blueprint

[dark crow]

HUD is not supposed to be replicated

[trim matrix]

ok

[dark crow]

You can instead access everyone's HUD from the Array of PS with the Controller and update the value like that

[trim matrix]

oh

[dark crow]

One of the only times GetPlayerController with Index is useful in a networked situation, in the GameState

[trim matrix]

if I need the number on the HUD to move up in a counter like fashion. Do I bind it? because I saw a YT video that says it updates every tick and that's not good or something

[weak zealot]

Rather than my rotation going from 0 to 360, then looping back.. which is what i need, it's going into the negatives.. makes it quite hard to calculate

[dark crow]

Cause if you iterate all PS, you can access all PC like that

[trim matrix]

oh

ok

[feral ice]

Does anyone know how to get an instanced position? I want the instnaced mesh that gets rolled over to set its location to a lower value in the z axis. Sorry for my wack english im tired haha. But i just want the mesh to get a lower value so it looks like it got rick rolled over :D.

[gentle urchin]

Get instance transform

So from the cast -> get instance transform -> subtract your z and update it

Carefull not the mark renderstate dirty more than once per tick

Its an expensive operation, especially at volumes

[feral ice]

i see artheur told me to use and im still a bit confused at what it does

[gentle urchin]

Updates the rendered meshes

I suppose that means sending the new transform array to the gpu or smth

[feral ice]

ok but i do need that ticked if i want to change an instances location?

[gentle urchin]

If you want it to show, yes

But if you roll over several instances on a frame,

You only need want to mark it dirty once

[feral ice]

so if i do it each second it would update all the ones it had run over and set the new location on them all

[gentle urchin]

It will update their appearance yes. Their actual transforms will update regardless , not sure about their collision state

[feral ice]

hmm interesting. I would need it to update fast but maybe not as fast as i am doing right now

[gentle urchin]

The more instances you got in the hit component the worde it gets

If this is foliage im not sure how thats handled in that regard

If it automatically divides it at somr generic instance amount or if it just keeps piling on..

[feral ice]

ok

this is the setup atm but like they all get a large lower value

this is good but i wanna have more control do i need a value a little bit lower than 1

[gentle urchin]

You could lay them flat in the direction they got rolled over 😄

[feral ice]

hmm what do you mean?

[gentle urchin]

You can update their rotations

So they are like 80 degrees tilted in the direction they got rolled over

And perhaps scaled to .8 or smth

Idk, perhaps dumb idea

[feral ice]

yeah i see what you mean

[tranquil abyss]

So I have a little text widget that displays the name of the item the player is standing over/on

it works but the problem is

It will display the names over all the items of that class or parents untill I walk over all the item currently in the world

then it works properly

any idea how to make this only display over the single actor

before vs after walking over them

all of them*

Also tried this (not hooked up atm)

[sturdy herald]

@tawdry basalt Maked a mistake here.
The timeline playrate not fine yet becauseif the start Z value is negative and the find look at rot Z positive (or first pos 2nd negativ) then the difference will be not good. Resolved this with this macro. Simply checked if both of them are positive or negative, if yes then subtract the output from input if not, then add them (with this we will get 90 with 10,100 values and -40,50 values too).
https://blueprintue.com/blueprint/e_4w2-fc/

[dawn gazelle]

Set the display as hidden by default?

[tranquil abyss]

Then nothing shows at all

maybe this guy instead?

lol that makes it so everything but what im standing on shows

[tawdry surge]

I gotta make an asset randomizer for an in-game store today. i.e. Every so often the options displayed in the store widget change and allow the player to buy different things.
I was considering making one class for weapons and setting the mesh and stats from a data table or data asset.
Other method I'm considering is make each weapon a child class and just use get derived classes to populate a list of possible options and spawn them from there
Thoughts?

[maiden wadi]

@tranquil abyss HiddenInGame needs set to true by default for the component.

Also don't mess with the literal Visibility unless you really need to. Try to avoid it where possible because it's a replicated state. HiddenInGame achieves the same thing and is not a replicated property.

[tranquil abyss]

gotcha

[tranquil abyss]

Im not sure what you mean by hidden in game

[tranquil abyss]

like the visibility setting for the widget

[dawn gazelle]

If you have it set up like this, then you're only showing or hiding the component if the player overlaps and ends overlap. The "Hidden in Game" value should be set true on the component by default as both I and Authaer mentioned.

[maiden wadi]

This.

[tranquil abyss]

am I missing something

just to make sure im not crazy this was the original

[maiden wadi]

Click Widget, go to details, check HiddenInGame.

[tranquil abyss]

ohh

[maiden wadi]

That sets it's state to true by default. So it's invisible when you start playing. That makes it so you don't have to overlap it first to set it's hiddeningame to false on end overrlap before it actually hides.

[tranquil abyss]

the widget in the class its self

im dump

[maiden wadi]

You have three different visibility settings when messing with WidgetComponents. SceneComponent has Visibility and HiddenInGame, and the widget it's holding also has it's own ESlateVisibility settings that can hide the widget itself.

[tranquil abyss]

test

that was weird My message was getting blocked

?? im trying to upload a pic in the engine

weird

Anyways. It works

but a bug if I stand on 2 items it displays the same name for both

that wont happen very often I dont think but still a bug

[pseudo tendon]

Totally basic UE BP question - but how do I create folders in the Variables section? ("My Character" and "Components" seen here.)

[dawn gazelle]

Set their category

[maiden wadi]

WTB way to not have variables in folders. 😦 Passing components to widgets is annoying.

[vital aspen]

Does anyone have an idea for a build system. Something lay down foundations and so on.

Oh, and I'll be in the Lounge channel

[sturdy herald]

Calls category, click on it, u can write a new name, it will create a new category write something which already exist, it will put there, u can create subcategory with using | like this:
Components|Guns with this in components category will be a Guns subcategory. Dont use space, because it will create Components category with space. So dont write something like this: Components | Guns.

[hearty barn]

https://streamable.com/9x2vfr
is it possible to do what I am doing in the video in a simpler way without losing the effect I was hoping I could make a function where I could just pass in the rows I want to animate and how long of a delay but timelines can't be in functions so I'm stumped on making this easier without just making it open instantly

[spark steppe]

either make an event which takes the actor as parameter

or put them all in an array and iterate over it in the timeline update

[weak zealot]

I'm trying to compare a set of numbers based on my objects rotation, but my object rotation is super out of wack, i tried using a clamp axis so it'd go from 0-360 but it's making zero sense still

[maiden wadi]

<@&213101288538374145>

[weak zealot]

Hm?

Are videos not allowed?

[maiden wadi]

Wasn't for you.

[weak zealot]

Ah, whew.

[maiden wadi]

You'll get a warning and severely mocked before you get mods called on you most times in here. 😄

[weak zealot]

😆 sounds good

[maiden wadi]

Mod tag was for the discord nitro spammers.

[spark steppe]

your way to rotate the stuff is... not optimal

delay of 0.1 is 10fps

[weak zealot]

yeah, it's just so i could visualize the number easier

i'll remove it once i have this fixed

[spark steppe]

how do you rotate the wheel?

[hearty barn]

an event 🤔 hmmm I know how to make custom events but never made one with parameters damn let me try

[weak zealot]

Get components by tag > For each > cast to StaticMeshComponent > AddLocalRotation

[spark steppe]

thanks, i hate it

you should show the whole graph setup which is involved in that rotation stuff, as i can't yet twist my head around what you are doing

and i would use setRotation instead of addRotation, later might flip some axis which would lead to your result

[weak zealot]

😆

I'm not wise enough yet to even spot the problem lol, for sure though

[spark steppe]

also gambling is bad

https://tenor.com/view/mmmkay-mr-mackey-south-park-s20e1-member-berries-gif-20603930

[weak zealot]

Spoiler(ered) for gore /j

[spark steppe]

you are setting local/relative rotation, but you compare world rotation

don't do that

either one or the other, considering the use case you may use relative/local rotation everywhere

[weak zealot]

Ahh, 🤦‍♂️. Obvious oversight

[weary thorn]

so like, on this branch, i have the same functions copy pasted, and when its false it works, and when its true it says target variable has accessed none so does nothing and gives me an error

[weak zealot]

Set rotation? To what? A variable that increases with time? At a certain point it would pass 360 though, do i just set it back to 0 after that point?

[weary thorn]

what in the blueprint is going on

[spark steppe]

just fix the other issue first before you think of more

does it still happen if you compare against relative rotation?

[weak zealot]

I didn't know there was a getlocalrotation node, what's it called?

[hearty barn]

without seeing close menu my guess would be something is trying to access something you destroy after you do so maybe showing close menu will help me be clearer

[spark steppe]

get relative rotation probably

[tawdry surge]

https://discordapp.com/channels/187217643009212416/221798862938046464/940718746874556416
Anyone have an opinion, advice, anything?

[weary thorn]

i'll send it over now

[weak zealot]

I'm only seeing Get Relative Transform

[spark steppe]

well then take that and split the transform

for now

honestly i'm not sure if local rotation is relative rotation (but i guess it is)

[weary thorn]

here it si

[maiden wadi]

As a UI programmer, I vote DataAsset. Much more scalable. Much easier to modify and set up the data you want to display. Allows designers to change things as well with nothing but data input.

[hearty barn]

in the previous picture you were passing in a target variable but in this screenshot I don't see it being passed in?

[spark steppe]

he wasn't passing it

target is what the function/event is called on

[weary thorn]

for some reason it works no problem when the branch hits false

thats where im getting confused at

[hearty barn]

ah my bad yeah it's an event not a function and hmmm

is it possible the event is getting called more than once? maybe add an is valid?

