secret unlockable error messages for those committed to doing what never should be done

[trim matrix]

No, but seriously

I don't see any issues

And I basically converted it from the bubble sort python code

And the issues are inside of the for each loop?!

Oh they are issues elsewhere

Nvm 😂

Dont think it is supposed to make duplicates

It should be this but descending, know why it isn't working?

https://blueprintue.com/blueprint/qx91tuob/ - If anyone from that can understand why it is making a duplicate - much appreciated.

[odd ember]

best thing you can do is use breakpoints to figure it out yourself

[faint pasture]

That is hyper scuffed. Just forloop over the array from 1 to Array.lastindex and if Array[i] < Array[i-1], swap them. That's a pass. If you ever do over 1 swap in a pass you gotta do it again.

[trim matrix]

FCK ok one sec

Ah

And works

Lot simpler

But like now it is ascending, not descending

Oh

Fixed it

Changed the < to a >

[faint pasture]

It's better to shuffle things around where you've been instead of in front of you. You can accomplish the same thing doing a reverse for loop and comparing with i+1

[trim matrix]

Thanks so much adriel!

[trim matrix]

I fixed it, all good but thanks so much man 😄

[faint pasture]

Doesn't that give you an index out of bounds error?

I was saying to start at 1 and compare with i-1

[trim matrix]

Nope

Works some fucking way

[faint pasture]

You're starting at 0 and comparing with i+1 which is fine except for the last index, you wanna stop at Last-1

[trim matrix]

Idk man, it’s working

Somehow

Like flawlessly

[faint pasture]

It's probably blueprint being extra forgiving. Subtract one from the last index going into that for loop

[trim matrix]

Uh

Alr

Yeah still works 🙂

[faint pasture]

Do you understand what I'm getting at. If the last index is five, it will try to get the element at 5 + 1 or array[6] which doesn't exist. In cpp it'll shit itself. Idk why BP doesn't tbh

[leaden raven]

anyone have any tips or recommended tutorials on a grid placement system. for example me and my friend are going to start working on a game that allows you to build in vr, kinda like creative mode minecraft, but with blocks of all different shapes and sizes, so unlike minecraft the blocks wont be 1x1x1 in ue4. are there any tutorials or even content on the marketplace that could get us started?

[trim matrix]

Yeah I get it

Bps is weird

[faint pasture]

So how are you detecting when it's sorted?

[trim matrix]

Uh

Wdym

Oh I just press 1 on the keyboard and print it

Hold on

[faint pasture]

How many times are you running this

[trim matrix]

Once every 5 mins no less 🙂

[faint pasture]

What I mean is you're only doing one pass of that sort.

[trim matrix]

Oh tf

[faint pasture]

Which will only move one element to the right place

[trim matrix]

How do I make sure it works for all times?!

Or like all cases?

[faint pasture]

Have that sort return a bool bIsSorted (SwapCount<2)

You gotta run till it returns true

[trim matrix]

Wait hold on this is like confusing

Can you explain it to me like I’m 5?

😂

[faint pasture]

Count how many times it triggers a swap. If it swaps more than once, then you have to run it again. Over and over until it swaps under two times

[trim matrix]

Huh?!

[faint pasture]

Or just run this on tick and it'll be sorted 99% of the time anyway.

[trim matrix]

Nah

[faint pasture]

You'll even get a cool animation of ppl going up the rankings lmao

[trim matrix]

I just want it to run once and sort everything please lmao

Just

I want it to fucking work

[faint pasture]

Ok then listen. One pass is not enough.

[trim matrix]

In one call of the function

[trim matrix]

Alright

[faint pasture]

That's bubble sort. If it swaps more than once, call it again.

[trim matrix]

Uh one sec then

[faint pasture]

Just make a function variable int SwapCount. Increment it every time the swap is triggered. At the end of the function, return a bool (SwapCount < 2). If that's true (outside the function), then it's sorted. If false, loop back and run it again.

[gritty elm]

i have some child in grid panel. when i remove a child from grid panel ( from middle of grid panel ), it left empty gap

[faint pasture]

Say you had a list of 20 things sorted backwards. It'd take 19 runs to sort it. You are only moving 1 item to the right spot per run.

[gritty elm]

i want to fill empty area or rearrange child again in grid panel

[faint pasture]

#umg

[trim matrix]

Like that then?

Image 1 is in the main event graph, image 2 is in the funct.

Well that doesnt work 😂

Only things changed are in those SSs

[faint pasture]

Return after the array loop. Not in the loop

You're basically bailing out after the first swap

[trim matrix]

Ohhhh

Alright one sec

So like this?!

Adriel?

Or do I need to move the swap count bool to the completed too

[faint pasture]

You don't need that Boolean variable but that should work.

[trim matrix]

Ok

One sec

[faint pasture]

Just plug SwapCount<2 into the return

[trim matrix]

That crashed my UE4

Lemme restart and try again

Infinite loop detected.

[dawn gazelle]

One way I can think of to fix this would be to store the row/column reference in the children when creating them, then when removing a child you can read these values out of the child save in a temp variable (hopefully in a local variable), and then you can recreate a blank one in the empty spot.

[trim matrix]

So adriel, when I press 2 to run all the shit (img 1) it does an inf loop

And that's the code

[gentle urchin]

Increment < 2 ?

Hm

[trim matrix]

Just doing what adriel said

[faint pasture]

Dude get rid of that bool variable and just return the result of SwapCount<2

[gentle urchin]

^

[trim matrix]

Uh

Inside the loop?!

[faint pasture]

Take that less than node, and plug it onto the return

[trim matrix]

So liek that

Yes that works!

[faint pasture]

Yup

[trim matrix]

So that will now fully sort the array?

For more than one pass?

[faint pasture]

Assuming it's not secretly scuffed then sure

Test it

[trim matrix]

Yeah one sec

[faint pasture]

Print every time it runs and see how many passes it takes. Should take N-1 passes in the worst case

[trim matrix]

That should sim it

Works for that dataset

[faint pasture]

That should take 2 passes

[trim matrix]

Idk if that is doing 2 passes but works for that dataset

[trim matrix]

Now lemme try another lol - make it do 3

Yeah that works too with this dataset

Cool, thank you so much - it looks like it is working fine 😄

+Kudos x♾

🙂

[faint pasture]

Now try it with 10,000

[gentle urchin]

Argh, disappointing that ISM instances with 0 scale cost the same as those with scale.. was hoping to avoid switching ism components

[willow cedar]

In Blueprint, is there a way to pick the Start and End Mesh for a Spline? I just need to cap off the end

[faint pasture]

Don't spline meshes NOT auto tile? Just set the first and last mesh to be something else.

[odd ember]

if you have spline mesh made up of spline mesh components you can store entries in an array

[hoary spruce]

How Can I Throw 2D Jumpscare When I Die

[icy dragon]

Just like making any other game over screen

But sudden

[faint pasture]

And scary

[hoary spruce]

I know how to jumpscare but I don't know how to activate when I die

[icy dragon]

Code wise, the game doesn't know anything about the concept of "jumpscare".

Jumpscares are merely visual concept, the game code can only know execute this event and that event

[faint pasture]

Event OnDestroyed or a custom Death event or whatever.

[devout bane]

So I inherited a base blueprint and I got "Parent: Begin Play" by default. I also need "Parent: Destroyed" as well but I can't figure out how to add it.

[hardy fable]

Right click on the event. Select call parent

[crystal crown]

Set actor rotation is overwriting my add actor local rotation what is the solution

[devout bane]

Thanks

[unreal tusk]

In widget blueprints, does anyone know how to call stuff you have stored in a datatable? I have some stats I'm storing in a datatable and needing the interface widget to display it in a canvas.

[rain egret]

question, i finally figured out how to have an object align to the normal which was easier than id like to admit, anyway i now want to add a custom rotation to that which would allow the player to turn the object in 45degrees around that point

[maiden wadi]

Datatables are static. Just call GetDataTableRow, use your table and whatever name for the row you need.

