blueprint

[thin panther]

im just too good at discord

[dark crow]

A true refined gentleman

[thin panther]

i refuse to believe they posted a question and then just ran away from discord

[potent laurel]

out of curiosity

is that what he wanted

i never used soft references before

[dark crow]

I'm scared of what I'm witnessing

[thin panther]

not exactly

[cobalt gulch]

I just don't want to have 500 variables saying whether or not the player has an item for each

[potent laurel]

or set by reference

[thin panther]

you want the blue pin one iirc

[thin panther]

then explain what your trying to do

my mind reading wizard skills are lacking

[potent laurel]

lol

[cobalt gulch]

Have it so I can easily note whether a player has an item

[thin panther]

if you cant explain what your trying to do in detail then i cant help you

you have rephrased the same sentence three times

[dark crow]

Use tags instead 🤣

[thin panther]

what are these items, why would oyu need to check for 500

refer to this comment

[cobalt gulch]

Say it was needed to know whether the gun had been unlocked or not for every gun in the game

[thin panther]

having a player check for items could mean "im doing an inventory in a bad way and manually checking all 3000 item types"

or it could mean "does the player have a key"

[potent laurel]

have an inventory list

with only unlocked gubs

[thin panther]

so loop through an array of items, and check if they have been unlocked

an array of bools

when gun 1 is unlocked, set the corresponding index to true for instance

[cobalt gulch]

Should I do the same with missions ?

[thin panther]

yes at the end of the day you want to store a bunch of true or falses, so make an array of bools

[dark crow]

I mean, if they're individual, the simplest way is a true or false

[thin panther]

and you really dont have to worry about number

as theyre 1 bit each

you could have 300 weapons and it would still be less than 10 actors in a world

in terms of memory

and variable size

[potent laurel]

maybe 3000

[thin panther]

3000 is still only 100 actors

[cobalt gulch]

3000000000000000000000000000000000000

[potent laurel]

lol

[thin panther]

there we go

[dark crow]

If you have 3000 guns I would be worried for your sanity

[thin panther]

now we are being slightly unreasonable

[potent laurel]

array of bools is probs the easiest way too

[cobalt gulch]

Im literally creating a siege clone because the devs gave up with the game

[thin panther]

but likely your gonna have less than 150 guns and missions combined, so

[thin panther]

like r6 siege?

[cobalt gulch]

Yeah

[thin panther]

oof good luck

[cobalt gulch]

I'm going to hire voice actors

[thin panther]

thats not why i oofed

[cobalt gulch]

I know lol

Im only going to start with 1 map and a training level

[dark crow]

Buy a server farm

[thin panther]

you gotta pay for dedicated servers, and you gotta actually get people in game which is hard enough, and then youve gotta write good multiplayer code, and youve gotta learn c++ and youve also gotta not get sued by the publisher

[thin panther]

i wish you luck in your endeavours tho

[potent laurel]

lol

[cobalt gulch]

It's probably going to end up being a single player game because of the amount of work but it's really just a side project 🙂

[thin panther]

thank god for the single player game bit

you scared me for a second tho

although it is an interesting project

i will give you that

[dark crow]

Seems good to have fun and learn

[thin panther]

gives you a good chance to learn some good shooter ai too

genuinely hope you stick with it cause it sounds good

[dark crow]

Insert the division AI code

[cobalt gulch]

Thank you aha, imagine Siege with characters that are mercenaries paid to fight together lol

[thin panther]

we dont want to scare off the newbies now

[thin panther]

ARGHHHHHH

the pain.....

[dark crow]

the misery

[faint pasture]

I hope you have $1M+

[cobalt gulch]

Fuck this im going back to Scratch

[thin panther]

well done another project lost to division source code 😔

[dark crow]

Just mod Roblox

[thin panther]

wym fiverr is good enough

[dark crow]

Roblox 6 Siege

[faint pasture]

A seige clone would cost at least that with brilliant and cheap programmers and artists

[thin panther]

single player siege is more doable at least

its just a map with an objective and some shooty ai

way more feasible

i dont think theyre going for 100% true to form

[cobalt gulch]

I already have an objective for singleplayer, not for online tho lol

[faint pasture]

Depends on how close you consider to be "close enough", but feature and polish parity is a pipe dream

[dark crow]

Really gotta make those animations look hella crisp and clean

[cobalt gulch]

This is the kind of thing im going for with the characters

[dark crow]

And then say friggin hecc to Chaos for every weird and performance heavy destruction

[faint pasture]

I just figured out how electricity works. So anyways I'm gonna make an electric car company like Tesla but better. I have no money btw.

[dark crow]

Looks nice, you have fun with it

Just don't advertise it as a R6S clone in case :p

[cobalt gulch]

Yeah

Atm it's more like you get 3 different contracts and have to chose one to progress

[viscid hinge]

@potent laurel

i did it like you said and it didnt work

and again, if i add a do once node, the code doesnt run properly, the mesh hits the ground, detects the collison again for no reason and excustes again

[coarse frigate]

Hey guys, very noob question here...

In general, if you have a huge spiderweb of a blueprint, is it important to break it into macros / functions for specific tasks even if you don't intend to use them anywhere else in the BP? Or is it simply preference of readability?