[weak zealot]

Yup, still acting quite odd. Might be what you said though, adding instead of setting. The way it's acting currently, it can never reach 90 to 135

[weary thorn]

ok, so i have changed the names a bit to clear things up

[spark steppe]

are you setting the target reference correct on the button which has the name "Yes"

[weary thorn]

so have a look now

i think actually showing you guys this has made me realise my issue

[white bone]

I'm new to blueprints and UE in general, does anyone know any good tutorials for beginners on key press events that play animations on characters?

[weary thorn]

on the first image of the three i belive i have not casted to all of the buttons

[hearty barn]

that's usually what does it for me xD

[weary thorn]

just the initial one on the first index (0)

[hearty barn]

ah yep get child at 0 only does the 0 index if you have multiple

[white bone]

when i try doing a play animation it doesn't do anything when I try to press the button I set to for the event

[weary thorn]

yes my dude

i love how explaining things can sometimes help you see the issues

thanks for being there and asking questions about my issue!

[white bone]

Is it possible to set a key press event inside of a metahuman blueprint? Like if the metahuman is the playable character then is it possible to make an event that triggers one of the character's animations when a keyboard key is pressed?

I tried to set up the event in there but it doesn't give me the option

Like one of these action events; how do I use that?

[pseudo tendon]

Thanks! :)

[tawdry surge]

@maiden wadi Just to clarify, you'd do the child classes with a data asset over a data table and single item class?

[maiden wadi]

Single class with a data asset would be my preference.

[tawdry surge]

I'm confused.
How would that work for populating a store front and spawning the items?

[hearty barn]

@spark steppe well good news is this works but only on the last ones called so child 1 it works but not child 0 and so on so if there were 63 it would only work on the last one

[maiden wadi]

Are we talking 3D store or widgets? You mentioned meshes, but also widgets, so just clearing that up.

[tawdry surge]

It's a faux website like Amazon the player accesses to buy items that will then be air dropped into the world.
I need to be able to randomize which items are currently displayed on the website widget and use the choice to spawn the corresponding item

[spark steppe]

yea i might have sent you on a goose chase by accident

guess the timeline which gets evaluated is the same for all

but i'm not 100% sure on this

[hearty barn]

yeah i think your right I'd need a separate timeline for each group of objects I wish I could like instance timelines so have a parent type of timeline and then instance one for each loop

[spark steppe]

you had two timelines before because the 2nd row should run with a delay?

[maiden wadi]

Personally, my items are all tagged with gameplay tags. So I would just have a tag container. Maybe a few depending on item types. Would only need to randomize those. 3D actor or widget can pull up whatever else from static data to display. At most you might have to map the tags to prices or other data maybe. I suppose you could do the same thing with softclass refs to your items.

[hearty barn]

yeah each row essentially does the exact same thing (copy pasted timelines) but with offsets for delay

[grand oasis]

Hello, how would I go about getting a players relation to spot in a spline maybe this picture helps? :

[mild crystal]

can someone give me a idea to calculate the distance between 2 objects pls. I want to do one thing and need help. When i press the punch button i wanna to move the character close to the point that he gonna hit. Is it possible?

[grand oasis]

Vector 3 distance

[mild crystal]

thx

[main lake]

Why does this print decimal value instead of 1, 2, 3, 4 ....

[tawdry surge]

Truncate it before you print it

[main lake]

it keeps printing 0 multiple times

[tawdry surge]

It'll print 0 till the value is 1.0 or above

[grand oasis]

What does it print if the time node is plugged directly

[main lake]

it prints decimal values

[grand oasis]

I think it's a constant

[mild crystal]

thx, i made this

[main lake]

and yeah after a bit of time it goes above 1

[mild crystal]

but now i want to move characther to the cilinder location. how do i do that?

[main lake]

but I don't know how to use the Curve I made for my timer still. Like I have my max value on the curve being at 900 sec and its value is 23 (11PM).
And at 300 sec (6AM) I need it to go faster so I don't know how to work with those values

[tawdry surge]

@maiden wadiDon't tags just maintain a data table and check against it?

[hearty barn]

@spark steppe well I sorta found a work around using the event style but just in a node grouping copy and pasting it seems to be functioning and it's not too bad manually connecting them to the pins at least

[mild crystal]

how do i move my character to a location?

[trim matrix]

heya, quick question is there any way I can replay a BP's functions? like after my ball goes across the goal I want it to replay the same delay into randomly thrown movement.

what I have now is when it goes across the goal it sets off a custom event to be set back at it's original location with set actor location

[grand oasis]

For anyone wanting to know the location on a spline closest to point; Tags closest to Player, Spline, Rotate, look at

I couldn't find it on google

[tranquil abyss]

What is the blueprint to completely disable a Blueprint widget

compenent

[main lake]

Is it possible to have a switch case on the Box Collisions I dropped in the world and use "Get All Actors of Class" and I want to compare the output array with some tags and depending the tag on the box collision i want to execute some different code

[dawn gazelle]

Can you explain what it is you need to go faster?
A curve is just like any graph you've probably ever worked with in math.... You input a value for X, you get an output of Y. There's no real "faster" involved with reading a value out of a graph.

[dawn gazelle]

I'd also be wary of doing something like this.... You could always make your own trigger actor and program in a bit of logic into it so it can handle things by itself.

[main lake]

I need a reference to those triggers in the gamemode

[tranquil abyss]

So I have this logic to show the name of weapon when the player is standing over it, It works the problem is when I hold the weapon in my hand it shows the name still, I added the cast to and the branch to not show it, That works only issue is the widget is still overriding the othe widgets that im standing over.

if I swing it resets and the color displays correctly

Hope this makes sense

[dawn gazelle]

You can have them report themselves into the game mode, but not sure why you would necessarily need to have them in the game mode.

[tranquil abyss]

and also it sometime still shows the sword in my hands name

(Equipped weapon )

[main lake]

how ?

[dawn gazelle]

I think you need to separate out your logic a bit better...
OnActorBeginOverlap > If Character's Equipped Weapon == self > FALSE > Set Hidden if "Overlapped Actors" doesn't contain player--- hard to understand.
vs.
If Character's equipped weapon == self > set hidden true (as I imagine the name should never display if equipped and it happens to end an overlap, but overlaps with your character again).

You may also want to call a function that sets it hidden when it gets equipped as the OnOverlapEnd event may not get called when you attach it to your player to try and set it hidden.

[tranquil abyss]

🧠

ill need to make a function in the player ig

when the item get set as equipped

[dawn gazelle]

On BeginPlay of the actors. You can call GetGameMode cast to your game mode, add themselves to an array, or call functions in the game mode to do whatever Again, doesn't seem like it would normally be something you really need in the game mode directly. What are these triggers supposed to do?

[main lake]

I need to enable and disable them at certain time and as it's a multiplayer game I need to do that in the Game Mode

[main lake]

could you go dm ?

[dawn gazelle]

Actors can maintain themselves based on events - all gameplay logic does not need to be in the game mode for multiplayer. It can actually be much more cumbersome to deal with if you have your game mode handling things that it doesn't need to. If you have a manager that handles time within your game mode, that's fine.... Have it call an event dispatcher when something needs to happen, and create your own trigger actors that bind to it on their begin play... Further to this, in your game state create a function or event that takes a Name or gameplaytag as input that you can then call from the triggers when they are triggered - feed in a tag or gameplay tag that you set on the triggers when they are capable of being triggered. In the gamestate, handle the event, and switch on name or gameplay tag and then you can do whatever you need to do, and if anything needs to be replicated to players you're in a decent spot to do so as well.

So now, you just need to place your trigger actors, they automatically bind to the time when placed so they can be enabled and disabled, and when enabled and triggered they'll pass on the event to the game state to handle whatever needs to handle, and perhaps notify players that the thing was triggered.

And sorry, I don't like to work in DMs.. If you have questions, your best bet is to ask them here.

[grand oasis]

What is Ue4's equivalent to Slerp?

I want to emulate Lag like the spring arm

Never mind it's Vinterp

[main lake]

I still have the problem with my timer, it's still not accurant and don't know how to solve that

[dawn gazelle]

What's the inaccuracy currently?

[main lake]

my day has to be exactly 10 min (so from 6 AM to 11 PM it has to be 10 IRL min) and the night exactly 5 IRL min (from 11PM to 6 AM) and my timer is at 10 min when it's 10:50 PM instead of 11 PM and 5 min when it's 6:40 AM instead of 6 AM

like the 10 and 5 min are variables and from that I calculate a ratio to use in the SetTimerByEvent

[trim matrix]

How come my score doesn't count up?

it stays at 1 every time

it doesn't count up

[main lake]

show where you call those events

[main lake]

You add 0 to 1 all time that's why

[trim matrix]

oooooh

how do I keep the score then?

I should get rid of that

[main lake]

remove the argument from the event

[trim matrix]

right?

ok

[main lake]

and just drag your score variable and drag it above the + 1 (where you have the "Add Score" thing)

[trim matrix]

it worked

thank you

[dawn gazelle]

How are you doing the clock?

ie. What's keeping track of the time right now?

[chrome nymph]

is there a way to pass parameters to events?

i have a Parent who can collect many orbs.
the orbs can decide to leave the parent

the parent therefore needs to know which orb has left

the parent stores an array of orbs, and the orbs have a parent property to know who its currently attached to.

is there a way to get the orb to inform its parent that hey i left?

[dawn gazelle]

Sure, on your event add an input. You can set the type of variable and what have you. In your case, make an event on the parent, and the orb can then call the event on their parent and feed in a reference to themselves.

[chrome nymph]

or better yet - can i make the Orb's Anchor property be a publisher? so whenever the anchor property changes - it always invokes a stream ala ReactiveX

[weak zealot]

For some reason my get arrays aren't updating, always staying at the same value.. are they only being ran once? (Connected to a branch at the end)

[chrome nymph]

thanks! is it possible to do this instead?

makes for a unidirectional flow

[weak zealot]

Hmm?