[onyx token]

should this work?

pls halp

[maiden wadi]

Don't remember the function exactly. Rotate Around Axis or something. Axis depends on how you want the object to rotate.

[maiden wadi]

Not sure what the relative rotation set is for. The Montage should play just fine and stop.

[onyx token]

oh right, don't worry about the relative rotation

but "Montage Stop" does do the thing right?

dangit

then the bug is somewhere else

[tiny frost]

does any one know how to make a grappling hook that would pull an enemy or a diff actor i cant find anything for it

[rain egret]

there are cheap tutorials on how to make a hookshot which is basically just a pretty looking launch character node, instead of launching yourself tho you take the actor you receive from the linetrace and add a impuls or launch to it

[tiny frost]

i cant add impulse to an actor

or can i

[rain egret]

dunno been a while

oops wrong reply

[tiny frost]

ive only been useing this for like 7 months

[rain egret]

yes i am using a normal vector, i understand thats my axis i want to rotate around, but i dont know whats the vector i want to rotate it around

[smoky marsh]

Use quats

[maiden wadi]

Characters are a little more difficult. If you start with actors, all you need to do is set the root component of the actor to simulate physics, and add force on it enough to pull it.

[smoky marsh]

Makes rotation easier

[maiden wadi]

You don't need quats to rotate something 45 degrees.

[smoky marsh]

Is it a specific 45 degrees in a single direction around an axis? Yeah then I admit quats may be overkill

[rain egret]

this is how i get my rotation, i dont know how quats will help me here

[tribal plover]

[HELP]

I was watching this video on an interactable door: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SW4nq2BNlto

Everything is working perfectly except that I have 2 separate door BPs so there are hinges on either side for each BP. (Basically the same door but flipped, but two different BPs).

I'm trying to get it to work for both doors but I'm not sure how to continue because whenever you add a BP to the viewport it adds a number to the BP: https://i.imgur.com/McAXyPV.png

This is my BP so far: https://i.imgur.com/ROxv4S9.png

Thanks in advance, hope I'm posting this in the right place 😅

[smoky marsh]

God lemme think, isn't it something like thats your rotator and you rotate and or unrotate your impact point by that and then rotate that point by 45°? Its 1am so I might be making it more unclear so excuse me in advance

[maiden wadi]

How does it need to rotate? World space? It's own local space?

[rain egret]

its own local space

imagine you place a book on a angled surface and you turn the book around its axis

[smoky marsh]

Basically like how we are in editor are allowed to do stuff but instead at runtime with 45° lock?

[rain egret]

its also 1 in the morning for me lmao

[smoky marsh]

CET power

[rain egret]

and i think i exhausted my brain power already

[smoky marsh]

Sleep on it, you might find the answers in the morning since you've had a good think about it tonight

[rain egret]

true

[maiden wadi]

@rain egret Semi sure that this works.

@tribal ploverDon't rely on object names. You should make one single door type class, and have a boolean in it that you can switch that will define if it should play stuff inverted for mirroring doors. Single class, one cast, instance editable boolean toggled in the world details panel.

[rain egret]

amazing, this did it, thank you

[tiny frost]

how would i even do characters

[tribal plover]

@maiden wadi I see. Would this matter if my door SMs are flipped? They aren't the same mesh.

I did this and it works now. But I want to explore your solution

[maiden wadi]

Depends. You're in complicated territory. This is the reason that stuff like GameplayAbilitySystem was created. Stateful abilities that can affect things directly without complications. But to hack it together, there are a couple of ways. Easiest is to just disable their movement component and interpolate the actor towards the grapple.

[tiny frost]

oh ok i just did it

[maiden wadi]

Should not. You could even choose the mesh based on the bool in the construction script.

[tiny frost]

thanks a buch @maiden wadi

[crystal crown]

it seems Epic deleted old answerhub posts today. Atleast the images😡

[tribal plover]

@maiden wadi Okay, thank you. I will work out how to get that to work.

[brisk stag]

I'm probably being an idiot here lol but why are the connections on these nodes gone in my materials?

https://i.gyazo.com/dd77dbb95eed96b1e966d115c8a17639.png

[tiny frost]

uhh

[grizzled marsh]

Hello - I am dissecting a complex package of many blueprints that reference each other. How can I know from which node&blueprint an Event is being called during runtime? Using just breakpoints or RMB>Find References doesn't give you that info, afaik.

[odd ember]

probably one for #graphics

but it looks like you done goofed perhaps

[brisk stag]

I may have done just that

alright I'll pop it in there too

[willow cedar]

I moved a bunch of files around in Unreal earlier to organize better, but I broke a lot of things in blueprints, like casts and whatnot. Is there an easy way to fix this? Or what channel should I go to to ask for help?

[odd ember]

there isn't. it's a pain in the behind that this functionality doesn't exist, but you basically have to go into every class and check that it is ok. if you play in editor, it will tell you of SOME of the classes that are having issues, but not all of the classes

[willow cedar]

Damn. Is there a way to avoid this down the line, or prep for it if you need to organize stuff?

[odd ember]

in code like #cpp it's built in functionality called refactoring. in BP they haven't made it part of the ecosystem sadly. generally it just speaks towards thinking about how your organize things early instead of having to move them around later. especially if they contain logic

[willow cedar]

Okay, that makes sense. I just took a project of mine and reorganized a lot to have better practices, but it broke some things

Thanks for the info

[viscid barn]

wtf? for some reason my main character asset now causes my project to crash whenever I try to interact with it, even so much as right clicking on it makes the engine crash

[faint pasture]

What's the diff vs last working submit to Source Control?

[viscid barn]

stupid me didn't use source control in a veeeeeeeery long time ;.;

[faint pasture]

https://c.tenor.com/wn8N4_IZ32kAAAAM/this-probably-what-they-call-a-teachable-moment-but-im-gonna-go-take-a-bath.gif

[viscid barn]

Yeaaaaaahhh

[faint pasture]

How hard would it be to rebuild that class?

[viscid barn]

Very

[faint pasture]

Have you cleared out intermediate and saved and all of that

[viscid barn]

Because it's not just the blueprint, it's the components and controller

[viscid barn]

First I hear of that

Intermediate I mean

[faint pasture]

I would delete intermediate, save, binaries if it's a c++ project and cross your fingers

Do this on a copy of the project by the way

[viscid barn]

It's bp

I'm still prototyping so I was working on bp

[faint pasture]

Delete intermediate and saved then. Everything but config content and uproject file

[viscid barn]

So far it's a big fat no

I don't understand why it even happened in the first place, it's not even what I was working on and it doesn't crash when I import it in another project

[faint pasture]

Time to import entire project into another project

[viscid barn]

agghhh gdi, when I import all of it, it does crash

[faint pasture]

No crash report?

[viscid barn]

I'll have to do it step by step to figure out what is fcking up

crash reports, yes

oh god.. no

It's the components that cause the crash

They're just totally not the bulk of the system

https://tenor.com/view/panda-facepalm-oh-no-worried-anxious-gif-17616305

[faint pasture]

Well, show the crash report

[final kiln]

Good evening, I have a doubt, I'm trying to make a system where according to the level of the player the cost multiplier increases (the default is 1.25x), and I want to be able to put for example, aparte do level 10 the multiplier will be 1.50x, but looking on the net I could not find a blueprint that serves for this situation, someone knows how I can do ?

[viscid barn]

just a second, the report is too long so I'll have to split it

[twilit heath]

report is useless without editor symbols installed

also, 3 backticks ` before and after the code block to format it

[viscid barn]

Ah thanks, I tried to make it collapseable but it didn't work hahaha

[faint pasture]

Make a curve.

[viscid barn]

where am I supposed to get that?

[twilit heath]

epic launcher, dropdown near your installed version, options, check editor symbols there

[final kiln]

Ok, thanks, I'll check the forum to see how it works

[viscid barn]

Ah thanks

adding them

[runic urchin]

Any reason why a static mesh scale would change when you move it under a Scene Component?