[thin panther]

its just to help readability

generally really large spiderwebs would be translated to c++ for performance

but tbh, if it's a one use thing, split it up if you need it for readability, otherwise if you fancy risking pissing off future you you can keep the spiderweb

[gentle urchin]

Poor future you

Always gets the finger

[coarse frigate]

Lol yeah I am going back and commenting the piss out of one of the spiderwebs now. That's always worked for me in web dev. Thanks for the clarification. Some things make sense to split off, but I was finding myself doing it just to do it and it was actually making things worse in some cases.

[peak summit]

does UE anim bp have an "any state" transition?

[gentle urchin]

Depends on your state i suppose

You could have anything but

!=

[long whale]

Hi, anybody know what happened to scenecapturecomponent2D with new 5.0? My old render target become like this

[coarse frigate]

Another noob question along the same lines as in the answer may be opinionated...

What's the best way, if any, to share blueprints between projects? For example, let's say I came up with an inventory system that I really like and want to share blueprints or functions with any of my projects that will include the same system, is there a good way to share that? Or is it just a bad idea? I know in programming it's generally a good idea, but not sure how it works project to project with UE.

[coarse frigate]

Wish I could help you, all I will say is I have had to re-add little things here and there more than once since converting my project to get them to work as they used to.

[long whale]

feels bad. It seems to miss the objects I put in the scene. only capturing background

[peak summit]

might have been going about it wrong but i have custom montages for enemies who can run some gameplay abilities, so i can't quite figure out how to just "stop" the anim bp from going back to idle. Empty Death state results in T pose after montage.

ah, there we are.. the magic toggle

[long whale]

I feel it has something to do with rendering objects high in the skysphere or fog. Moving the scene down seems to fix the problem

[thin panther]

you could make it in a plugin, or migrate the files between projects

[gentle urchin]

Sadøy there's no easy way to sync it between projects tho

[icy dragon]

Git submodule

But admittedly it's kinda hacky

[hushed linden]

hey can anyone help me with a simple shooting system for my fps game?

[thin panther]

what probelm are you having

[hushed linden]

i just cant figure out the code

[thin panther]

I mean it depends on the type of shooting you want

[hushed linden]

ohh well im just want to start of with hipscan i think its called

[thin panther]

Typically you shoot a line trace forward from the camera, and there are plenty of guides on how to set that up

[gentle urchin]

And doesnt work cross engine versions does it

[icy dragon]

Nope.
Forward compatibility rule still applies

I mean as in bring it to older versions of the engine, there might be a chance for C++ plugins, but not for asset/content only stuff

[deep ether]

Anyone know if there is a way to write to volume render targets?

[worthy shadow]

I want to create a Widget BP, give it a name and store it within the project by giving a path. I want to do all that within Visual Studio itself. Any suggestions?

[mental trellis]

Shrug

[cobalt lynx]

Hey, anyone know why my vehicle keeps accelerating even after unpossess?

I tried spawning in an AI Controller, disabled input, manually applied breks and whiped all input. But it still keeps accelerating.
I just want it to roll after unpossess

[worthy shadow]

I saw some functions in FKismetEditorUtilities that are associated with creating a blueprint

Not really sure which to use because only one of them requests a filepath

       * @param Actor The actor to use as the template for the blueprint
       * @param bReplaceActor If true, replace the actor in the scene with one based on the created blueprint
       * @param bKeepMobility If true, The mobility of each actor components will be copy
       * @return The blueprint created from the actor
     */

static UBlueprint* CreateBlueprintFromActor(const FString& Path, AActor* Actor, bool bReplaceActor, bool bKeepMobility = false, UClass* ParentClassOverride = nullptr);

[spark steppe]

chances are high that those are editor only

i think the only gui stuff with c++ is slate

[mental trellis]

I mean, what about that method says to you that it's about creating a widget blueprint?

You can use UMG from c++

It's just, why would you?

[worthy shadow]

There's no specific method to create a WidgetBlueprint per say I think. This is the generic function to create a BP of a particular actor type from what I can see

[mental trellis]

Yeah. And a widget blueprint isn't an actor.

So you can't use that?

[worthy shadow]

Well I'm trying to perform the creation of a WidgetBP via clicking a button in my plugin. Remember I was trying to grab the map names through a combobox? I did that and after I select the map I want to automate the process of creating a minimap for it by clicking a button. So before creating the minimap, i want to first generate the WidgetBP that will contain it

Hope I made sense

[mental trellis]

You did.

[worthy shadow]

Phew

[spark steppe]

do you really need a bp for that?

my minimap grabs the loaded level and picks the correct map on its own

one widget for all levels

[worthy shadow]

This is my final university project

I'll be generating the map piece by piece within that widget BP i create

[foggy escarp]

So is it just me or is debugging simply not as useful as it should be.
hovering over variables usually doesn't show states, same for watches, and breakpoints.

but then at certain times it does, so it's unclear why they are shown and why not.

[spark steppe]

but still you don't need a separate widget for each level

[worthy shadow]

Ah right, I think I get what you're saying

[spark steppe]

what i do is dividing the world in chunks, rendering the bird view to a render target and writing that chunk with level and chunk location to the save game folder

[worthy shadow]

Cz having different widgets means changing which widget is displayed when the key is pressed

[spark steppe]

when the level changes the widget just has to grab the correct textures, either from disk or generate them

[worthy shadow]

The entire idea behind by project is kinda big and I want to keep it a little secret, could I PM you with my idea and for some help?