[chrome nymph]

^

[dawn gazelle]

Like you want an event when the value changes? There's nothing really like that...If you're setting the value, then you can also call whatever you need to from there usually. If you wanted to use an event dispatcher, that's an option, but then you have to have your parent bind before calling it.

[chrome nymph]

(swift syntax, apologies)

struct Parent {
  var children: Array<Child>
  var subscribers: Set<AnyCancellable>

  func attachChild(_ child: Child) {
    children.append(child)
    child.anchor = self
    child.$anchor
      .sink {
          if let newValue = $0, newValue != self {
            children.remove(child)
          } else if newValue == nil {
            children.remove(child)
          }
       }
        .store(in: &subscribers)
  }
}

struct Child {
  var anchor: CurrentValueSubject<Parent?>
}

$anchor refers to the stream of the child's current value.

sink = setup a subscription to the stream

store = a way to keep the subscription pointer around so that it doesnt get deallocated (swift uses reference counting)

this code says - parent observes child's anchor property - if it changes and its no longer the parent, then the parent says ok i update my array to remove the child.

(i have never tried C++ yet so im not sure if this is even possible - but it seems like there is RXCPP so there might be some notion of reactive programming)

[dawn gazelle]

I think event dispatcher is what would be similar, but it doesn't automatically broadcast - you have to call them whenever you want them to fire so you could have a setter function set up that you ensure you use and in that function you set the value of the variable and call the event dispatcher.... But then the issue is again you need to bind and unbind from the dispatcher as well which would need to be handled within the object receiving the event before the event is called. You could maybe manage something like that in C++, but nothing like that in blueprints.

[chrome nymph]

hmm

what would be the simplest way to handle this in blueprints?

[dawn gazelle]

Well your orbs know your parent already.... So call function on parent prior to setting parent to None.

[chrome nymph]

i see

the code above is actually a bad example - usually the child shouldnt know its Parent - should be a protocol (aka interface in C++?)

to remove cyclic dependencies

but i digress haha probably trying to over engineer blueprints here

[dawn gazelle]

Well, it is good to have decoupled code.... I was thinking about an interface as well, just in case you wanted to have different classes interacting with your orbs.

[chrome nymph]

aye

[chrome nymph]

oke for a start i will just go with this - thank you!

hard to resist "this is bad code" instinct heh

also - is this the wrong way to use generics in macros?

was trying to make a generic Find Nearest Actor function

seems to not return the value at all

... am i overreaching by diving into generics straight away :X

[hollow inlet]

what is it ticking on?

[chrome nymph]

event tick

[hollow inlet]

i see, but what class is that event tick on

[chrome nymph]

i have 3 classes

BP_NPC (contains OrbCollector component)
BP_OrbCollector (a scene component)
BP_Orb

the event ticks on BP_OrbCollector

[hollow inlet]

oh the function also.. sorry, there's a lot there, I don't see it off hand

[chrome nymph]

BP_OrbCollector invokes Find Nearest Actor in its event tick

[hollow inlet]

well, you see the log?

you've probably got a pin set wrong somewhere

[dapper perch]

does anyone know why my montage is playing indefinately? figured this is more of a blueprint question

nevermind im dumb, i was calling the montage again in my animation notify state

copy pasta errors are fun

[wintry gazelle]

Is it not possible to make a bp function's return type be a set?

[tawdry surge]

Love pasta errors

[dawn gazelle]

?

[dapper perch]

they are the best

[wintry gazelle]

When changing the variable type it only allows me to change it to either a single or array. both set and map are greyed out

[dawn gazelle]

Change the variable type first (perhaps it's on boolean?)

[chrome nymph]

ah yes you're right

what is the default value of a local float in a macro

[wintry gazelle]

Ohh my variable was a struct. I'm guessing structs can't be sets

[chrome nymph]

is it always 0?

is there such a thing as an optional local float in a macro?

i guess i could just simulate it with a local boolean

works like a charm now - thank you all

[zealous moth]

@wintry gazelle you can make and set or set members in struct

[chrome nymph]

what nodes can i use to conditionally provide a vector?

[weak zealot]

Am i doing something wrong here? My object keeps spasming out once it reaches a certain rotation

[chrome nymph]

do i need to have two MoveTo branches that accept different parameters?

is there a better way to do this - cant seem to figure out how to get Flow control to do this

ah

select vector

[tawdry surge]

@weak zealot depends if you want x and z to be unchanged or set to 0 like you're doing

[weak zealot]

set to 0 is what i'm aiming for, yup

[tawdry surge]

Oh you're pry hitting gimbal lock

[dawn gazelle]

Select node

[weak zealot]

I'm only rotating around the y axis

[weak zealot]

Gimble lock? It starts spasming.. nearly stuck in place

[chrome nymph]

is this a blueprint bug?

i set it to select if not null - but the debugger complains im trying to access a null value

or does select demand the data eagerly

[dawn gazelle]

Selects still try to grab the appropriate values.

[chrome nymph]

ahh

i thought it was lazy

is there a Lazy Select node equivalent?

[tawdry surge]

Yeah that's gimble lock. it has to do with how it calculates the rotation. I'm blanking on how to fix it without a quaternion

[chrome nymph]

like a switch / pattern matching operation

[dawn gazelle]

Solution is just to use an "IsValid" node

[chrome nymph]

would have to end up with two MoveTo operations heh

oh well

thanks!

[weak zealot]

Hmm. Any resources you could link me to? I haven't heard of this

[chrome nymph]

btw is there an easy way to duplicate a node in bp editor

like alt left click drag in viewport

[haughty temple]

Control w with node selected

[chrome nymph]

hmm maybe only on windows

mac doesnt work for that

[haughty temple]

Ahh yea not sure about mac can mac control c then control v

[chrome nymph]

yea

i should probably just switch to windows for UE

[frozen ledge]

😦 bruh moment

[chrome nymph]

seems to be far better supportedf

[frozen ledge]

i'm casting a player character which is taken in as a parameter and yet it's not recognizing it as one lol

[haughty temple]

The execution pin needs used

[tawdry surge]

@weak zealot https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=KqbqZ3IY1II&feature=youtu.be

[frozen ledge]

tyty

[haughty temple]

Or convert to pure cast with right click if you know itll validate

[frozen ledge]

i should really experiment before asking lol

i always figure it out after i ask the question lmao

like literally the second after

[haughty temple]

XD

[chrome nymph]

oh wow you can control the branch of nodes by clicking along its node

... my ocd is satisfied

there has to be a better way right... some sort of tool to auto-format blueprints?

[haughty temple]

They have plugins like electric nodes or whatever but reroute nodes works just more work can highlight 2 nodes and align them as well so wire is straight

[true valve]

I have a 5mb csv file loaded into a data-table. Instead of showing all in a single scrolbox, I want to use pagination.

[chrome nymph]

i see

btw - how does the Ai Move To command work?

why does it not need to be ticked on?

how can i create functions that can tap into Event Tick, but without having to explicitly connect to it?

timers arent ideal for movement because it gets affected by varying tick rate, so what's a better alternative?

and is there a way to make an optional parameter e.g. vector in a blueprint?

[tawdry surge]

Why would you want it separate from tick? If the frame rate drops and movement doesn't then the lag will be more noticeable

[chrome nymph]

i dont want it to be separate from tick - but i want to have the ergonomics of calling MoveTo() from beginPlay / or anywhere else

without having to connect Event Tick

e.g.

i have to do this

instead of saying - please move to location X. go hook up to a event tick urself

AI Move To has this ability

it simply accepts a callback then hooks into event tick itself

its a lot more ergonomic to use than having to create event ticks everywhere

basically - i wanna create my own MoveTo function with the ergonomics of AI Move To

[tawdry surge]

Ok, I don't know if you can do that in BP
BP functions don't really handle time logic

You can't just use the ai node?

[chrome nymph]

its an orb with only a scene component

i think ai nodes need to have movement component?

[tawdry surge]

Nah has to have an ai controller tho

[chrome nymph]

ah so i guess they probably use the controller to handle that logic

and their controller hooks into event tick then

[tawdry surge]

Probably since inputs are on tick

[chrome nymph]

can this be done?

[tawdry surge]

Idk, never tried..
Not too much is impossible tho

Might be more work than it's worth tho

[chrome nymph]

strange. thought these would be really fundamental ergonomic nodes

is optional not really a thing in c++?

[tawdry surge]

I mean they gave you tick as an option..
You could probably dig into it and figure something out, but I'm not really sure why bother.
Not like it'll save performance or be any faster

[chrome nymph]

hmm

[elder ruin]

I'm working on a new project after some time away from using Unreal, so hoping someone can give me a little nudge in the right direction. I'm working on a project where my Twitch chat can have a little character that will take part in the game (think like a meeple in terms of complexity). The character will have about 5 unique variables bound to it. Think it'd be best to use a pawn for this? Or make a master BP with something else and just create children off it?

Actually now that I've said that out loud I should just make an actor and not be dense.

[chrome nymph]

why does SpawnActor not respect the scale of my actor's component?

it seems to set the scale to 1 instead of keep it at 0.25

[brazen pike]

well you may notice the "scale" input in the make transform

[chrome nymph]

yes - how do i get it to respect its original scale defined in the BP?

[brazen pike]

Just set the transform settings to be as you want

[elder ruin]

So far as I know, you can either set it manually to .25 ahead of time, or if you're wanting to be able to change it on the fly you'll need to cast to and set the value before spawn using whatever flavour method you're keen on.