If the static mesh is is in the root the scale is 1,1,1

once I move it under a scene component it changes to 10, 10, 10

[viscid barn]

phew, luckily it's only one component that's crashing, it's the heaviest of them all but at least I won't need to redo absolutely everything

but it's bloody damn long, that's not even 10% of the error message

[lavish roost]

this may be big dumb but I have a blueprint each of a PlayerController and a PlayerCharacter, it's best practice to route input from the controller to the character, right? Is this typically done with a custom event for each input type on the character which the player controller calls? something like this?

[dawn gazelle]

You can place inputs directly in the characters. Any inputs that would be character agnostic (like say a pause menu input) should be put on the controller.

[viscid barn]

figured out it collapses it automatically now, that's why it didn't work before 😅

Thing is so long I'm not even sure where to look at.
Hard to believe a single component is causing that much issue when it worked just fine before :S

[lavish roost]

In the event that a player character is unpossessed, wouldn't it still retain those control mappings though?

[dawn gazelle]

When a character is possessed the inputs are fed from the playercontroller to the possessed character. Once unpossessed, those inputs are no longer fed to the unpossessed character.

[lavish roost]

ah, gotcha

tyvm

[bright harbor]

working in unreal engine 4.27 blueprints is there any simple way to make it so the player can't stand on an object? like if they tried they'll just be pushed away instead?

[viscid barn]

well by default you got the option to negate an actor's ability to step on objects in the collision settings

[bright harbor]

i tried setting can step up on to no, but nothing changed

[viscid barn]

otherwise, you could use something like AddActorWorldOffset or others like this (I believe that is how they do the character push in 2d fighting games like GGStrive)

a third option is to add an "invisible wall" to the object to prevent players to even get on top

[bright harbor]

this might be a longshot, but is there a way to tell an object it can't be walked on? like make the slope angle larger than the character movement supports without rotating the object itself?

[viscid barn]

you'll have to rely on invisible walls for that then

or reduce the angle/height your character can walk up to

or at least as far as I know that's the simplest option

[bright harbor]

wouldn't enabling this work?

or is it something different?

[viscid barn]

worth a try

[bright harbor]

i think with a bit of extra scripting i managed to get it working

tysm for the help

[vestal plinth]

is it possible to stream in a level in a different location, with a transform?

[sweet terrace]

Hey guys, if I want to scale an actor on blueprint, which one should I scale to have things work properly? CapsuleComponent or Mesh?

[final rampart]

Capsule Component (or a Box, or a Sphere) can basically be thought of as the pilot of the Character/Pawn that you're using.

Generally if you want the size change to mess with gameplay (should he actually fit in smaller spaces if smaller? Or have a greater reach when big?), go with Capsule.

If you want it to be a strictly cosmetic size change, it's probably better to scale by mesh.

[cobalt gulch]

Can someone please help me with importing a character onto the ue4 rig..

It works in blender fine, I can move the bones and everything is working, but when I import into ue4 it looks like a collapsed mess

I don't know if im exporting it wrong or something but im going insane lol

[dawn gazelle]

Try this

[cobalt gulch]

Will do

Thanks

[dawn gazelle]

Nevermind... Skeleton doesn't appear to be working in UE.

[cobalt gulch]

This is Auto Rig Pro's UE4 skeleton

But it should work

[hearty barn]

is there any way to export from blender in to ue4 that keeps both the objects origin point from blender and it's location? as it is right now I can import objects and the pivot is the world origin not the objects origin and if I leave objects where they are they will keep their transform but not their pivot point but if I move them by their origin to the world origin they will keep the proper pivot point but not their transform is there a way to keep both? I need to import 1000 objects into ue4 and I'd rather not move them back into place by hand

[brazen merlin]

i dont use blender, but in other software that i've used, there's been the same issue and i found scripts that handle the moving of each object to the origin for export then back. Maybe there is one for blender. If not, save your blender scene, then move all your objects to the origin, export, then reload the scene to before they were moved. Batch exporting is rather common afaik.

[tawdry surge]

Object origin of things exported from blender is the scene origin.

And blender is better than Maya and auto desk for 90% of things at this point. 100% use it

[brazen merlin]

lol

[hearty barn]

its not about them being moved to origin it's that that doesn't keep the translation in ue4 when they import that way they have a good pivot but the transform is off

[brazen merlin]

if they are exported from origin and the transforms are 0,0,0, it should come in the way you want. Maybe check the import settings of the mesh and see if there is added translate?

[hearty barn]

that one plate I manually entered in the transform

I don't want it at 0,0,0 I want it at 411.82, etc

[brazen merlin]

ohhh

it should preserve it, but again, it might be an import settings things not carrying over

[hearty barn]

yeah I know it's out there but it would make life so much easier if I don't move them to the origin it'll preserve the location data but it won't let me pivot them as these are vent plates to be opened

[tawdry surge]

If it's imported as an fbx scene all the objects should keep there relative positions

[hearty barn]

if I do that then in ue4 the pivot is in the middle of the ship so the panels can't be rotated correctly

the only way I've found to do it is the reset the transforms and manually enter in the location data for all 1008 plates by hand to match the location in blender

[brazen merlin]

pretty sure this doesnt need to be done, but hey, if nothing else, maybe you can rig it 😄

[tawdry surge]

Yeah that feels wrong, but I don't bring pre-assembled meshes over generally since it's more efficient to bring over peices and play lego master in unreal

[hearty barn]

Well it's the hero ship and I need it to look good for my game lol

[tawdry surge]

Wouldn't look any better or worse.
Just more modular, so instead of one ship I can make a dozen variations with the single set of meshes

[hearty barn]

Yeah 👍 I can do the same I unticked combine meshes so each part can be modular the only ship that isn't is the hero ship as the player will be flying only it I wanted a very distinct look that modular piece couldn't give me hence the individual vent plates I'm animating but oh well by hand it is

[grand oasis]

Hello, how would I go about using an external actor as the camera? I want to place the "Camera" bp into the scene and have it set as the main camera

[brazen merlin]

aside from making a custom one through camera manager class, i guess you could set location of the camera to your actor on tick

[grand oasis]

I'm doing this in another BP but it doesn't change the camera

[grand oasis]

I did not know camera manager even existed, maybe that might work

[brazen merlin]

its a bit complex. ive not worked with set view blend

[trim matrix]

hello guys

how can i detect collision without calling Onbegin overlap

is there any way to do can any one help me guys

[tawdry surge]

On hit is another option.
You can do a distance check if you feel like busting out the old school 2d methods (not the best)

[faint pasture]

Camera manager is pretty dope, you can just basically say "I want to view the world from this point at this rotation" and it does it. no actors or components involved..

[fervent temple]

how much slower are bps in practice compared to cpp

are bps faster than the same thing done in unity with c#

[maiden wadi]

Really depends on the thing.

[fervent temple]

lets say a multiplayer rpg game is tht gonna cause problems

no nativization as well cuz that dont even work half the time

[maiden wadi]

Blueprints can be 10% slower to 2000% slower or more than C++.

[fervent temple]

large range

[maiden wadi]

Well, consider what blueprints are meant to be used for. Designer stuff. Spawning a particle isn't going to be that much faster calling it from C++ or Blueprint. The heavy code is in C++ already anyhow, it's a rare call maybe few times a second max. You won't see a performance difference moving that to C++. In fact it'll just annoy you because blueprints have easy static access to particles, meshes, etc, and having to get those assets in C++ requires work arounds that aren't as simple as "Spawn this, kbye"

Now, world generation on the other hand. Several iterations of long drawling functions that have to rerun over and over. You're going to see blueprint pretty much die here. Blueprint causes many function overhead calls and will start breaking down performance wise in these heavy mathematical areas.

[fervent temple]

ok lemme add some hypotheticals.

Lets say theres an inventory/health/major system in the marketplace that has a <1 ms latency. pure bp asset. really clean coding.

could i say reference this asset through cpp when i needed to do heavy math for some tasks in an rpg or would i have to recode the whole thing in cpp.