If you don't mind

[spark steppe]

xD

you don't have to spoil your plans here

[worthy shadow]

Thanks

[worthy shadow]

I have sent zee request

[radiant mural]

Please tell me why this is not working.

[foggy escarp]

I'm assuming the camera is attached to the camera boom?

[spark steppe]

i'm assuming it's not

[radiant mural]

Yep, and i can move it an everything.

[spark steppe]

or on the wrong socket

then some inherit rotation option is checked

[radiant mural]

Ok, that is true

That was it, thanks a bunch! I had 'use pawn rotation' set from a previous test

[fiery ridge]

How do you call a custom function/interface for each actor in the level via the For Each Loop node?

[spark steppe]

the question you shall not ask

GetAllActorsOfClass => ForEachLoop => Interface Call

[fiery ridge]

Does it matter if I'm using Get all actors with TAG instead?

[spark steppe]

no, thats most likely better as the list is shorter

[fiery ridge]

Thanks bro, it worked

[kindred marsh]

Hey guys i have a silly question because i stuck. I want to spawn an actor between my pawn's camera and an other actor. I try something like that (image) but it was mistake. obviously. Any ideas?

[faint pasture]

Your math is totally wrong

[spark steppe]

just lerp between both vectors, with alpha 0.5

[faint pasture]

Or add them and divide by 2

[spark steppe]

lerp is the lazy way 😄

[fiery swallow]

Hold up, adding 3 vectors and dividing by 3 gets the center point of the triangle???

[kindred marsh]

i am sure about that i am terrible on maths. Lerp or (Vector + Vector) / 2 what do you recommend?

[spark steppe]

define center point

[fiery swallow]

Leaping 2 vectors by 0.5 would get you the center point

Lerping*

[spark steppe]

center of mass or shortest distance between all corners?

[fiery swallow]

Center of mass

Like the middle

[faint pasture]

Depends on your definition of center point

[fiery swallow]

The dot in the center.

[kindred marsh]

this worked fine

[spark steppe]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centroid#Of_a_triangle (I give you the link because i'm really really really bad when something has more than 2 vertices) 😄

[kindred marsh]

Wait i made it

i forgot a BP that i had on my Spawned actor

[fiery swallow]

Right I was asking if the adding and the dividing method he used works for more then 2 points. Probably not im guessing

[faint pasture]

It does, it just may or may not actually get the centroid. I'm sure there's some word for what the average of a bunch of vectors is

[spark steppe]

average is the word

[kindred marsh]

thanks for your help guys you made the day for a bad on math new developer

[fiery swallow]

Awesome, I will definitely utilize that in the future. It came up once in the past and I banged my head trying to figure out a quick way to do it. Thanks

[faint pasture]

Turns out the centroid is the average

[fiery swallow]

I dont know what I'm looking at. We had to choose which kind of math we wanted to learn in highschool. We couldn't learn them all 👍

[spark steppe]

what the heck was the alternative math?

reading from lounge where they just said that french people say 4x20 for 80, was it french math?

[fiery swallow]

We had to choose between, algebra, geometry, calculus, physics, or trigonometry? I can't really remember. There was another one I think

[spark steppe]

trigonometry should be part of geometry

[fiery swallow]

That's why I put a question mark at the end of that one

[spark steppe]

and physics without algebra?

or math in general without algebra

[faint pasture]

Yes but an average is like, before all that

[spark steppe]

@fiery swallow which country do you live in?

[fiery swallow]

9th grade was pre algebra, 10th grade was geometry or calculus, and then 11th and 12th grade we had to choose a following path. I am in the US

[radiant mural]

I have my topdown camera boom set to inherit pawn rotation when i hold down the right mouse button. I turn back off inherit pawn rotation when i release the button. I cannot figure out how to make the camera stay where i put it while holding down the button. Afterwords, i still want it to behave as it did before i ever pressed the button in the sense that based on where i click, the pawn could walk towards the camera. If not an easy answer, no worries, i will keep trying

[fiery swallow]

I ended up doing pre algebra, algebra, and then algebra 2

[spark steppe]

getRelativeRotation and store it in a variable before you disable inherit, then set the relative rotation from the variable after you disabled inherit

that should in theory work (haven't tested it)

[radiant mural]

Ok, i had it after.. I will try before now

[spark steppe]

and the important part is to store it in a variable before you remove the inherit thing

[radiant mural]

Ok. I think i had it right After turning of inherit

I must still be doing something wrong

[trim matrix]

what shall i make?

[spark steppe]

do you not want it the other way around?

inherit when the button is released

[radiant mural]

inherit location/rotation when button is released, and set rotation/location then too

[spark steppe]

what is your actual goal?

because you can't have both like this

[radiant mural]

I want the camera to change modes while i press the right mouse and allow me to rotate like i am in third person mode, with this topdown camera. Then when i release the mouse button, i want the camera to stay where i left it, but return to topdown style control

The problem is, to my brain, that should have worked. (I do not think like a programmer)

[spark steppe]

the moment you turn inherit on again it would probably snap back

[radiant mural]

Yes, exactly. You know your stuff!