[chrome nymph]

nvm i think the solution was to create another scene

and make the sphere a child of the scene rather than the root

[chrome nymph]

is there a node that allows me to change a float from
0...1 -> 1...0 alternating - but accepts an ever increasing value e.g. tick seconds.

or do i need to manually create a function for this

e.g
0.5 = 0.5, 1.5 = 0.5, 1.3 = 0.7

oh

timeline

[lofty ravine]

hey anyone know how i can trigger a combo-box on ue4 to play audio would be a big help

[dawn gazelle]

Like, when you open the combo box?

[lofty ravine]

yeah like depending on the selected option it plays a different song

[sweet terrace]

Is there a way to prevent a pawn pushing another pawn without turning off collision?

[dawn gazelle]

Either of these will work... You'd need to use some concurrency settings if you want them to not play overtop of one another.

[lofty ravine]

how can i add concurrency settings

[dawn gazelle]

Hit the little triangle on the Play Sound 2D node and there'll be a spot to feed in a concurrency object. You'll have to create a concurrency class in your content browser.

[lofty ravine]

ahhh ok thanks!

[lofty ravine]

ok i still hear two musics playing at the same time

nvm i got the issue thanks for the help i met a deadline thank you so much

[raven hollow]

does anyone know how to fix this?
#ue4-general message

[native linden]

hey so, i need to have a list where each item on the list casts an event when selected, and i need to scroll through them one at a time. how would i do that?

[maiden wadi]

Tags are just a comparison data type. Same as an FName or Integer or Strings. It's no different than older games using Integers or Strings. If you've messed around cheating older games, you often spawn items by their integer ID. It just looks that item's data up using that key. So if that's what you mean by that, then yean. GameplayTags just have the benefit of both being an integer, and named, and tiered. In the end it doesn't matter what you're using for a key. If you're not organizing your game items into tables or data assets against a lookup key in some way, you're going to have a really bad time managing them, and specially creating UI for them.

[remote obsidian]

Hi all, is there a way to apply material changes on a staticMeshActor back to the StaticMesh Asset in editor?

[maiden wadi]

Probably some form of editor widget could do it.

[remote obsidian]

Do you know where I might find a solution online / what to search for?
I've done some blueprint based plugins but no C++ yet so I probably won't be able to create the solution myself at this time

[maiden wadi]

No idea. I don't normally do editor level stuff.

[thorny rover]

Hi! Does anyone know how to make parent class blueprint receive overlap events that happen with its child blueprint components?
i have houses with various sizes / shapes, doors in random places so i made them a parent class (from static mesh actor) that has no components in order to classify them all as houses (initially for another reason). But now i need to check if my pawn enters the house. But the overlap events do not reach the parent blueprint because it has no components to overlap. I enabled overlap events but nothing happens because it only has an empty static mesh component.

I think opening up every child blueprint and getting overlap events to trigger there is kind of stupid / repetitive last way option (i have bunch of houses), maybe there is a better way to access from the parent? I can access child actor components in beginplay and display their names (image) but i can not track their component overlap events..
Any ideas?

[remote obsidian]

I've found a fiddly but usable method, with printing out the replaced material name alongside the default mesh material slot name

[mild crystal]

How can i move a actor to a location? and doing a animation while not there

[mental trellis]

That's probably what you'll have to do, yes.

[earnest flax]

hey guys, could I ask how do I make a static mesh from actor rotate forever (like helicopter blades for example)? Thanks for help

[mild crystal]

can someone help me pls

[timber knoll]

current would be current actor location, set the actor location to the return value of the interp

[mild crystal]

thx

i made this but i wanna move a actor when its true.

but idk how

[timber knoll]

I'm not sure if you can inherit the parents overlap... But you could create a function/event in your parent and have that pass all the data

then you can implement it in your child blueprints however you like

[timber knoll]

First of all, why would you want to move a characters mesh?

that's going to break all the collision etc

Instead of the branch, just save the value as a boolean and branch on event tick with what I've shown above

[mild crystal]

no i dont want move the mesh, just made that that to get a condition, but ok

doing that

[timber knoll]

#graphics

These docs are most likely just decals btw, disabling depth test only works for translucent for obvious reasons (solid objects always render closest)

[mild crystal]

like this

?

[idle pelican]

I'll move question to right channel.

[timber knoll]

yes and that way you know when to move the character in your event tick

[mild crystal]

so now i need to do what you made up there?

and now how do i move to a location?

my character*

how do i move a character to a location?

[chrome nymph]

btw thanks for all the help everyone. just completed this level 🙂

[native linden]

how do i get my current controlled pawns transform as a variable?

[odd ember]

get controlled pawn > get actor transform?

[native linden]

ah

thanks :)

and then plugging that in to "set" will set it when the set is run?

[knotty bane]

@native linden what do you mean with "set"? use SetActorTransform node for that. There is also Get|SetActorLocation if it's the only thing you'd like to change

has your pawn a movementComponent attached? then you would do this differently

[native linden]

it works :)

[cosmic loom]

Hello, I have a problem, I previously made a Character Customization Screen, it changes the skeletal mesh it works completely fine, but when I click play (Which redirects to loading a level), the character class has the default skeletal mesh

[crude eagle]

Hey quick question. I have a Editor Utility Widget that I would like to call some function on. But I would like to call them from a plain UObject to keep my architecture clean. I cannot do that because when the function is declared in a Editor Utility Widget it is then automatically EFunctionFlags FUNC_EditorOnly. Any way to get rid of this flag on a UFUNCTION? Or to make the UObject also be editor only?

[magic parcel]

Ohla!!!

I have seen a few tutorials on "chest opening", but in the interest of not creating the same problem as I did last time I came here... i tried to do it on my own 😛

interestingly.... I got some results!

Also, interestingly, I have some results that do not make sense

I have a BP, that has a collision box, when you enter the box is sets "isUsable" to true (bool)

on end over overlap, it sets the bool to false

I have a print string to show that either of those events are happening, and they are

what is wrong with the top part....

its not firing either string

[maiden wadi]

@magic parcelYou've never enabled Input.

[magic parcel]

@maiden wadi , how would I do that?

[maiden wadi]

You call it on the player's local controller.

[magic parcel]

call, enable input ?

hm..

[maiden wadi]

Yeah. And pass the local controller in.

[magic parcel]

before, or after the branch?

[maiden wadi]

Before you ever press E

E will not run without input enabled.

[magic parcel]

interesting

it his because its not on the player controller?

(first time doing something like this)

[tawdry surge]

Because actors shouldn't take input

[magic parcel]

ah

so my thought was to make this on a "chest" type of BP

[tawdry surge]

Pawn or character can by default

[magic parcel]

so that any object i put before/below would work with it

is that a wrong method?

[tawdry surge]

Use an interaction interface and have that tell the chest to open

[magic parcel]

hm...

so the main "coder" of the project does that (i am the artist learning to code)

[tawdry surge]

Look up blueprint interface

[magic parcel]

but i didnt see how I would hook into that

he has the inferface created and uses it for weapon pickup

[maiden wadi]

Actors can take input. It's actually how the system was designed to be used.

[mental trellis]

Basically the button press will only work when there's something controlling it. You don't control the box. So you have to interact with the box external from the thing you do control.

[maiden wadi]

But in this particular case, traces and an interface are much better.

[magic parcel]

@mental trellis makes sense

so I should try to use this off of the event interact?

[maiden wadi]

A good example is players weapons. It's much cleaner to add ownership to the weapon and enable input in it, and put the fire event in the weapon then go passing shit through multiple classes just to call fire.

[mental trellis]

Yeah. You want to add an interface Interactable or Useable. Implement it on the box. Then on your player controller or pawn/character, add a "use" or "interact" trigger, which does a ray trace out from the camera (or wherever appropriate.) If it hits something, check if it's "usable" or "interactable" and then call the "use" or "interact" method.

[magic parcel]

hm...

okay, I will have a go at it

i want to avoid trace

i hate when I am in PUBG or other games where I need to look at the object

instead of being able to focus on the area in front of me. So, that is why I am going with overlap

so i can keep looking at the area I need to focus, but still pick up the object if I desire to

[mental trellis]

Check the way Dying Light 2 does it.

[tawdry surge]

You can sphere trace around the character so it doesn't matter which way your looking

[magic parcel]

@tawdry surge i saw that method too

[mental trellis]

It basically checks every item on screen within grabbing distance and interacts with the one closest to the centre.

[magic parcel]

which is interesting

but then how do you pick up the item you want if there are 50 of them 😛

[tawdry surge]

Multi trace and a for loop

[magic parcel]

@mental trellis that is intersting

so, if I understand this correctly

[mental trellis]

Fucking hell my typing is terrible today.

[magic parcel]

i call the event Interact

to the branch

then from the branch to whatever I need done

in the interact, i put the bind for the button input (e) in this case

[mental trellis]

I would do a sphere multitrace based on your camera's location, check what's got the smallest angle to your camera's view rotation and interact with that.

[magic parcel]

btw, seriously, i appreciate your help on this. All of you. So inviting and welcoming! makes me want to learn more code 😛

[vagrant flicker]

Heya. Is there any way of just detaching an item from hand and leaving item to drop on the floor using physics? I am casting line trace to find the floor now and detaching the object if floor is founded but it's ugly and item is teleporting on ground :D

[mental trellis]

(and avoid angles over, say, 60 degrees)

[vagrant flicker]

I thought there would be an easier way of just releasing the object

[mental trellis]

Moonrider: spawn another actor and move the component to it

[vagrant flicker]

But I'll have 2 actors that way

[tawdry surge]

@vagrant flicker If you enable physics on the item it'll just fall

[icy dragon]

Assuming it's third person, swap the object with an actor with the same mesh, with physics simulation enabled, ignoring character collisions.

[magic parcel]

just enable physics, easiest way 😛

[mental trellis]

@vagrant flicker Actors tend to represent a single unit, a person, an object, an idea (oh the imagination!)

[magic parcel]

and set character NOT to collide

cause if you enable physics and the character and it overlap, its going to fly

or make your character fly

lol... that is always fun when that happens

[icy dragon]

Actually it's anything that can be placed on the map.