(total noob to ue4 cpp but i know normal cpp)

[maiden wadi]

You can do anything you want in C++ as long as you understand how to do it.

[fervent temple]

awesome

[maiden wadi]

As far as C# versus blueprint. Never used C#, but it would be much faster in the heavier areas. As a written language you have more performance tools to use. Less function overheads, etc. Can't compare how it is to use as a designer as I've never done it.

Also. C++ in Unreal is extremely easy if you just follow a couple basic engine rules. You can get away with leaving a lot in Blueprint if you want and only moving performance unfriendly code to base classes. But I will say that not being able to base class core engine framework is just asking for trouble. There are so many thing you can do by just being able to override engine virtual functions.

[fervent temple]

ok thanks for the help

[grand oasis]

Going over the documentation and some tutorials now to see if I can get my smooth camera following stuff to work, How will I do that? I have no clue, but this seems like the first step

[trim matrix]

UE4 saves auto saves in the temp folder or the app data folder I am pretty sure

I saved my work from there once when I fucked it up beyond belief

[icy dragon]

With the twist that auto save restore only works if you enable the editor's source control feature

[trim matrix]

No?!

Dude UE4 has auto saves that work without scm

[tawdry mural]

is that branch error or isvalid error?

points me to standart macros

[maiden wadi]

You are trying to access a pointer that is invalid.

[icy dragon]

Yes.

[unreal token]

I asked this the other day, but for some reason it didn't save and it's back. I'm supposed to add something in project settings?

[icy dragon]

The autosave works regardless, but the automated restoring only works with in editor source control enabled.
I do not specifically said the autosave won't work without it at all, but just the automated restoring.

[unreal token]

also this

https://tenor.com/view/the-shining-jack-nicholson-gif-20985406

[maiden wadi]

Enum no longer contains Soft entry. Just needs unhooked to compile.

Other two look like you're missing named Axis bindings in project settings.

Enum issue may be project settings as well, unsure. Haven't used physical materials.

[unreal token]

we had the soft thing working the other day. I added something in project settings, and a thing appeared on that node, to hook to that bottom node.

[tawdry mural]

will this be exactly in mainWGT somewhere or it can be in BP thats trying to access it?

[maiden wadi]

It tells you where the issue is. If you click on the Branch or IsValid, it should open your MainWGT blueprint and zoom to where that error is caused from.

[warm kite]

Good morning, can someone explaine me in simple how i can change the physic? Thx I dont understand this Preset Physic

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1XOnxwDbnna0tTfXQzaXZnWNoiK9IFky3/view

[tawdry mural]

it just opens standart macros

[trim matrix]

Do I need to have 2 random nodes to roll twice, or dragging from the same pin to two different locations gives me two randoms

[tawdry mural]

gives two randoms

[trim matrix]

you sure?

[tawdry mural]

yes

do print strings

[primal smelt]

Could somebody please tell me what the difference is between

A: calling a BPI function (where target is selected bp -left)
B: calling it as an "interface call"? (where target is BPI Grab - right)

I have some of these nodes implemented using A - where a reference to another bp (implementing the bpi of course) is plugged into the target node and communicates just fine. I also have another handle of nodes using B with another bp (also implementing) plugged into target - that also works fine.

There must be a difference between the two because when I change the ones from A to B, the engine crashes!

[brazen merlin]

my hunch on the whole "target" thing is that it means that it is the owner of the function call. As long as the class has the interface added to it, it would have the option to call it. Nevertheless, I don't think you want those calls, i think those are messages. I forget what they are called - I think there is message, call, and one other - and that one other is found as a bpi call when you turn off context sensitive.

[primal smelt]

Message is the one that appears when you deselect context sensitive, I'll stay away from that until I know what it does!

But you say I should be good (for simple communication at least) if I stick with the one on the left that has the bp name as the target?

[brazen merlin]

i dont use the ones you have with the lime green input. The one on the right (with the envelope) is the Call, which you put a Target actor in to call it on. So on the called actor, it would have the event to execute.

[primal smelt]

Oh I see, so essentially the same thing but sans passing across variables?

[brazen merlin]

i just looked into it. You want to be using the Call Function or the Message. Not the interface call.

[brazen merlin]

i suppose. I use the Message.

like that

[primal smelt]

Great thanks, I'll ignore the interface calls for now. Strange as the nodes using that worked fine until the engine crashed and now they don't work at all!

[brazen merlin]

yeah the crash i dont know why

i wish this part of bpi wasnt awkwardly confusing

[primal smelt]

Yeah that is basically what my setup is with the normal call but I have access to the variable pins

[brazen merlin]

the message will also pass inputs

[primal smelt]

I think it's my first engine crash too, haven't tried to replicate it exactly - might do in a mo. But I closed when it crashed, opened it again, code didn't work. Restarted Unreal a second time and now it works again. Can't remember the last time an application insisted on a twofer with a restart!

[primal smelt]

I'm an idiot, I just realised the message node I linked was for an empty function and not the same one 😆

Which is why there were no variable pins!

[brazen merlin]

thinking on it, i believe its just message that you need

i forget the uses for the other two lol

[primal smelt]

Thanks for helping me out, I'll read up on it further and try using the message node too

But why does the message node only become available when you deselect context sensitive?

[trim matrix]

Yeah you can restore it by looking at the files in the auto save directory. That’s what i was fucking talking about lmfao

[icy dragon]

And it's fucking cumbersome if you ask me.

[brazen merlin]

#blueprint message

[primal smelt]

Gotcha!

[tight pollen]

i have Structure and i make from this structure "Make Array" how can i set for selected index from array new values?

[brazen merlin]

generally SetMembers is for updating Structs. Also Structs are a pain to work with in bp, so dont expect the cleanest method.

[empty needle]

I can't agree more with this. It's not the most fun.

And trying to update them through multiple layers of UI

Even less fun

[near copper]

Is keeping every thing straight normal? Or is that considered time-wasting? Because I've seen several people in tutorials I've watched and none of them really explain whether to organize it all and I think every single one has usually just left a curvy somewhat jumbled mess. But if that's the norm because straitening it all is time-consuming then I maybe I'll start focusing more on efficiency.

[brazen merlin]

it's an aesthetic, makes it easier to read

[near copper]

Especially that bottom image there, the guy I was watching didn't have that much space down there, I just felt the need to make it all straight.

[brazen merlin]

some people use a plugin that makes them straight/angled lines instead

it would actually be better to avoid this when possible though

[near copper]

Why is that? Is time-consumption the main issue or is it the excessive amount of reroute nodes?

[brazen merlin]

that bottom one looks like tick, so setting the delta seconds to a var and then hooking that var up would mean no wires over the entire thing

there's a nuance about how data gets accessed with bp - the calling function pulls from everything that is is plugged into it

so it's better practice to be aware of what is plugged in by setting vars instead of long wires

it becomes evident when doing things with random

its also how programmers would be setting up things in code since they dont reroute, they define all their variables

[near copper]

Just making sure, "var" means "variable" right?

[brazen merlin]

yeah

[brazen merlin]

this one doesn't have reroutes or is doing what im talking about btw, this one is fine, but as for straight wires - its an aesthetic

[near copper]

Oooh I see, so this is essentially a bad habit, I'll start trying so avoid this and use variables more often.

[brazen merlin]

i cant remember which video, i think it was an epic live training on blueprint basics with zac parrish, and he mentions this

it seems more jumbled, but based on how bp works, its better practice to plug in the same variable that use a wire than to channel out that value where needed via reroute wires

again, its not the long or straight wires part

it's trying to avoid reroutes, if possible

and there are places where you cant

[near copper]

Okay, I'm starting to understand a lot more. Thank you so much, that was a very good explanation!

I've been following along this Chris Murphy tutorial on pinball and I haven't really been understanding his blueprint section.

Re-did the image to un-include his links, I don't want to get in trouble for throwing links around...