[radiant mural]

Ok, this is essentially working

Kind of'

[jaunty dome]

GetAllActorsOfClass doesn't include actors that are child components

how do I get all light actors in the world, including those attached to the player bp ?

[icy dragon]

Definitely not calculus

[radiant mural]

@jaunty dome I am not sure, but maybe you can give the lights Tags and search for them by Tags instead of class

[fiery swallow]

Wdym? Calculus was an option

[icy dragon]

Mostly relevant math in game programming are the usual algebra, vector maths, trigonometry, curve math (inc. logarithm), matrices (though BP alone can't do this), and binary/bit operations

Calculus is barely used for game programing, if not at all

[spark steppe]

laughs in curve(d) assets

[icy dragon]

laughs in manually graphing curves for shaders

[fiery swallow]

Oh I thought you meant the options in my school my bad. We were talking about my basic highschool. I got my programming degree from youtube and Google. College free bois

[icy dragon]

Ah...
My math in high school didn't even reach calculus at all lol.

[dusk cave]

can someone tell me why I'm unable to click on my text box with my mouse

[icy dragon]

It was just trigonometry, matrices, vectors, and statistical finite relations

[fiery swallow]

Both of our schools were probably low ranked for education :)

[trim matrix]

There could be alot of reasons, I would first make sure that there is no invisable widget overtop of the textbox

Maybe that text box is behind your main hud?

[dusk cave]

no its not

[fiery swallow]

When you add it to viewport try giving it a ridiculously high zorder value

[dusk cave]

ok

how do i check that

[fiery swallow]

If you are hovering over a button in the UI and it doesn't work. 9/10 there's another UI infront of it

[trim matrix]

yep

99/100

it may not seem like there is anything in front of it, but most of the time there somehow is

[icy dragon]

Try checking it with Widget Reflector

[dusk cave]

bottom one is the one im trying to click on

[trim matrix]

it can be a diffferent widget as well.

[icy dragon]

If you use widget reflector, you can see what widget gets the hit first from the cursor

[dusk cave]

ill try that

[spark steppe]

also check if you didn't set it to not hit testable

[dusk cave]

ok so it says my mouse is over HUD display

[trim matrix]

yep

your HUD Display is above your text box in the heirarchy

Litterly your text box is the lowest thing in your heiarchy

move it to the top

[dusk cave]

i did but nothing happened

[trim matrix]

Just because the HUD_Display looks invisible in some parts, does not mean its not consuming mouse click.

[agile coyote]

why are some of my pins coloured in?

[icy dragon]

Because it's vectors

[trim matrix]

is that UE5 or something?

[icy dragon]

Nothing sussy wussy

[icy dragon]

Yes, UE5 math nodes are universal now

[trim matrix]

oh nice

[open latch]

I got a walk speed adjustment event linked to a destructible mesh, how can I prevent the fractured meshes from calling that event ?

[icy dragon]

Though it can backfire with single float and double float vars

[trim matrix]

Im not sure what your asking.

oh there

[agile coyote]

Here you can see the top ones are normal yellow, the bottom one is half yellow though

I'm thinking it's because this project was an upgraded UE4 one. all new nodes i place have teh half yellow pins. if i delete the top one and recreate it, it'll also be half yellow

[dusk cave]

that worked thank you

[trim matrix]

If that worked, I would check to make sure you do not have multiple of your PlayerHUDUis created

also I would check

[ember bluff]

I can't find how to convert static meshes into blueprints, in ue5

[trim matrix]

To see if there is some other invisable HUD still on the screen

Like maybe you created an equipment HUD at some point

[ember bluff]

I searched for blueprint in the details, and found nothing

[trim matrix]

and you hid it but didnt properly delete it

something like that

[dusk cave]

my game does have a VHS screen effect which might be the problem

[agile coyote]

funnily enough, mousing over them gives slightly diff tooltips. i guess the old blueprint nodes were replaced with the updated versions but still exist behind the scenes?

[trim matrix]

If the VHS screen effect is a widget that is over the screen then yes, that could of been the issue.

[trim matrix]

Convert static meshes into blueprints??

Do you mean like

Take a static mesh assest and turn it into an editable blueprint?

[ember bluff]

Select 5 static meshes from the world, click a "create blueprint" and create a blueprint with those static meshes

like I did in ue4

[trim matrix]

Oh yes I remember doing that to, I dont know how todo it in UE5 if you still can

You can just create the blueprint manualy

Can create another blueprint and just attach those static mesh actors to it

good luck xD

[ember bluff]

thanks

I don't know why they took that option out

[limber jacinth]

Are you making prefabs?

[trim matrix]

to be honest im not sure why the option would of been removed or changed

[ember bluff]

Yeah

[limber jacinth]

I think the workflow was changed to "Packed Level Instances" iirc, I could be wrong, but here is a video on that process. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PtGDgMIbyyg

[trim matrix]

nice

[ember bluff]

thanks!

[maiden wadi]

The actual Prefabricator plugin was really good for UE4 at least. Haven't checked it's status on 5 yet.

[bronze hill]

Hello Guys i have question about event dispatcher

I'm studying the plug-in that i bought.

[trim matrix]

Well whats the question

Just ask

[bronze hill]

this works

but it doesn't

i think of it as a timing problem, but it's strange that it doesn't work after everything is complete

[trim matrix]

its not a timing problem

The code is attempting to loop through each object in the array, and bind an event to each of them

This is working properly in the first picture

In the second picture, no binding is happening till after the loop has completed

[bronze hill]

ah ha! it should be assign every objects?!