[mental trellis]

Well, technically, you can add a component without an actor. It will just crash the engine in most cases 😄

[icy dragon]

Actors are inherited from UObject, and the latter can't be placed on the map/level.

[vagrant flicker]

Thanks guys, I'll give it a shot

[magic parcel]

so, before I go fucking up my entire player controller

should this trace be done on the player controller?

correct?

that is what it sounded like

[mental trellis]

Yeah.

[magic parcel]

k, here we go! (cue mario sound)

[tawdry surge]

I usually do it from the character since it's what I want as the starting point

[keen hedge]

Hi, I have two actors, one is added to the other via child actor component and it's root component is a static mesh. Now, I'm setting the mesh for the child actor's static mesh component via the construction script of the parent actor. And I can see the mesh in the editor just fine, but in the viewport of the parent actor there's no child actor mesh visible... Is there a way to see stuff in the viewport that's set/added/spawned via construction script?

[tawdry surge]

Controller may or may not be at the pawn location

[magic parcel]

so not the controller, but the player character ?

[mental trellis]

@keen hedge a drawback of the child actor components is that the actual child actor isn't available in construction scripts of the parent

@magic parcel it's up to you, either is good, depends on your code.

[tawdry surge]

Just do it wherever the weapon interface is at so you can piggy back off that

[magic parcel]

k

thanks 🙂

ill give it a go and see how it works

I got cars to work last night, so.... why couldnt I get this work tonight 🙂

[tawdry surge]

This is easier than physics for sure

[hexed cloak]

How do I get the value after the decimal on a float? 13.25, how would I get just the .25?

[icy dragon]

Subtract it with the truncated number of itself

[tawdry surge]

Modulo

Or wrap

[thorny rover]

I believe you misunderstood. My issue is that the parent receives no overlap, parent has no components. Children receive the overlaps but i want to write the logic inside the parent. So i want children to somehow tell the parent "hey, someone entered", but i have bunch of children and i don't want to write same logic to every child :/

[tawdry surge]

Actor overlap doesn't work

Should fire if any child component is overlapped as well

[hexed cloak]

Thank you ❤️

My little analog clock works now lol

[thorny rover]

I tried asking for overlap event from parent but nothing happens

[chilly geyser]

Nevermind got it

[thorny rover]

OnActorBeginOverlap (StaticMeshComponent) inside the parent, created a simple print function and nothing happens. In beginplay everything prints and i can access child components from specific child. Generate overlap events is turned on, and collison is overlapall, StaticMesh is empty, since children inherit it anyway

[tawdry surge]

No. Not the component one. The default on actor begin overlap. For the whole actor

[thorny rover]

oh i never really used that one

[sterile moss]

Hello everyone, quick question, does anyone know of an alternative to Pawn sensing for a player looking at a pawn?

[left token]

Hi, I'm implementing a video playback system in a widget, so far I get everything working as I like.
The only issue is that the media texture is not initialized when I construct the widget for the first time. I set the image size by getting the resolution of media texture.
After the initial launching of the widget, the texture size is set properly as it can now read the media texture properties.
How can I initialize the media texture before the widget asks for the resolution?

[thorny rover]

i called a print function for it and seems like nothing happened. You meant this, right? technically it should call the event when overlapping the child of that blueprint as well, right?

[tawdry surge]

It should. That's odd

[thorny rover]

i had to walk around a bit, seems to work now

thanks!

[mild crystal]

so i made this, and now on true i want to move the character to a location. How do i do that?

[chilly geyser]

does anyone know how this node works?

[odd ember]

I'm pretty sure it says on the tin

[chilly geyser]

tin?

[odd ember]

it says what it does pretty clearly

[chilly geyser]

I cant seem to get it to work

I actually have that set to any tags match

[chilly geyser]

^

[odd ember]

I guess you don't have any actors with that tag then?

[chilly geyser]

I have 9 actors that match that tag

[odd ember]

are they of the type you have supplied?

are they spawned at at the time you are making the query?

[chilly geyser]

yes from dropdown so i couldnt of got the wrong type

they are spawned before

pretty sure

[odd ember]

I mean the dropdown doesn't mean that you can't pick a type that doesn't have the tag

[chilly geyser]

event construct sets the tags for my blueprints
let me check again

[odd ember]

maybe that's the issue? that the tags aren't set?

[chilly geyser]

get all actors of class with tag works, so i dont think its the tags

[chilly geyser]

its a bit more complicated on how I set the tags so im not sure if it will confuse if I post it

[chilly geyser]

switch on enum then this

[pastel rivet]

Is there any method to get a custom events name?

In BP

[odd ember]

nope

[fierce stump]

This is gonna take a fair bit to work out

Ideally I want the HUD widget removed when the player hits 0 health, and then have the Game Over Widget replace it

[chilly geyser]

I think the node just doesn't work

[sharp rapids]

I assume you would need to add the 'You Died' widget to viewport for it to be visible

[fierce stump]

Figured it out, forgot to make it valid as well

[zealous moth]

If a UFunction is set to blueprint callable, can it still be called through c++?

[tawdry surge]

Yes

[zealous moth]

hm odd, someone reported it couldn't be, thank you

[fervent temple]

is that inefficient

[tawdry surge]

You can't reference anything from BP in C++.

[fervent temple]

the node mana regen is done in cpp

[weak zealot]

How can i view my objects rotational gimble? I'm trying to get around gimble lock

[fervent temple]

yeah but u can do it the other way around

in my project i use helper classes just for bp functions that are slow

[tawdry surge]

^

[zealous moth]

Why not a timer instead of tick?

[zealous moth]

what does that mean? :x

[icy dragon]

Anything done in BP can't be referenced back to C++

[fervent temple]

thats the way id do it. cuz pure c++ is just a waste. BPs are really good for ez stuff. unreal is cool cuz a good workflow involves using both

[fervent temple]

if u had a variable called Health in ur bp, you could not access that from any c++ class

[zealous moth]

ok, what about a plugin in c++? that should be referenceable in c++ no?

[icy dragon]

pure C++ is just a waste

[fervent temple]

haven't done that but yeah probably?

[icy dragon]

C++ referencing to C++ is possible.
C++ referencing to BP is possible.
BP referencing to C++ is NOT possible.

[zealous moth]

you mean C++ ^?

[fervent temple]

yeah he meansthat

[zealous moth]

but yeah i get it

[icy dragon]

Sike, I ninja'd you.

[zealous moth]

oh no!

[fervent temple]

C++ to C++ u have to make the class u want to reference public. its good practice to only create one way dependencies

[zealous moth]

oh... maybe i didn't make it public

    UFUNCTION(BlueprintCallable, Category = "AAA")
        void ToggleTraceCheck(bool CanTraceInput);```

since i didn't say public, it's inherently private, right?

oh wow i am in the wrong channel... my bad

[runic phoenix]

Hello blueprinters, I'd like to create a system where players can send bug reports in-game. Ideally, I'd send a bunch of data and their feedback to a google sheets document. Any ideas how I would go about doing this?

[icy dragon]

If you know C++ and built the engine from source, you can modify Crash Report Client to send bug reports to you.

[muted ember]

Hello, I would like to make a battle pass system but I don't really know how to go about it. In particular, I want to give people the possibility to see the time remaining before the end of the season in real time (like on Brawl Stars)

[torpid hound]

Lose the tick. Trigger the delay on BeginPlay and then loop the Set back into the delay. That way you're only running blueprints when you need, rather than every tick

[icy dragon]

You would do the comparison entirely in server side.

[muted ember]

?

[high sapphire]

I'm working on a saving/loading system in Blueprints, I've got it properly saving/loading player xyz and the level the player is on. However, I can't seem to get it to properly save/load the camera's rotation.
Bottom is the camera's rotation when I save, top is the camera's rotation when I load that save.

[icy dragon]

Usually games don't bother with this, but what you're looking for is Control Rotation instead.

[high sapphire]

Would that be off of the character, or off of the camera manager?
Looks like I found it, but just to confirm - Get Player Character, Cast to, Get Control Rotation?

[tawdry surge]

I don't think you have to cast for that

[high sapphire]

Hm.. Looks like it's still not working on my end. Maybe I'm doing it wrong?

Here's how I have it set up for saving

And for loading

[odd ember]

99% of the time it's the setup

[main lake]

A variable named "Time" and using SetTimerByEvent

[vital aspen]

Has anyone here worked with datatables. I need to loop threw all records. and return only the ones that have recipes. and then display the Name and Icon for that recipe.

it's just I'm using 2 for each loops and I want to do this with just 1 loop

[odd ember]

how would you expect to do it with 1 loop?

you have two separate arrays

[vital aspen]

just 1 array for the recipes. and I' using the data table to get the records for each item

that has a recipe.

[odd ember]

the array of records is also an array

so you have: array of records > array of recipes

so you need two loops for that

[vital aspen]

Ok, this is how I start it

[odd ember]

yep

looks correct

[vital aspen]

ok, this is the 2nd loop and ends the 2nd loop, I think

[odd ember]

so there's another data table?

[vital aspen]

The node I have selected is erroring out

no, just 1

[odd ember]

in the second screenshot you're getting a different struct

which would imply a different data table

which is probably why you're getting an error?

[vital aspen]

Ok, After the 1 loops it gets all the records 1 at the time. Then this happens

This checks to see if it has recipes, If Yes. then it starts another loop to get the recipes and then displays the results. Your saying some thing it wrong here

This part loops threw the recipes.

[high sapphire]

Looking up the official documentation on that node, I found this. Since my project is in Third Person, could this be part of why it isn't saving/loading properly?