[brazen merlin]

how dare you

[near copper]

What? Did i do something wrong??

[brazen merlin]

lol no sorry jk

[near copper]

XD i wasnt sure how strict the link-posting rules were

[fiery glen]

as long as it's not spam/self promotion etc

...I think

[frank rover]

So what parts did you not understand?

[near copper]

Ooooh

[brazen merlin]

I believe this covers what i was referring to
https://medium.com/advanced-blueprint-scripting-in-unreal-engine/pure-impure-functions-516367cff14f

[near copper]

It's mostly been a lack of in-depth explanation. Not to say his tutorial is bad, it's actually been extremely helpful and informative. I'm just having a hard time as a beginner since he will add in nodes like "branch" nodes or "Get Save Data" or something and I'm left confused as to: where did these nodes come from? Like what reason are we using this specifically or how was I to know it existed if I hadn't been shown that? Or all these pretty specific node names that confuse me. Idk, many things, though most are probably common beginner questions. Aside from that, I am aware I still have so much to learn.

[near copper]

Thank you!

Its amazing how fast your priorities change after less than an hour on a public discord server at like 2:30am

[jolly island]

Hello, when I possess my player character, its camera (third person template camera) gets left behind and doesn't follow it until after the possess is over. How can I keep the camera following the player while possessed?

[lucid lynx]

Any reason why this wouldn't work? RH_Weapon is a skeletal mesh with two sockets for where I want this sword trail particle to start and stop. The custom events are called from an attack montage, but the actual trail particle never appears.

[trim matrix]

Hi guys, apologies for the newbie question but could someone let me know if this is the correct way to check if enough points have been gathered to proceed to the next level?
It works fine but I`m sure I do not need to do it with event tick.
Many thanks in advance!

[tawny hedge]

anyone knows any good tutorial or course using cooldown values higher than a float of 1 can be implemented in UMG?

[gentle urchin]

Just remap / calculate percentage

[frank rover]

It would be better to check only when you add points. Instead of every frame ;)

[tawny hedge]

thanks

[gentle urchin]

Remaining / total etc

1 - if you need it inversed

[trim matrix]

Thank you, the part of that that confuses me is if begin event play only checks at the start and event tick constantly checks, how do I get begin event play to check the condition?
I`ll do some googling first!

[lucid lynx]

I don't know why, but after taking that screenshot it started working. I'm absolutely baffled, but I'll take it.

[rough cedar]

I have a question about anim notifies. I'm currently firing off a montage to equip my weapon as soon as a certain animation montage plays. Which works but it just plays the entire weapon equip animation and doesnt play the actual attack. I want the equip to play then the animation to play. Is this possible?

[timber knoll]

Then you would want to check if your weapon is equipped, if not first do the montage then followed by the attack

You basically wrote exactly what you need 😛

Play montage > play attack

[gentle urchin]

You should try to go more event driven, and not relying on constant checks like a tick is.

Event tick is ment to be used in cases where you need something to update every frame (like animation)

[frank rover]

The best way is to implement a function like AddScore somewhere for example in the GameState und inside the character. Now everytime you get or loose score, this function should be called to add the score. And at the end of the function you can just do a simple check if score > x and have a simple system that just runs the calculations if they are necessary ^^

[rough cedar]

@timber knoll I would assume I should set a variable if my weapon is attached but how do I get the montage to see that and play the next part?

[timber knoll]

and if you seperate equip/attack you have the on complete pin to start a new montage right after 🙂

both methods would work just fine, up to you what you prefer

[rough cedar]

oohhhh I get it now. Thanks!

[gentle urchin]

Isnt it a bit weird to combine equip/attack montages?

as they can be very different, and generally is exclusive anyways

[rough cedar]

Yeah I also did an alternate version of this by just adding in the equp animation to the attack montage and firing an equip weapon BP notify when the hand reaches for the weapon to snap it. But I will be needing the method Eezeh showed me for something else I have in mind!

But the original reason for this is my weapon has its own montage animations I need it to also play at specific times

[trim matrix]

@frank rover @gentle urchin Thank you for your help, it now only checks when the character tries to enter a portal!

[gentle urchin]

Atleast thats event driven 😄

I would suggest checking whenever a point is recieved tho

then you can easily react to it by playing some sound que and do some effects when the player has enough points to move to the next level

[trim matrix]

Yeah, I have that in the player blueprint, I just have a number of boxes a player has to jump on to get to the next level, super simple but I`m finding it pretty good to learn the basics

Sorry, I meant in my block blueprint

Player BP

[sullen saffron]

ok, so My game is going to have 2 different characters that are going to play very differently from one another. Now I've seen a metric ton of tutorials showing different ways to set up a character select Menu screen, but They don't explain how they set up the second character. Would the second character be a separate CharacterBP?... And if I was trying to do something like Diablo 3 and have like 5 different charters with 2 different genders each, would I need 10 CharaterBPs then?

[earnest tangle]

There are a few ways it could be done

You could for example have a BP_MyCharacterBase which contains the functionality which is shared between all your character types, and then one subclass per character "archetype". If archetypes have genders, then you could either swap the model or have a subclass which swaps the model

[sullen saffron]

thanks, i'll have to look into that because making a bunch of CharacterBPs from scratch for each race/gender seems tedious af. lol

[frank rover]

For easy edit it could make sense to have a base character class and create subclasses for the individuals :)

[bold badge]

Shouldn't running this result in 6 values being added to the Array?

I'm trying to figure out if it is user error or something Unreal Engine 5 specific.

[sullen saffron]

each race in my game has their own model and animations(then sepperate animations based on Gender), but one race plays all together different.. would a subclass system be able to account for all those changes?

[maiden wadi]

It should.

[bold badge]

Tested it in both 4.27 and 5.0 and it doesn't work.

It must be something super obvious that I am missing.

[gentle urchin]

default values doesnt update

instanced values does

Top one is from the spawned actor

bottom one is the class default

@bold badge

[bold badge]

So the default one doesn't update, but the instances in the level update?

[gentle urchin]

yepp

[bold badge]

Same script as mine?

[gentle urchin]

yepp

[bold badge]

Yup.

Works on mine as well. I was testing on a character and had no visible instances in the level. That's why I didn't cross my mind.

Thanks.

[gentle urchin]

np

[bold badge]

I tried anything else there was to try :)).

[balmy rampart]

someone knows what wrap means and how it works?

[remote meteor]

if you insert value 14 in a wrap of 0min 10max, it becomes 4

[balmy rampart]

like a modulo

[gentle urchin]

pretty much

[leaden raven]

does anyone know why this wont work? its a function thats supposed to make a translucent cube snap on a grid sized 40 when i press E, but whenever I press E it just comes back to an error saying: "Attempted to access GhostBlock_C_0 via property GhostBlock, but GhostBlock_C_0 is pending kill" and gives me the location of the error which is the last node on the far right, or the variable

[odd ember]

ensure that you check that the hit actually hit, and that the target of the hit is valid before doing any calculations

[leaden raven]

i dont understand how to do that if im completely honest

oh i fixed it, it was the spawnactor nodes, the collision handling override was messing with it so it never ended up setting the ghost block as a reference

[frank rover]

Use a Branch and the bool connects to the ReturnValue of the trace that is true when something got hit. Using traces to position this cube on a grid is probably not the most efficient way to solve the problem :)

[viscid barn]

Checked, was clean empty 😂

[trim matrix]

Guys anyway to change Static mesh pivot in a bp?

adjust*

[fervent raft]

I'm trying to rotate a single bone based on mouse input, how can I do this in UE5? It seems like some nodes from UE4 have been removed.

[tawdry surge]

@trim matrix offset it from the default scene root and rotate the root

[trim matrix]

I was woundering if there's a way to do it permanently via editor

not offsetting just adjusting the pivot permanently

[odd ember]

there isn't. you'll have to handle that in your 3d package

[trim matrix]

I c, not even plugin?