[trim matrix]

yes, the code needs to assign a binding to every object.

[bronze hill]

thank you so much!

have a nice day1

!

[trim matrix]

you to

[undone surge]

how do i assign different sound effect for each child class? what kind of variable would it be to store sounds as a variable

[slim grove]

how can i have the gun on the default FPS be automatically attached to the player i tried stuff but nothing worked.

[agile coyote]

is there an easier way to get the top left and bottom right coordinates of an actor than this?

[trim matrix]

I couldn't tell you, this wouldn't be the best channel to ask in.

[odd ember]

worth reading the channel descriptions really

[trim matrix]

SoundWave or SoundCue types

[undone surge]

@trim matrix is there a way to customize each sound to make it random ?

[trim matrix]

Yes, I only would know how to do it programmatically though

Depends on what you mean by random as well

[open latch]

Left stump is the one I put in the world
right stump is the one called by another other blue print on play

It is a destructible mesh ... Why doesn't it retain its scaling when spawned ?

[trim matrix]

Its not as simple as Beginplay -> Attach componet to actor? Not sure what the setup in that default FPS template is though. Might have to go into more detail about your problem.

[slim grove]

basicaly the gun by default has a collsion the when collided by the player casts it to the player but i need to get the player actor but i am unable to do it without the collision because i am new to UE5

[trim matrix]

guys u have a big issue

Hey so i have a problem . i misclicked forcedelete of a file and cannot restore them. I have a backuo file but how to get it to recognise in unreal engine

[trim matrix]

I see. So this gun is a pickup on the ground? Then you collide with it and it attaches itself to your player? is that what your saying?

[trim matrix]

Please just ask the question. We are here to help

[slim grove]

yes but i want to to be atached from the start instead of being a pickup

[trim matrix]

oki but its kinda vague bc idek how to describ it

I see, well there is a couple different approches you could take.

when i shoot my gun {left click} my ammo goes and and shit but nothing shoots

here is my bp can yalll tell me if anything is wrong with it?

[trim matrix]

Do you want to VC real quick? easier to explain over call.

[slim grove]

i can but im a bit young

[trim matrix]

lol well its ok

[gentle urchin]

😂

[trim matrix]

?

[gentle urchin]

Is it colliding on spawn?

Also, whats that ref?

[trim matrix]

eh

[gentle urchin]

Bulletref?

[trim matrix]

yh

[gentle urchin]

I hope thats not a bullet ref

[trim matrix]

...it is?...

[gentle urchin]

And more of a scene component for bullet spawnpoint

[trim matrix]

mayb its this?

[gentle urchin]

Well part of it

Player wont have enemy tag

So bullet will destroy itself

Check if this is triggered

By adding a print string on event hit

[trim matrix]

how wont it?

[bronze hill]

Hello i saw something during studying, isn't it should use ForEachloop for perform array element's function? but it plug array to target pin. how can i do that?

i want execute function of element for every elements in array like that

In general, I used ForEachloop for simple things. like set values

[gentle urchin]

Just use regulal foreachloop

[bronze hill]

but it seems much more simple so i wonder that i can do too

[gentle urchin]

Gives you less control

Usually not desireable

[bronze hill]

thank you for your advice!

[gentle urchin]

but if you reallly really want to , find the function, and plug the array directly in

you cant find the function from the array context, but you can work your way backwards, or turn off context sensitive to find the function in question

[bronze hill]

ah thank you! but when i try this It is said that it does not fit

[gentle urchin]

Old engine version?

[bronze hill]

i will try your way and find out

no it's latest version 5.0

[trim matrix]

guys wtf help me luk what happend

how do i ffix

[gentle urchin]

"Window" tab up there on the bar

[bronze hill]

thank you squize!

[trim matrix]

what do i click in window tab

[gentle urchin]

what you want to show

this is default I think

[trim matrix]

ill click all of them

wait i want it to show this sorta thinggy

but i cant figure it out

[trim matrix]

this i s what i want to show

[gentle urchin]

so add those?

[trim matrix]

i cant find it though..

[gentle urchin]

restart 🙂

[trim matrix]

bet

🙂

[trim matrix]

Im not sure, if the problem is something specific to destructable meshes I could not help you, if the problem is something wrong with the code I could. Maybe screenshot the code of the stump spawning?

im back with some lunch

[minor wolf]

how does meta = (Categories = "x.y.z") translate to a blueprint Gameplay Tag variable?

[trim matrix]

idkgud question

[open latch]

got it solved , an article from 2014 explained it

[vernal grove]

Hello,
I have query How to make character rotate to side way or backward when moving side ways or backward respectively ?

[lapis inlet]

Can anyone help me with figuring out the players mouse angle in respect to a central player controlled actor?

I want to click and make the player move in its direction by applying a force towards that angle

ATM I literally only have this to detect the cursors position

[mellow folio]

Try get mouse world position

[pulsar kraken]

hi all, regarding patching system, youtube videos show upload and download from local server ( maybe setting in same PC) but how to upload pak files like amazon or google and download from there ? as applying the pak file is all how we code and requirement, but how to download from server ?