[vital aspen]

My ideas don't seem to work, can you tell me how to fix this @odd ember

[odd ember]

I can't no

I don't know what error you're getting

[vital aspen]

ok, Thanks for what help you can give,

[odd ember]

all I can tell you is what I see

[vital aspen]

ok, Can anyone else help.

[high sapphire]

Hmm, even trying this isn't seeming to work. Not sure what I'm doing wrong..

It's still going back to the same default rotation

Oh, there we go, that worked. Just had to handle it in the Level Blueprint instead.

[high sapphire]

Thanks for the help!

[rich prairie]

I just downloaded 4.27.2 through the Launcher.

I wanted to use Chaos.

Was that a mistake? Am I required to download and install from GIT?

[severe tendon]

How could i make a crosshair that moves with the mouse?

Like in top down shooters where you move the crosshair in the screen and shoot from there

[rich prairie]

So I need the GIT version?

[icy dragon]

Download the Chaos build instead.

But unless you're looking for something super specific from Chaos, PhysX will do just fine.

[blissful grail]

This is a screenshot from the launcher directly

[rich prairie]

I'm not really looking for anything special

[icy dragon]

Make a custom cursor.

You can set it in Project Settings on what widget to treat as cursor.

[rich prairie]

Thanks. I see it now. Stupid me, wasted time on downloading, installing and verify of version without it.

[icy dragon]

Then normal build with PhysX should do anyway.

[rich prairie]

Thanks 🙂

[severe tendon]

Where is the option?

Inside Project settings

[icy dragon]

Chaos in UE4 is not in a stable state and far more complicated to setup (and not having good performance compared to PhysX)

[rich prairie]

Okay. It's because I can't make the normal Destruction not fracture objects before I tell it to be destructible.

Like if I want a box to be solid until a certain event is done.

I fixed this by replacing a solid mesh with a destructible mesh, but it can't be true that it's the way it should be done.

Well, I got 4.27.2 now. So it's not complete loss 😄 I had 4.26.2 before.

[icy dragon]

You did it by having the object waiting for impulse strong enough (On Hit event) before you swap it with destructible counterpart and apply the impulse.

That's what even AAA games do.

[rich prairie]

Okay, so it's actually the right way I use, that I swap it for a destructible.,

[icy dragon]

And from my testings, PhysX destruction isn't like destroying the mesh all at once, so I don't think the swapping is necessary for larger meshes like buildings

It is an option for smaller objects tho.

[rich prairie]

I have actors that only thrown objects should destroy. That's why I was doing the swap mesh with destructible mesh on hit by throw actor

[lofty ravine]

Is there a way i can add mod support to my game and add custom assets???

[icy dragon]

There is a way, but BP alone isn't enough to provide that.

[icy dragon]

The most proper way is to modify the engine (involving C++) and provide dumbed down version of UE4 Editor distributed through Epic.

[lofty ravine]

Hmmmm ok, so lets say i want to add a .wav file in a folder is there a way it can read it and put into a dynamic array and adds it on there. And read the file??

[keen wedge]

Hey all, I was wondering how you all tackle the order of execution when it comes to bindings...

I often have a function off of BeginPlay which sets up some refences to classes I will need to use a lot, if it was the GameMode I may have the PlayerController referenced for etc. In addition to this, I'd have a following function which does the bindings for events.

The problem I run into, time and time again, is the order in which objects are created, and depending how you launch the game, viewport, standalone, build, it varies.

What I would really like is a process that I can use which says "all the important stuff is setup, its safe to do the bindings now" (or any other initialisation that I want to do that relies on various things being set up. Of course, if I use the GameInstance, I can't connect to some of these objects with a bind because they won't exist at the very begining. So my problem is effectively handling late binds.

One method that seems to work - WHICH I HATE - is throwing in a Delay node for 0.2 seconds... invariably everything seems to be created by the time thats happened, and then it all just magically works, but I HATE this so much, as its just a bit of an artbitrary value that whilst it may work on my laptop, might not work for someone else's set up...

So... what is it that I'm doing wrong? Is it my approach? Is there a better way? I tend to use the event driven route via dispatchers quite a bit, so would really like to find a good way to just make this work every time... I'm learning towards the GameInstance effectively waiting until everything reports that its setup... there's a HasBegunPlay node which looks like it might support this, but I would really like to know what you all do...

[late gorge]

Hi, i want to be able to invert a N-dimensional matrix (and just access N-dimensional matrix math) but i'm only seeing 4D matrix operations in blueprints. Are there ways to get N-dimensional matrix math? Or is this only available in c++/not at all?

[muted ember]

You still haven't answered me 😅

[rose citrus]

HELP. I deleted a macrolibrary I didn't need anymore and a few minutes later I played my game and i got an error. Now I see that for some reason my character movement in my player and enemies are gone!!

What do I do?

It doesn't seem like I can just add character movement component back

[crisp vault]

is there a node which ignores/doesnt have the opacity of the color and opacity node?

[tranquil abyss]

@maiden wadi so I think my issues is more to do with the logic in the Widget (first picture is the Color logic for the widget and the second one is getting the text for the widget. Seems to be returning to all of that class and im wondering how I can get the value for the individual actor and not show for everything of that class. When I stand over one item and then another it will only show the name and color for the first item (if im over multiple) Interesting stuff

ik ur answering like 40 questions atm lol sorry

[odd ember]

really depends on use cases but generally if you want to prevent race conditions, make assertions of spawn order that you can account for

e.g. if one actor spawns another actor, you can assert that the parent will spawn before the child

[tranquil abyss]

could you check if X exists befor spawning the dependency in some way

[odd ember]

you would have to poll continuously for it

so every frame you'd have to check

[tranquil abyss]

oof

[odd ember]

if you just check once it's useless

[tranquil abyss]

I tried

[odd ember]

polling is valid

but there are better ways

for the most part

[tranquil abyss]

@odd ember if you have a second could you take a stab at my recent question also

[odd ember]

I don't when people ping me generally

[maiden wadi]

This can get tedious after a while. The problem with answering this question is that it depends on a case to case basis. Most of it just comes from knowing the framework and how you build your own on top of it. If you want a truly easy way to handle manager classes amond each other at initial beginplay, use casts and a registration system somewhere like your GameInstance or a base GameState class. Have objects fire off and send themselves to the system when they're ready for play as a base uobject pointer. Your objects that need bindings can bind to these classes. GameIntance always exists, and GameState has to exist for Beginplay to be called so they're always available for binding. So if your classes that need to bind to other major things register with this, and then call their own check to see if what they need exists, if no, they wait for the binding to run, cast each object to the pointer type they need, if it's the correct one, it is the object you're looking for. This of course only works with framework classes, won't work with things that there can be multiples of. But usually those things are wrapped in their own managers anyhow. But like I said, there is no one solution for all. Stack your bricks and try to keep them somewhat in order as you do.

[rose citrus]

I seem to have a problem. I deleted a macroLibrary I didn't need and I realized a few minutes later it somehow deleted my character movement components in my player and enemy blueprints. I don't know how that is possible but now I don't know what to do. I don't seem to have a recent backup of those blueprint. Is my only option to copy and paste all the nodes, variables, functions, macros etc to a new player blueprint?

[mild crystal]

so i made this, and now on true i want to move the character to a location. How do i do that?

[odd ember]

you really want source control for those kinds of situations

[mild crystal]

move to location isnt working.

[maiden wadi]

Wait, your issue here is that only one of them is showing, not all that you're standing over. Am I following that correctly?

Also. Your first two image's cast nodes are bugging me. 😄 You're calling actor level functions off of a cast that will always succeed. Makes the casts pointless.

[maiden wadi]

No. If it bothers you that much, make your own function in a BP Library or something that takes the widget type and just doesn't set the opacity to anything but 1.

[tranquil abyss]

well Id like to post an explanation

with pictures but this is happening again

[maiden wadi]

Clyde doesn't seem to like you. 😄

[tranquil abyss]

ik lmao

1 sec

[crisp vault]

ahh true i forgot about that, im not very confident in custom function but thats a direction

i found also render opacity which the node doesnt set so could use this, the problem is always not to know which way is best, since UE loves to crash so much, thanks

[maiden wadi]

Depends on your case. Render Opacity is probably easier for most widgets. Color only works on stuff like Borders, Images, Text, etc.

[crisp vault]

Okay then ill use this instead for now, thanks for the advice

[mild crystal]

i made this function but isnt working, can someone help me?

[tranquil abyss]

So When I overlap with 1 weapon everything show correctly, If I lap with a weapon and then overlap with another At the same time The Text color and name of the first weapon also shows for the other actor im colliding with

and then if I walk away from both and go to the second

the second weapon displays properly

[maiden wadi]

Are these all in the weapon?

[tranquil abyss]

and this creates a problem with Im holding a weapon. All the weapons I walk over have the weapon im holdings name and color

Yes

My coworker just said I should be getting these values form the local weapon stuct its self and not a database look up

[maiden wadi]

Then you need to ditch the idea of getting it from the character. Your weapon knows what it is itself. The only thing it should need to know about the character is whether or not the character is overlapping it.

Database lookup is fine. But your weapon class would need it's own FName set for that weapon type to look up in.

[tranquil abyss]

I love over engineering the hell out of things

[tranquil abyss]

That is in the widget btw

not the weapon

[maiden wadi]

The widget is in the widget component?

[tranquil abyss]

the Get text and also get color are part of the widget

[maiden wadi]

Weapon's beginplay needs to pass the weapon's self pointer to the widget. GetWidgetComponent->GetUserWidgetObject->CastToWidgetClass-> InitializeWithWeapon(Self)

[tranquil abyss]

sorry work picked up so I might be confusing

[brazen pike]

omg, you should do a select on integer for the colour

rather than a switch

[tranquil abyss]

oof

[maiden wadi]

Shouldn't do either. Maps are king.