[odd ember]

who knows

[versed sun]

there is

[odd ember]

I wouldn't expect anyone to know the state of every plugin out there

[versed sun]

put mesh in an actor, adjust mesh rel location in actor to where you want it

[odd ember]

@versed sun did you read

[versed sun]

place actor in world , the right click and "convert actor to static mesh

[trim matrix]

but that essentialy make a new static mesh

[versed sun]

it is

then you can replace the old mesh

[trim matrix]

right

will try that

thanks

[tawdry mural]

how differs invalidate and clear and invalidate ?

timers

[versed sun]

i do it often when ,y 3d artist can get to it fast enough and I need to keep moving

[tawdry mural]

need more simple explanation

[versed sun]

also , you will have to re-build collision on new mesh

[odd ember]

I have not seen invalidate timer? does that exist?

only clear and invalidate timer exists

[odd ember]

click on the invalidate node?

[odd ember]

right so

clear and invalidate timer

invalidates the handle AND clears the timer

[tawdry mural]

sets to 0 sec?

[odd ember]

invalidate handle just unlinks the handle from the timer

/** Explicitly clear handle */
    void Invalidate()
    {
        Handle = 0;
    }```

[tawdry mural]

like unsets the variable?

[odd ember]

unlinks the handle from the timer

[tawdry mural]

wheres that can be used?

[odd ember]

I don't know?

clear and invalidate can be used in places where you need to clear the timer

[tawdry mural]

clear means what exactly

[odd ember]

means the timer will no longer run

[tawdry mural]

just that?

[odd ember]

yes

[tawdry mural]

so if you just invalidate it it will run or what 😄

[odd ember]

yes

[tawdry mural]

but?

[odd ember]

no but?

[tawdry mural]

it still runs but its now invalidated

[odd ember]

the handle is invalidated

the timer is unaffected

[tawdry mural]

doesnt affect the custom event?

[odd ember]

presumably not

you are just unlinking the handle from the timer

[tawdry mural]

how is that useful

😄

[odd ember]

I don't know?

[tawdry mural]

yh

[odd ember]

I'm just telling you what the code does

which is what you asked

[tawdry mural]

ye the node is stupid

what happens when you start the same timer again?

in between its ticks

[odd ember]

it will restart at the time you start it again, invalidating its old time

[crystal crown]

@odd ember Hey CE. I got the pawn to reset it's X-roll. But it resets upside down. If i divide by -1 it resets on it's side. I'm shit at math

[odd ember]

I guess that means you'll have to get better at math 🙂

try multiplying by -1 and see what that does

[crystal crown]

Both when i multiply or divide by -1 it sets on it's side relative to world

if i don't multiply or divide it centers upside down

same thing with 90 & -90

[odd ember]

you might need to use quaternions then

[hexed glade]

Does anyone here have experience in animation blueprints or should I stick to #animation ?

[tawdry mural]

depends on your problem

[hexed glade]

I'm using a layer blend per bone to allow different upper and lower body animations, but this causes some animations to break. I'm trying to find a way to allow for some animations to blend while others to go straight to output pose.

[tawdry mural]

make another blend per bool

and just switch it when you need

?

[hexed glade]

Blend per bool will still cause any animation I run through it to blend unfortunatly.

[tawdry mural]

Hmm thats not how blend per bool works tho

Maybe you have it the wrong place

[hexed glade]

Never mind. After some more digging I stumbled upon a variable which was not attached and caused this mess. Now everything is fine 😄

[tawdry mural]

@odd ember sry for ping boss

something like that crashes the game

in standalone

i load levels from array of names

with a delay

maybe you know why it happens?

its an array of small 60 levels

like rly small , with one character in there

[odd ember]

how should I know lmao

why ping me

so random

[maiden wadi]

@crystal crown Why aren't you just setting roll back to zero?

[tawdry mural]

cus u helped me b4

[mild crystal]

Hello, i would like to know if its possible swap between to anim_Bp? like when they go inside a trigger box it switch to other anim bp

[odd ember]

you're not giving me incentive to help you again if you're gonna ping me

[crystal crown]

I have tried to do so for 2 days now. I'm doing something wrong.

[odd viper]

anyone have any idea if its possible to extract data from the browser console from my website and bring it in to the game? for example when my user does something on my website it creates an array of items in the console. Can i take this array and bring it to ue4?

[maiden wadi]

Can I see your reset roll function?

[tawdry mural]

ok.

[mild crystal]

Hello, i would like to know if its possible swap between to anim_Bp? like when they go inside a trigger box it switch to other anim bp

[odd ember]

well you can call custom events from the console. but I'm not sure how that works with browsers and all

[odd ember]

have you tried?

[odd viper]

so im using the launch url in my blueprints
it opens my website after he launches the game
he logs in on the website and some data is filled into an array which you can see if you open the browser console
then i gotta take that info and use it in ue

[odd ember]

so I assume that's an external application?

external browser?

[odd viper]

ye it opens their browser which is set to go to my website

[odd ember]

yeah there's no callback for that into unreal

[odd viper]

they need to enter some info before they can return to the game

[odd ember]

you'd have to have some middleware or use an in game browser to get the data

or have the server of the website communicate directly with the unreal instance somehow

[odd viper]

yeah this is complex as i thought. Thanks ill keep digging

[trim matrix]

Dear all, does anyone know the easiest way to turn a blueprint child into a own blueprint

[mild crystal]

yes, i create a reference to the trigger box then cast to my character and now idk what to do. I want to change the animBp when entering inside the box trigger

[somber sand]

Does anyone know how to switch back from viewing a blueprint in the full editor to the collapsed/simplified view (where you just have your settings)? I've been trying to google this but can't seem to find the right terminology/solution

[odd ember]

the animBP value resides on the skeletal mesh afaik

[odd ember]

what does this mean?

[trim matrix]

so basically i create a blueprint and then create a child off of it, I dont want the child to execute any of the code @peak wedge

I want it to execute its own code

[odd ember]

... sure?

just don't call super

[trim matrix]

what does that mean

sorry I am new

[odd ember]

ah right it's called parent function call or something

just remove that if it's present at all

[versed sun]

In your child, call the event you DONT want to run, and just dont put anything after it

[trim matrix]

so on the initial blueprint I print a message, and then I created a child off of it

[maiden wadi]

Oh, you're adding rotation. You need to invert the world rotation's roll from zero.

[trim matrix]

and I dont want to execute the print there

[odd ember]

okay, go into the newly made class and screenshot the event graph

[trim matrix]

Main

[versed sun]

Parent Code

[trim matrix]

child

[versed sun]

Child Code

Child Code

[trim matrix]

wtf @versed sun ?

[odd ember]

cool so it doesn't have anything that calls the parent functionality here

[versed sun]

what event do you not want to fire in your child ?

[crystal crown]

Could you please explain to a 5 year old or make a quick example. I don't get it atm

[trim matrix]

I created the child so I do not have to create all the components etc again

[mild crystal]

what this mean? that i cant switch?

[odd ember]

if you right click on any of those events that you have, you can see an option that say Add call to parent function. if you click that, it will add a node that calls parent functionality. if you don't want that, don't have that node @trim matrix

[versed sun]

yes , but they will fire unless you tell it to do something else

[maiden wadi]

@crystal crown Try something closer to this. AddLocal on an actor does that to it's root component. Root component's relative is to world. So if your actor's world roll is -20, if you get that and invert it to 20 and add 20 to it's local roll, it should zero out.

[trim matrix]

I deleated everything in the event graph on the child BP

and it still fires lol

[versed sun]

yup

as it should

[trim matrix]

so

I need to tell it not to

[versed sun]

ok, name a event that you dont want to fire

[trim matrix]

the print atm

that is all I have in the parent

[versed sun]

but what is the event ?

ok

[trim matrix]

I am just trying to learn cross BP comm etc

[versed sun]

so in child, add an event On component begin overlap(bombspot trigger)

and dont put anything after it

[odd ember]

recreate that event in the child and see if it still fires

[versed sun]

yes

[trim matrix]

still triggers the print lol

its the weirdest thing!