[mellow folio]

It’s not an exec

[lapis inlet]

doesn't exist, do you mean mouse position on platform?

[mellow folio]

It needs to originate from a player controller

[lapis inlet]

Yea I have the player controller

[mellow folio]

I don’t remember what it’s called I’m not at my computer but it will give you a vector location and a vector direction

Type in getmouse and peruse the options

Like I said, it is not an executable so don’t search for Blue nodes

[storm vigil]

Hi. does anyone prefer using rootmotion for FPS with bodyawareness to drive the speed of their character or the locomotion itself? I prefer it as the movement and animations are in sync with the ground, so I am kinda using the blendspace for movement on the x and y axis.

[mellow folio]

Most games do not use root motion for first person shooters, It locks the players into animations so they don’t have as much freedom as they would normally expect. Using route motion needs to be a conscious choice that you do for a good reason

[storm vigil]

I see but the rootmotion is only on the lower legs as the upper body is using a separate animation for the FPS, it just blended by bone on the spine, so they kinda merged when the shadows shows up, but FPS animations is separate and not affected by the rootmotion of the lomoction of the lower leg. I tried doing this as it was kinda cumbersome for me to set the right speed and animation to prevent the sliding of the foot. hehe

It kinda looks more natural to me at least I wont go overboard or under on the animation syncing with the ground, IMO hehe

[azure jackal]

how I can make shadow distance
For example, there is option that you can set Render distance for lights and if you are more far away from light it will dissapear
I want to make something simillar but with casting shadows for my lamps

[mellow folio]

You want to research Inverse Kinematics

Look on the marketplace for the Advanced Locomotion system

Most players don’t mind if the feet don’t match the ground perfectly,But if it is important to you, you probably want the advanced Locomotion system

[storm vigil]

You mean foot IK, i do have implemented it. For ALS, i choose not to use it as I might make my lomoction more complex, the animations of leaning and all might not fit my FPS/tactical horror game. hehe But it looks good on TPS though. hehe

[open latch]

this is so weird

[acoustic lava]

I got a problem at #graphics if anyone knows anything about PHAT, Physical assets

[trim matrix]

ayo lads help meh

can yall tell me this error

...

heres my bp

[earnest tangle]

Look at your exec pins

You have connected the top exec pin on MoveTo into ChasePlayer, which means it will immediately call this again, then again, and again...

[trim matrix]

so dont do that?

[earnest tangle]

If you don't want an infinite loop :)

[trim matrix]

ok

ayo @thin panther

wassup

[thin panther]

Aaaaa you saw me

[trim matrix]

yh..

[thin panther]

I must return to hiding

[trim matrix]

why?

[thin panther]

Idk

[jaunty dome]

this does not return lights that are components in a blueprint actor

[trim matrix]

omg the ai so f*cking fast

[jaunty dome]

how can I get ALL light sources including those that are components

[thin panther]

Get all components of class

Is probs what you want

[trim matrix]

i need to figure out how to slow the AI down..

[jaunty dome]

but i want to get all lights, whether they're an actor on themselves or a component

[maiden wadi]

GetAllActorsOfClass(Actor), loop over those and call GetAllComponentsOfClass(LightType)

[thin panther]

Change its max walk speed in the movement component

[maiden wadi]

All components exist in an actor, they cannot exist without one.

[trim matrix]

i did

i slowed it down already

the mamx walk sped was 600 😮

now its 200

[trim matrix]

no

wrong

sight

sigh

[thin panther]

Ye thats the same speed as the player by default

[trim matrix]

no

270 is default

[maiden wadi]

On each actor

[trim matrix]

oh crap thats for mine lol

[jaunty dome]

I disabled context sensitive, the node "GetAllComponentsOfClass" doesn't exist in UE

[jaunty dome]

GetComponentsByClass is the correct one

that will be expensive to use on all actors of the world

[maiden wadi]

Expensive is a relative idea.

[mental trellis]

Why not get all actors of type point light?

Unless you're adding point lights to random actors

And then it might be better to use child actors so you can still iterate over point light actors 😛

[maiden wadi]

Ew. Child Actors. 😦

I wouldn't really worry about the performance cost til you need to. Really depends on what you're trying to do with the lights and if you're spawning new ones. Could cache the array. In C++, there is a delegate for actor creation that would let you keep an updated array very simply in a subsystem.

If it's a one time call for like daytime change once every fifteen minutes, performance isn't a huge deal. The minor frame drop fix is polishing. If you're doing something on tick, there's probably a better way to handle it like a child class of lights that register to a manager.

[trim matrix]

thats odd...

when i click reload buttern {r} its goes to -30 / 0 then when i shoot it instantly goes to 0 / 0

pls help

idek but i think this is issue but?

[fiery knoll]

What's the value of 'Ammo' before reloading?

[trim matrix]

let me have a look

60

[fiery knoll]

Try using breakpoints to see the temporary values in your reloading function. That'll show you if it's behaving as intended.

[trim matrix]

then current mag is 31

[trim matrix]

u make brain hurt i have 3 brain sells can you mayb simpli?

[fiery knoll]

OK, so Current Mag in the end = Ammo - TempAmmo + CurrentMag
which filled in with your values = 0 - 60 + 31 = -29
Next time you shoot Current Mag = Clamped value of (CurrentMag - 1) between 0 and 30
= Clamped value of -30 = 0

[trim matrix]

just realised

do i need that?