[tranquil abyss]

https://tenor.com/view/brain-explosion-gif-18355735

[tulip mason]

No, you should do a for loop that checks if each one is true, then do a switch statement. You know, just because.

[maiden wadi]

Personally I'd probably have a data asset with those colors as a map. No need to store that as extra data on the weapon itself. DataAsset can just have a function on it. GetRarityColor(RarityValue)

[tulip mason]

Be all Yandere style

[trim matrix]

Is it bad if an Actor calls Destroy on itself?

[maiden wadi]

DataAsset can be stored as a pointer on the weapon. Much cheaper than a bunch of colors.

[rose citrus]

Does anyone know what I can do. My unreal engine 4.27 keeps crashing now every time I click on maps and modes in Project settings. As soon as I click the button. I've tried several times.

Don't know if this is the right place to post this

[keen wedge]

Hi Authaer, not sure if you mean tedious answering these kind of questions, or the actual problem - maybe both 🙂

Thank you for the reply. I was trying to think of a way similar to that which you described. I approached it from a very simplistic fashion initially just to see if it might work. 4 booleans on the GameInstance, one for the GameMode, PlayerController, PlayerCharacter, and GameState. The idea was that after BeginPlay on each of these classes they would communicate with the GameInstance to say "I'm ready"... once all of the booleans were True, all of those objects would be effectively ready and I could then potentially use an event dispatcher on the GameInstance to say "Ok, Lets Go!" - each of these would then receive that, and do their initialisation...

...what made it feel icky was that I would have liked to have used the event dispatchers in the other direction also... e.g. have the GameIntance bind to the GameMode's "Instantiated" event dispatcher.. but because there's a good change it won't exist when it tries to do this, it just errors... which means the only other way I can really do it is to expose a function on GameInstance which each of these objects then call... wasn't really how I wanted to do it... would rather those objects just said "I'm ready" and anything that was interested can register its interest so to speak.

Any thoughts on the above, or, in the approach you were suggesting, do you have any form of really simple example you might be able to share?

I go around and around in circles with this stuff, what I would give for a class diagram that visually showed the execution of everything... sniff

[odd ember]

I mean I did give you an example if you look up

[keen wedge]

Sorry only just jumped back on and missed your replies - my apologies.

The problem with what you've said, in my scenario, is that I don't get to control the spawning of GameInstance, GameMode, PlayerController, or GameState... they are all being created by the engine...

[dawn gazelle]

If you're using a ratio, then it won't work with the timer code I gave you. What I gave you is expecting to tick on real-time seconds and it determines what the in-game time is based on number of real-time seconds elapsed.
Here's one that works for using a ratio so that the ticks of the timer correlate to your in-game minutes.
https://blueprintue.com/blueprint/oyj161b0/

The calculation for the timer values is based on the the number of real-time seconds / number of game minutes in that time period (so for day time it would be 600 / 1020 (which is 11PM[1380] - 6AM[360])) == 0.588....

All that said, it will eventually fall out of sync with real time if you do it this way as you're dealing with fractions of seconds ticking.

I've tested this code, and it works without issue - as expected, when 10 minutes elapses, it's 11PM, and after another 5 minutes it was back at 6AM. The image here is to show you how to format the Game Minutes Passed into a 24HR time format.

[maiden wadi]

You can generally reliably know that each object is created before another in the case of the default framework. For instance. No beginplay can run without GameState. GameState is spawned by GameMode. GameMode is spawned by the persistent world and that is created long after GameInstance.

[main lake]

By you hardcoded the value for the day and the night and those are ratios too, so why mine is out of sync and you're isn't ? 🤔

[keen wedge]

Ironically, one of the issues I'm having is that I'm trying to reference the GameState from within GameMode after BeginPlay...

and its coming back as null

[maiden wadi]

As for a better example. I'm unsure. I don't have much framework that requires other stuff. Most of my managers are actor components on major actors like HUD for local managers, GameState for game wide managers. I largely ignore the player controller in most cases. PlayerStates are somewhat of a pain in blueprint only, but are easy if you override a C++ function in GameStateBase and add a delegate call. Pawn ui and such is retrieved through their PlayerStates in a lot of cases.

[odd ember]

you can in fact control the spawning of player controller from game mode, and the subsequent player pawn spawn. other than that you can create your own classes to spawn the order that you want

[maiden wadi]

Er. I'm not sure that's actually possible. O.o

Are you sure a cast or something isn't failing?

[keen wedge]

I've just checked and it would seem that the cast was failing, because, being an utter numpty, I hadn't specified "my" BP_GameState in the GameMode class defaults... (its been a very long day)...

I'll rewind all of the changes I've just tried and see if I can get it to work... just really wondered if there was a "best approach" kinda thing to this... I fully appreciate that there's so much flexibility with UE4 to make stuff work in all manner of cases, but that very same flexibility seems to cause me no end of problems. Which leads me to feel that I'm a fekking eejit and have no idea what I'm doing... 😦

[maiden wadi]

😄 Yeah, basically what happens is that GameState has a function that gets called on it by the GameMode. This sets a replicated bool and then calls the function locally. After that two functions are called. The first iterates over every actor currently in the current UWorld and calls Beginplay on it. Then it sets a state in the UWorld that it's BeganPlay. After that any Actor that is spawned, sees that World has beganplay, and calls the event directly after spawning it. Because of this you can always know for sure that GameState exists at beginplay.

[dawn gazelle]

It's probably in the math. What are you using for your ratios?

[tranquil abyss]

What is a map / dict called in unreal

[maiden wadi]

Map in blueprint. TMap in code.

[dawn gazelle]

What are the values in all those variables?

[pliant jewel]

Is there a way to use a math function to create a curve in a curve asset?

[main lake]

Start Night Time = 23
Start Day Time = 6
Day Duration = 10 (IRL minutes)
Night Duration = 5 (IRL minutes)

[spark steppe]

how tf are you still stuck on this?

it's been 2 weeks now?

also your ratio calculation looks way too complicated

depending on whatever those ratios should represent

[spark steppe]

you can, to some extend, use math expressions when entering values for a curve point

not sure if there's any builtin method to create a whole curve based on it, but is the curve even necessary if you use a math expression for all values anyways?

[dawn gazelle]

Ok, those calculations should work with those values. You'll get the same values I had hardcoded. Are you setting the timers correctly?

[pliant jewel]

Do you know of any way to view multiple Curve assets on the same window?

[spark steppe]

no, that's something that also bothered me a while back

[pliant jewel]

Ahh bummer

[main lake]

Here are all the functions to calculate days, hours and minutes + my code for the timer https://blueprintue.com/blueprint/kap4vkxz/

[frozen ledge]

For some reason, on my server TxtLog isn't being called as valid, despite doing a check on both ends

i'm doing a two player game, with a function call to print text on both screens depending on whatever was committed in the text field

[dark crow]

Is that in a widget?

[frozen ledge]

yeah, i added this check since i was getting the error accessed none trying to read property txtlog

[dark crow]

Widgets can't be replicated

They only exist on Client

[frozen ledge]

oh, interesting

[dark crow]

So you gotta set the text from somewhere else in that case

[frozen ledge]

yeah, I assume I have to dynamically spawn/destroy the text

in that case

[vagrant flicker]

Hey guys, any advice on how can I make the item that I place to have the right orientation towards the wall its placed for example?

I have this and its working very well, but I need to do some more calculations that I cannot figure
https://blueprintue.com/blueprint/yzx2tvhm/

For some reason its working only for the one direction 😄

[odd ember]

trace a line, get the hit normal, use that?

[vagrant flicker]

I am using the direction now, should I use the hit normal or impact normal?

[odd ember]

try both

[vagrant flicker]

Its going underground for some reason :/ It disappears

[maiden wadi]

HitNormal and ImpactNormal are the same thing in a line trace. They only differ in shape traces.

[vagrant flicker]

Using them instead of getting the location makes my detached item disappears for some reason

[maiden wadi]

For the rotation, not the location.

MakeRotFromXVector

[vagrant flicker]

Now is one idea better, but the torch is pointing straight up

Instead of 25 on X for example

[dawn gazelle]

Looks like you're not calling your "Calculate Ratios" function before starting your timers... You're probably using whatever default values are in those variables.

[vagrant flicker]

Is there any smart way of doing a check if the item is going to detach against the wall to use that 25 rotation on the X axis, and if its going down on the ground then I dont care

for the rotation

[main lake]

I do that in the construction script

[maiden wadi]

DotProduct HitNormal InRange -0.7 to 0.7

DotProduct to VectorUp I mean.

[vagrant flicker]

I am confused

I get the impact normal and RotationFromXVector to the transsform rotation of the SetActorTransform

Its very close to my end goal, but cannot clamp directly the rotationFromXVector

[frozen ledge]

Not to interrupt, but I can have two separate instances of a widget, can I pass the same value into both of them using an RPC call in blueprint? I'm basically just trying to send a message through both, I already have the implementation, I've turned off the replication on my reference to my blueprint class

[dawn gazelle]

Well, if you're sure that's firing, then it's probably because every time the counters tick you're calling StartTimer which resets the timer, which may mess with the counting ....But to be honest, I don't know.

[main lake]

Why would it reset the timer ?

[vagrant flicker]

@maiden wadi do you mean something like this?

[maiden wadi]

No. You need to select between two different rotations. Either the one that is the hit normal, or the one that is slightly offset.

[tranquil abyss]

So would casting to the data asset to get the map be stupid or is that how you would do it

[vagrant flicker]

How? Should I use select?

[maiden wadi]

No need to cast to it. Just put a pointer in your weapon class. DataAssets are static. You can use them just like a StaticMesh or Material. They're not instanced.

[main lake]

Authaer could you check the screenshots above please ? 🙂

[tranquil abyss]

I know what you mean by A pointer in code but not in unreal

[maiden wadi]

That or a function. Getting your rotators is going to be semi difficult depending on what you need. If your torch already stands up straight when it's at 0,0,0 rotation, it's a little easier.