[versed sun]

can you right click on that node and "add call to parent"

?

[trim matrix]

no

thats in the child

[versed sun]

on top corner of child , what does your parent class say ?

[versed sun]

hmmm

[mild crystal]

Hello, i would like to know if its possible swap between to anim_Bp? like when they go inside a trigger box it switch to other anim bp

[dawn gazelle]

This should work.

[crystal crown]

I'm so damn stupid. My branch node was stopping the flipping thing to zero itself out.

multiplying by -1 worked after all

[mild crystal]

thx

[crystal crown]

thank you very much guys

[undone willow]

how do I make it play the sound just once and not continue to play it?

[odd ember]

click the down arrow on the node

[odd ember]

then if there's no option there it needs to be set on the sound cue it self

[undone willow]

ah

[tawdry surge]

Have you tried making sure the time dilation actually goes back to normal with a print string?

[mild crystal]

hi guys, another thing how do i setup a transition inside the anim bp, like when i pressed left button it will enter in the transition

[pine trellis]

everytime i open unreal I get this error, anyone know how I can fix?

[tawdry surge]

Maybe lerp or set it on a timeline instead. Should be more accurate then a delay

Or a timer

[mild crystal]

how can i setup this? So i want to have 2 type of gameplay. I want to put 2 bind for different things, For exemple a left mouse button to jump but when inside a trigger box i want it to attack. How do i do it?

[tawdry surge]

For an action event you could just use a bool and a branch off pressed

Use the trigger to set the bool

[mild crystal]

thx, one more thing, how do i get the character speed?

[chilly canopy]

Hello, I'm trying to learn blueprint logic and I'm struggling with a very tiny detail. I've created a simple respawn point, and it functions just fine, but the player seems to respawn off to the side. I've added lights to the spawn points so I can visually see the logic, and I can test that the respawn works just fine. However, when respawning, the character respawns off to the side of the spawn point. Am I missing something? I'm sure it's probably something trivial.

[tiny frost]

any one know how to spawn a static mesh using bp

[faint pasture]

It might be adjusting position due to collision. Is there room enough at SpawnTransform for the character capsule to fit?

[mild crystal]

thx, one more thing, how do i get the character speed?

[faint pasture]

Get velocity, get length of that

[mild crystal]

ok thx

[chilly canopy]

I thought that too, but the Character_BP is set to ignore collision upon spawn

[faint pasture]

You have "Always spawn, ignore coliision" set on the spawn actor node?

that might be fine but AFTER spawning, the character might realize it's colliding and move

It's not gonna stay in a colliding state

[chilly canopy]

So I need to change the collision for the collision box, is that correct?

[faint pasture]

I'd guess it's spawning with it's feet colliding with the white mesh

[viscid barn]

WTF? it happened again and even when I retrieve it from my backup it fucks up

it's not even the same file and I had barely started recreating the component

https://tenor.com/view/smh-omg-really-wow-gif-14886108

[mild crystal]

how do i get the lenght of the velocity?

[maiden wadi]

Drag off of the vector pin and type length.

[dry mantle]

Hey guys, this is driving me crazy, can you help me out?

This is my DoorUI (Widget BP)

[mild crystal]

i made this

[dry mantle]

and this is my Door button actor

[mild crystal]

how can i put the player velocity?

[maiden wadi]

Don't use == or != for floats. Use Nearly equal.

[dry mantle]

'Widget' is the DoorUI

[mild crystal]

ok

[tawdry mural]

?

😄

[dry mantle]

Is not getting to print string

@tawdry mural why the question mark

Oh

yes, I fixed that, I did have another print string to see if I got there

[tawdry mural]

the question is

[dry mantle]

I fixed it but still doesnt work

[mild crystal]

ok thx its working

[tawdry mural]

is that the only door in the game

[dry mantle]

right now yes, but its not gonna be

Door Button Actor has a Door UI

and Door Button Actor has a Door Actor variable to set

each Door Button Actor has a Door UI itself

[jolly hare]

Does anyone know how I can change the the save game from slot and load game from slot to a directory inside the "content" directory? I need to be able to load .sav files from the game instance because they have level structure information in them, but It seems like my .sav files are not being packaged and loaded at the start.

[versed sun]

where do you add the Widget to viewport ?

[faint pasture]

That sounds really hacky.

[dry mantle]

Its not on the viewport, is on a mesh

Widget = Door UI

Im doing the UI interactive on the world

[versed sun]

ok

does your Hello print ?

[jolly hare]

I'm generating the levels procedurally, then saving that information in the save file, then loading it so that it will be the same afterwards.

[dry mantle]

@versed sun yes, Hello prints fine

[versed sun]

maybe uncheck the "Call in editor" on the Door opened event _0

[dry mantle]

let me try

ok idk where I checked that but I remember I did

[dry mantle]

it shows with that weird icon and its not showing more options than this:

says Graph is not editable

[versed sun]

Click on the Door opened event _0, it will be on the right in Details

[versed sun]

delete it an make a new custom event

?

[dry mantle]

now if I connect it, all those options dissapear

[versed sun]

ok, make it unchecked before you connect the Red Delegate

[dry mantle]

yes, its unchecked

still doesnt work 😦

[versed sun]

ok, you might be binding before it exists on the door

[dry mantle]

if I add a string after binding, it shows the string "Binds fine"

[versed sun]

add a delay 0.0 before the bind

like , i needs a tick for the widget to load

[dry mantle]

still doesnt work, tried with 2 seconds delay too

its driving me crazy

I leave here more information about the Door Button and DoorUI

[versed sun]

might try #umg

[dry mantle]

ok thanks for helping me out

[versed sun]

there might be something special about world space widgets... dunno

[faint pasture]

@dry mantleWhy are you doing all this binding, just notify the widget when door is opened or closed

[flat bison]

hey guys, im trying to learn Blueprinting and couldnt find it on internet so wanna ask you. What is the difference between Get and Set when dropping into the bp building space ? can someone explain it really basically and give an example please

[dry mantle]

One reads the value to do other stuff, the other sets a new value to it

[faint pasture]

Begin play -> Construct widget -> pass over bDoorIsOpen
On Activate (Or RepNotify if multiplayer) -> pass over bDoorIsOpen

[faint pasture]

You really oughta read some sort of Programming 101 article if Get and Set are foreign to you.

[dry mantle]

I want to do a reusable Door Button, where you can set a Door Actor variable to it, and automatically that door button will open that set Door Actor (calling a function to it). What I'm doing right now is, Event dispatcher OPEN at DoorUI, in DoorActor bind this event dispatcher to an event, and that event doesnt get to the end which is a print string.

[flat bison]

im literally a beginner

[faint pasture]

Have the link between doors and buttons happen between them. So you'd have bButtonState and bDoorState. When linked, the button sets its door's bDoorState based on its bButtonState

[peak solstice]

What is SET MORPH TARGET, and what can I do with it in 3rd person game mode?

also what is stick bones look like in UE4 if imported from Blender?

[faint pasture]

Exactly. Start from the absolute basics of programming in general.

[trim matrix]

Get = Get the current value of the variable
Set = Overwrite/Set the variable's value

Simple as that 🙂

[faint pasture]

I would not have the widget communicating with the door. Just have it communicate with the button which communicates with ITS door.

[dry mantle]

I will try this, thanks man, will let you know how it goes

[flat bison]

thanks but can you give me an example please ?

[dry mantle]

What I tried to do is, Widget event dispatcher > Door Button Event > Door open

[peak solstice]

@dry mantle
Are you working on doors in your game?

[gentle urchin]

Get Health -> Returns the amount of health i have left (the value of my health variable)

Set Health -> Tells the Health variable what value it shall have.

I'm dead if Health <= 0

Im alive if im !Dead

[chilly canopy]

This was it, I turned off collision for the plane and problem solved

[dry mantle]

Yes I want to do the Star Citizen door panel in the game world

[peak solstice]

Oh, so door buttons

Which version?