@fiery knoll ^^^

[fiery knoll]

I don't understand your last question. Do you need what?

[trim matrix]

do i need to add a variable for temp ammo?

[fiery knoll]

Looking at your screenshot it seems you already have one:
It probably is a local variable in your reload function.

So you'll only see it listed when editing that function

[trim matrix]

yh its a local variable

do i promote it to a variable though or leave it?

[fiery knoll]

Depends: do you need it outside your function?

[trim matrix]

probably

aweee shit i fixed it

wait no when its get to 0 ammo it goes to -1 when i click r

ughhh

OMG

i fixed it

😄

[trim matrix]

i had to remove the variable and

see

[open crypt]

I'm looping through an enum, using the value to create menus (specifically I'm recreating a structure based on that new enum, and then pulling the data out on the widget to set the text)

The values were all returning the first enum, even though I was looping through - however, when I set a print string, it showed the correct enum values and created the menus perfectly - what is going on?

[fiery knoll]

Could have something to do with using a deprecated type?

[celest sphinx]

hey, so, i think i have setup my animation blueprint wrong as the character does not use the crouch idle animation i added to the blendspace, but instead just uses the normal idle animation when the player is crouching. once the player starts to move the crouching animation is played normally

[fiery ridge]

How can I use the percentage from "text" for a bool gate?

I'm trying to extract the number from text but not sure if it's possible

[trim matrix]

@fiery knoll

i need help

[lapis inlet]

Alright so

I have a gamemode that gathers all actors with a certain tag, compiles their relative weight, and then calculates a consistent, gravitational force for all other actors to be drawn to that specific one

Issue is, I cannot delete any actors while the game is still running with the current setup, as the array still thinks the actor is there

I am currently trying to figure out how to tell the array to delete the actor from its reference during certain events, IE, when an actor collides with another actor

But, I am not smart, so I need massive help with this, cheers

[trim matrix]

other acter >> object?

link them mayb?

[lapis inlet]

And then find it in the array?

[trim matrix]

yh

[lapis inlet]

Like this?

[trim matrix]

try it

[lapis inlet]

Doesn't work

[trim matrix]

oh

sad

[lapis inlet]

I have two-three weeks to do this and I'm barely managing this alongside two other projects...

All for Uni

[dark crow]

Is MainGameBase a GameMode?

[trim matrix]

guys i need help

for my gun

when i shoot

it hits the ai and itkilled it but the bullet doesnt show

when it comem outs the gun

[lapis inlet]

Yep

I did say

[trim matrix]

pls someone help meh

[peak summit]

can sphere overlap actors cause collision? not sure why this is happening sometimes.. most of the time it's fine

[dark crow]

Plug into Object

Get GameMode

There's a node to get the gamemode

[lapis inlet]

I don't follow

[dark crow]

Search Get GameMode

Right click and search

[lapis inlet]

ooooooh

Now, how do I go get the gamemodes actor array, find the specific actor that is colliding with another, and delete it from not just the game, but the array as well?

[trim matrix]

?please help meh

[dark crow]

You can still keep the cast like you had

[trim matrix]

when i shhoot no bullet comes out

[dark crow]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/221798862938046464/964181828154064906/unknown.png

This looked okay but Remove from the Actors Array instead

[lapis inlet]

Where do I connect the "Get game mode" node?

[trim matrix]

nice models

[dark crow]

Object

[lapis inlet]

kk

[peak summit]

lol its mixamo

[trim matrix]

the anims?
or models?

[peak summit]

everything

just prototyping

[trim matrix]

ohhh

waaait sec is mixamo anims free?

[peak summit]

you may have to credit them or something

[lapis inlet]

This is what I have, and it still wont remove the cases in the arrays

Born to code, forced to debug

[dark crow]

If you Remove stuff from the Array and reference it somewhere for usage, it's gonna return None in that place

Cause well, you removed it

So gotta check if it's valid in those places before doing anything

[lapis inlet]

I'll admit, im very inexperienced with this and being severely challenged in progression

I would love if you could help me with doing this

[dawn quarry]

what does your "bullet ref" represents? its hard without knowing the big picture but i'd expect you'd use a socket attached to a gun or something to decide where your bullets come off

[cobalt gulch]

How can I replace an image when I click on a button within a widget

[dawn gazelle]

These errors aren't related to the code you've shown.

[lapis inlet]

I'll pull up the gamemode blueprints too

[fiery knoll]

When looping through your arraystore al the indices of the items you want to remove in a secondary array. Then when you're done doing your first loop start a second loop through this new array of indices and remove the items from your original array by index:

[dawn gazelle]

Doesn't look like it has anything to do with these either. The errors are coming about where you're attempting to Get an array item (not while in a loop)

[cobalt gulch]

How can I replace an image when I click on a button within a widget

[lapis inlet]

Could be this then

Again, inexperienced

[dark crow]

😟

[trim matrix]

yay my favourite thing to do an aim offset

guys how do i add another camera for aiming?

[open crypt]

is there like a "super soft" reference that you can pass in as an input to an actor (when spawning) and then cast from that input to the correct actor, from the blueprint itself?