[tranquil abyss]

also can we clone Authaer, to many questions not enough time lmao

[vagrant flicker]

I don't care for the torch if its on ground. It may be rotated however its easier. I need to set the offset if Its touching an object

[maiden wadi]

Is it on it's side or standing up in the static mesh viewer?

[vagrant flicker]

standing in the viewport of the bp

[maiden wadi]

Hmm. You might be able to simply get the RotationXVector from the normal, break it add 25 to pitch and remake it with that and then use that for the rotation.

Er. Remove 25 pitch even. Adding would put it the wrong way.

[vagrant flicker]

So get rot from x -> break rot into axes -> X - 25 X -> make rot from X -> plug to new transform rotation

[maiden wadi]

Er. That was roll.

[grave apex]

Im curious, is there any way to make having the blueprint editor open not slow down game fps?

even if you have a big graph open?

[maiden wadi]

Run in Standalone.

[vagrant flicker]

This is exactly what I was looking. Just now when I drop the torch on ground it is going slightly underground. Is there any fix for that?

[grave apex]

aw, there aint some freeze-bp-editor checkbox I can run? lol

[maiden wadi]

Try this.

[maiden wadi]

Not as far as I'm aware. I've never noticed it being that bad though even at work which has some crazy maps. Editor doesn't usually do much. Only time it should be an issue is for profiling, and you should be doing that in packaged games anyhow.

[tranquil abyss]

Sorry for the 400th question but how do I get a pointer to a DataAsset, and also is this what you mean by data asset

[maiden wadi]

Oh, right. Uh. Yes, and no. Now you have to create the actual asset. That's the class for it.

[vagrant flicker]

Working like charm!

[maiden wadi]

You should be able to create a new Asset out of that class you have there. Then in your weapon you can create a pointer of the class type, compile the blueprint, and then set it to the new asset version.

You can add properties to the class, and set their defaults in the asset. You can also add functions to the class, and call them on the pointer you specify the asset instance in.

[tranquil abyss]

I already deleted the asset blueprint thing

oh

So you need to make a bluepritnt of a type of data assets?

and then select it for the data asset

[maiden wadi]

Yep.

[tranquil abyss]

My brains gonna pop 😂

[maiden wadi]

😄 Welcome to data management 101.

[tranquil abyss]

I gotta say having a CS degree helps alot with this

I would have zero clue if I didnt understand how code works

[maiden wadi]

I wish I had one. Would probably help. It takes me some time usually to catch on to specific words or phrases when reading tech blogs and such. 😄

[tranquil abyss]

You dont need one at all

but it made since for me to go to school

anyways

@maiden wadi so make the logic in the blueprint asset and then make the acutall asset form the blueprint

progress is happening

finally

[maiden wadi]

Yep. You create properties and code in the blueprint, and then you can open and set those defaults in the pink/purple asset version.

[tranquil abyss]

Yeah this make since

this is just a python dict

and dicts are fast af

🧠

[dawn gazelle]

Every time the timer ticks, it's going to reset the timer.

[main lake]

Yeah but the counting timer is my variable "Timer" which keeps the old value before the reset, so I don't see why it's a problem

[dawn gazelle]

I'm just pointing out that you have a timer that is intended to loop, but you restart it every time it ticks, thus it's not really looping. There may be something happening where unreal doesn't start the timer again until the next frame, in which case you're potentially not getting enough time actually set into the timer variable as the timer tick is not firing as much as you're expecting it should.. If you just let the timer loop as it's supposed to without restarting it, then unreal can handle the number of time's it's supposed to execute each frame without issue. This is only a guess. I literally have no idea further as to why your timers may be going out of sync, but this looks like something that potentially could cause it.

[maiden wadi]

Yeah, map lookup is incredibly fast. And also you get to specify it in one place. Saves memory. 😄 Not so bad on small stuff like this, but it all adds up. But now you have a global easy way to access your weapon rarity colors from anywhere you need. Anything from a visual glow affect, or widget can access this data with ease.

[tranquil abyss]

🧠

[main lake]

Oh interesting, how could I solve that please ? 🙂

[dawn gazelle]

Don't call Start Timer on tick of your timers.

[astral epoch]

Is there any sort of Begin Play on Init function/event for pure Object classes?

[main lake]

I'm not using the Tick() function

[astral epoch]

Or a Constructor to use for them?

[maiden wadi]

They should be initialized by their owner.

[dawn gazelle]

Never mentioned the tick function.... it's the tick of your timers... your timer event.

[maiden wadi]

IE, if their owner is an actor, have it route it's own beginplay to these objects, or call a function on them from their owner when creating them.

[main lake]

But when the night starts I need use the Night Ratio that's why I need to call it again 🤔 Is there another way to do that ?

[dawn gazelle]

Don't call the night function in such a way.

[main lake]

How should I call it then ?

[dawn gazelle]

Did you even look at the example code I gave oyu?

[astral epoch]

So for context; I'm making a faction manager. Figured that wouldn't need any sort of in-world presence and its being created in the Level Blueprint (probably a better place for it tbh).

Suppose I could just set all the faction relationships in the level blueprint actually.

[main lake]

yeah but you hardcoded the Time value in the "Set Timer By Event" can I use the ratio function I created to do that ?

[maiden wadi]

As in a single object that maintains all factions data? if so I'd consider something like an ActorComponent on GameState

[astral epoch]

That might be a good shout, though could I not use the Object on GameState too?

Is there any real difference in that choice?

[dawn gazelle]

Of course you can use your calculated ratios... we even came up with the same values. If anything needs to change it's just the branches that check the amount of minutes passed would need some input values if you want to keep along with being able to dynamically set the times (needs to be in game minutes).

[maiden wadi]

Sure, you can. And not much. Components are cheap. And you get easy access to beginplay, and tick, and world. Much easier to access things from without C++.

[astral epoch]

Not hugely worried about having to use C++, I'm making a prototype for now but will likely start using C++ if I'm pleased with the final state of the prototype and want to move forward with the project.

But yeah, component sounds like it may be a better shout just for that beginplay. Tick not so useful here.

[dawn gazelle]

I know you have the extra checks on your timers too (like your minigame time), that can be an added event call on both the timer ticks by adding this event and calls to it.

[tranquil abyss]

do I bring the asset in as a variable, ive looked around and dont see how that works

I do have these set up, the data from the blueprint does show in the asset

[maiden wadi]

Then you can use the pointer to access your function you made.

They're static, globally accessible. So there's no need to "Spawn" or "Create" an instance to set into the pointer, you can specify it just like you do a mesh or material.

[maiden wadi]

You need to use your own assets name. 😄

[tranquil abyss]

https://tenor.com/view/seth-meyers-my-brain-is-gone-mindblown-whoa-woah-gif-10501596

[tranquil abyss]

Dude I was really trying to call that name instead of my asset name

I think I need a brain break

😂 😂

[long whale]

is there a way to avoid input variable connection spaghetti in Macros?

[earnest tangle]

input variable connection spaghetti..?

[trim matrix]

Thank you!

[long whale]

all those lines going out from input variables

when referencing in multiple places

[earnest tangle]

you can just add additional gets :)

[odd ember]

that's cheating, I'll report you to the blueprint authority

[earnest tangle]

good thing I have an official Tim Sweeney Get Out Blueprint Hell card

[long whale]

I don't believe we can do that in macrolib

[earnest tangle]

Ah, yeah it only works on functions

[long whale]

yes

[earnest tangle]

Not much else you can do then than try to arrange the lines so it doesn't get too confusing

I've mostly just made functions, I haven't found macros so useful

[zealous oasis]

is there a way to attach a secondary collision component to a character that blocks movements for others?
Preferably one that I can rotate

[earnest tangle]

Sure, just attach another collider to it

did you change its collision profile?

fairly sure if you set it to physics and block the correct channel it should block then 🤔

[main lake]

What Event should I call first to launch the timer ?

[wispy fiber]

If I spawn an actor from a class soft reference of a blueprint, it will crash unless I've previously opened that blueprint in the editor or have an instance of the blueprint already in the level. So it seems like when there's just a class soft reference to something, Unreal will not bother loading it into memory or something, so it doesn't know how to create it. Does anybody know how I can specify a list of blueprints to make sure are loaded into memory when the game/editor start?

[spark steppe]

load asset blocking

then cast the result to class

[wispy fiber]

ahhh neat, I'll give that a try

[spark steppe]

there's also an async counterpart https://docs.unrealengine.com/4.26/en-US/BlueprintAPI/Utilities/AsyncLoadAsset/

which you can use if you don't need the result at the current tick

[wispy fiber]

sounds good, thanks!

[spark steppe]

@wispy fiber just checked and for classes there seems to be a separate node

load class asset blocking (which also does the cast for you)

[wispy fiber]

it doesn't seem to do the cast, but it does work

[spark steppe]

ok, i'm on 5.0 maybe that changed there

[wispy fiber]

ah, I'm on 4.26

hmm I wonder what happens when you load an asset on the client and then pass the resolved class reference to the server via replicated rpc and try to spawn the asset

probably bad things

[spark steppe]

no idea, also not sure if it's advised to replicate class/object references at all

[wispy fiber]

yeah that's probably a good point too. I know object references are supposed to work, but class reference seems weird (although it does appear to work)

[spark steppe]

now i wonder why the async asset loading methods wont show up in my editor -.- nvm they only work in event graph

[wispy fiber]

if I load an asset on the server and then spawn it (assuming it's a replicated actor), I wonder if the client will automatically load it aswell or if it'll crash

[dawn gazelle]

Depends on what time of day you want the timer to start on. Day Time? StartDayTime. Night Time? StartNightTime