[dry mantle]

how do you listen to boolean change? thats why I tought I would need an event dispatcher

[peak solstice]

Overlap or linetrace

[dry mantle]

Im new to UE so not sure, I come from Unity, Im using a Widget Interaction in the player

[peak solstice]

Oh, fuck Unity, UE better

[dry mantle]

hahaha

[faint pasture]

That depends on if you want communication to be 2 way or 1 way. You can just have Button call an event on it's Door when changed. If it's Multiplayer, RepNotify makes it easy.

[dry mantle]

definitely

[dry mantle]

yeah but how does the button knows the UI was clicked

the Clicked event on the button actor doesnt work

only the Clicked event on the widget UI

[peak solstice]

Widget like this

[faint pasture]

That could be a bind between the button and button UI itself. What I'm saying is the UI should not be talking to doors at all. It talks to the button

[dry mantle]

But that's what I'm currently doing, I'm not even doing anything to the door, just trying to get to print string trought event dispatcher

[unreal quail]

there is no way to make a BP node like this right?

I wanna make an attack function with multiple latent out executions

[faint pasture]

You can do it any way you want.

On clicked -> Call UpdateState on MyButtonActor

Or MyButtonActor can bind an event to a dispatcher on its ButtonUIWidget

I do the first one but you can do whatever.

[versed sun]

a Macro can have multiple Exec out pins

[unreal quail]

yeah but it has to be a macro right? in my case I want to call it on my Character from a BTT

[viscid barn]

you can use a switch on notify name

[unreal quail]

Huh?

I think you misunderstood my question

I just want to make a function on my character with multiple latent out pins

[viscid barn]

Ah

[unreal quail]

So that on my btt I can finish execution only when the montage finishes playing

Right now I'm doing something quite hacky that looks very ugly

[viscid barn]

LOL

[unreal quail]

I basically am doing the attack directly on the btt

[viscid barn]

I'll take the shot even though edited 😛

[unreal quail]

Sorry for the insult my auto correct fucked up xD

[viscid barn]

Hahahahaha

[dry mantle]

On clicked -> Call UpdateState on MyButtonActor

I kinda liked this approach, so UI will have a reference to the door button actor?

[unreal quail]

I swear it wasn't on propose

[viscid barn]

No offense taken, it actually had me snort 🤣

[dry mantle]

@faint pasture how do you spot the door button? with tag?

I mean how do you spot it to call the UpdateState func

[faint pasture]

Between the widget and button or door and button?

[dry mantle]

widget and button

[faint pasture]

Button owns the widget component and is spawning the widget so it can set a ref to self. Or the widget can get its owner, cast to button, set ref.

[viscid barn]

If I understood your goal correctly; I guess you could set a variable to become true once the animation is over (blend out or however else you prefer) and then set your relevant BTTs to only happen if that variable is true, that way when the animation is playing it cannot perform any of them

[dry mantle]

like this right?

[faint pasture]

Or if you want references to only flow one way, button can bind an event to a delegate on widget

[viscid barn]

@unreal quail

[dry mantle]

In that screen I'm referencing widget from button, and I need the other way around

[unreal quail]

Nah it's to run the finish execution

[faint pasture]

First of all do you wanna use a dispatcher or just a direct reference?

[unreal quail]

Basically if the montage is interrupted I want to finish execution with a failure and when it finishes as a success I want to finish the BTTask with a success

[viscid barn]

Ahhh I understand, you want to delay FinishExecution until the animation is actually over

Sorry, took a while for my brain to register 😅

[dry mantle]

tbh, right now, whatever works to make them reusable and scalable

like, drop the button, drop the door, connect them, and they work.

thats what Im trying to achieve at least

[faint pasture]

Just make a variable of type Button Actor Reference in the widget BP and set it from the Button when created

In Button
Create widget -> Set MyButton(self)

[viscid barn]

Unfortunately I don't know a "clean" way to do what you want, @unreal quail
I can think of patchworky ways but I've no idea how well that'll go 😅

[faint pasture]

Or
In Button
Create Widget -> Bind event to ButtonWidget.OnClicked

[dry mantle]

so instead of having the widget in the hierarchy I should use create widget right

[unreal quail]

Welp I already have a patchworky one

[faint pasture]

You're confusing a widget with a widget component

widget component just displays a widget in world space

[unreal quail]

Only other thing I can think of is using Delegates

And well that'll be a mess so I'd rather avoid that

[faint pasture]

The ownership goes
ButtonActor -> WidgetComponent -> Actual Widget

[unreal quail]

I think I'll use delegates instead

I just can't stand looking at this

makes me feel icky

[brazen merlin]

the icky here is the reroutes. just store the cast result (set variable) and then plug in that var instead of all the wires

i believe that is calling the cast function for each node that needs it anyways

[unreal quail]

ah

[surreal peak]

Reroute nodes are not causing it to call multiple times

You mistake this for pure nodes

[brazen merlin]

thanks Exi

[unreal quail]

ah yeah it's not a pure cast

you scared me

@surreal peak what should I do in your opinion ?

[surreal peak]

I have no idea what you need. Only read the part from Conrad

[unreal quail]

basically I'm finding myself forced to do my AnimMontage play on the BTT because I can't figure out how to call the finish node when the montage is done

I guess I could pass an event Dispatcher bound to the finish execute node and then call it from my character when anim montage is done

[brazen merlin]

i have it setup where my montage changes a boolean when it finishes

it stays in this task until it completes

[unreal quail]

I want to avoid that :/

[brazen merlin]

well this is a task, so you'd have to be checking something on its tick

task can tick right?

[unreal quail]

not necessarily

yup

but in my case it doesn't

the play montage node calls finish execute directly

[brazen merlin]

i mean this is happening when you first step into this task

so you have to wait until the montage finishes, i.e. check on tick for when its done

[unreal quail]

no because there is also a delegate called when it's finished

[brazen merlin]

honestly seems simple enough to use an anim notify so that it can be set based on the animation

[peak solstice]

Which would be better for customizable characters?
One Mesh Body or Multi-Mesh (body parts seperated) Body?

I need info for a rpg game

[brazen merlin]

yes, when it finishes the execute chain, not when it finishes a time latent action - hence the tick

[peak solstice]

I want player to customize character's physical look, e.g. fat, muscle, hair color, etc..

any tutorials for Morph targets?

and importing blender to UE4 and use original skeletons for morphing

[unborn copper]

Hello. Are there any geodesic wizards here? I'm working with a geodesic dome model and trying to make the windows open/close along their specific axis. I'm finding it difficult because many of the windows are not aligned to any global axis, they are tilted in one direction or another away from all 3.

My current attempt is to figure out how to designate one edge of the 3 edges as an axis, either through programming or by manually putting a static mesh in and lining it up (programming would be better), and rotate around that, but I'm not finding functions to rotate around another object, it all seems to be based on the 3 axis.

[surreal peak]

I would say that's pretty normal

To do the AnimMontage in the BTT

I mean we use GAS internally

so the BTT just activates a GAS Ability, which has the Montage, and when the Montage ends the Ability ends, which then ends the BTT

Not too much different, just one step more

[tranquil abyss]

So Im spawning a sword on the death of one of my AI
All my weapons are children of this item, how can I spawn this actor or any of its children

[unreal quail]

I see thanks for the info!

[stiff chasm]

Stop movement immediately isn't doing anything

My character is falling and the does nothing

Instead I did a get velocity, multiplied it by 2, negated it and launch charecter, but they go upward and the other way a little bit

How do I make the character stop in place

[stiff chasm]

2nd hit

[faint pasture]

I would add a socket per window. The socket would be the frame of reference for the window

You can do it with empties in blender or do it painfully by hand in unreal

Or if you want it all to be one mesh, you can do it with bones. The bone rest pose would hold its reference frame. Basically opening a window would just be rolling two bones

[unborn copper]

https://tenor.com/view/patrick-star-spongebob-squarepants-wow-mindblown-gif-13169052

Great idea, thanks!