[robust kelp]

ok so probably a dumb newbie question.. casting bad i get it.. blueprint interface ok.. so i have 1 blueprint interface hooked up.. however the game has created 3 copys of actor(interface is on) shopkeeper.. how do i talk to shopkeeper 3 not 2.. looking more procedural.. atm i have actor(actorName_interface), actor2(actor2_interface).. actor 2 and 1 are exact same.. however in game i want them to act seperate of each other? im i going about this wrong?

[gentle urchin]

Casting is ok, and it sounds like you're going about it wrong

[smoky robin]

Hey y'all, I'm a noob with Blueprints. I'm looking to make a very simple Hierarchical Instanced Mesh array. I just gotta repeat this mesh a bunch of times with a consistent offset to make a long aqueduct. All the Google tutorials I found are a bit overly complex. Any one want to point me to how I can just kick out a blueprint of an array with a consistently increasing offset on say the x-axis?

[maiden wadi]

Honestly, for an aqueduct, I'd consider going more in the direction of a spline mesh setup.

[smoky robin]

Nice! I'm leveraging nanite, but I assume that splines are using instances as well?

[maiden wadi]

I'm not as familiar with the inner workings of spline meshes performance wise. They can't be too bad since people use them a ton for stuff like power lines, roads, paths, etc.

[trim matrix]

today i have been working on my project for 7-8 hours ill take a brake til llater

cyall

[slow pewter]

and what was to Complex?, cant see anything complex out there

[slow pewter]

Welcome in the World of Gamedev xD

[smoky robin]

I think the spline mesh is a good call, I'll try this direction. Thanks!
https://youtu.be/ulb4escy8Yw?t=333

[smoky robin]

Most of the stuff I found was arrays for like grids with randomized rotation and whatnot

[trim matrix]

i just realised smthing on how to fix my gun#

nah wont work

might just remake the shoot system

[slow pewter]

but wheres the Problem? , i only see Straight Geometry on that, so why not an For Loop and than Spawn Instanced Meshes? , on Construction script?

Would be the Basic of something like this

[smoky robin]

Well, the problem is my own ignorance, as I'm a noob at blueprints and need some real handholding. But I'll look into that, thanks

[hexed glade]

Can you cast to a character from the animation blueprint? Been trying for a while now, but no matter what object reference I've put into the "cast to" so far, it always fails.

[trim matrix]

i fixed my aim offset 😄

[slow pewter]

u mean from Character to Anim BP?

[hexed glade]

nope, that works just fine. Though the other way around seems to be a bit trickier.
Actually on looking through my blueprint, I can do it with an anim notify event in front.

[slow pewter]

So i dont see a problem there, because u already can Communicate just , send their Self reference?

[cobalt gulch]

When using the save game variables, is there a way to save the game every time an action is made, I would like this because for example if the player lost money during a mission, i wouldnt want them to quit the game and get their money back by cheating

[slow pewter]

U can Create an Custom Save Event, and Calls ot on any Important Action

[trim matrix]

Hello, where would you recommend defining actions in the new enhanced input system? I don't want to put every action implementation into single file

[blissful grail]

Yes, you can. If it isn't working, you're doing something wrong. Show code.

[slender garnet]

Anybody know if there's a way to add a new node with Spacebar instead of Right Click? I want to match other graph software, I keep hitting Space

[hearty sequoia]

Anyone know why this code dosnt spawn an emitter

[swift kestrel]

Your destroying the actor before you spawn the emitter

[hearty sequoia]

Still dosnt work even if i switch them around or remove the destorying node

[blissful grail]

Not sure - could check the shortcut keys by going to either project settings or editor settings

[swift kestrel]

Ah your using Spawn emitter attached which means you need to pass in a component for it to attach to. If you just want it to spawn at a location use spawn emitter at location.

[hearty sequoia]

ah thank you!

[trim matrix]

is the node "Ignore Actor When Moving" still exist?

[rotund marlin]

How difficult would it be to setup so mic is sent in-game thru blueprints?

[hexed glade]

Here is the current setup. I've got a question though as the character reference is used for a "blend poses by bool". Will there be a conflict if multiple actors are using the same animation blueprint?

[maiden wadi]

Pretty easy with a $100 plugin I imagine.

[blissful grail]

If the multiple actors are not of type TopDownCharacter - yes.

[rotund marlin]

Without plugin i was thinking authaer

[paper gate]

Not able to click , i create a actor with in which i add widget

[faint pasture]

There's some built-in stuff for that, dig around in the Plugins list in engine.

No promises that it'll work, but you can check out what's available

[hexed glade]

They are all of the topdowncharacter type. So even though two or more characters activate the same animation, they will get the variable from their own character?

[blissful grail]

Yes

[trim matrix]

guys how do i make a working shoot i just cant do it lol

[hexed glade]

Okay then as far as I can tell, the casting works just fine for the character controlled by the player, but not for any character controlled by the AI.

[brazen pike]

linetrace

[trim matrix]

yh that would be fun if i knew how to use it

[blissful grail]

Put print statements in the cast failed execution path. Double check to make sure the AI characters are the right type.

[dawn quarry]

it seems to prefill the search bar with whatever you used as shortcut including space... but at least it works

[brazen pike]

The start point is the player character's camera (if it's first person). Then for the end point you want to get a forward vector of the camera, multiplied by (distance you want the bullet to travel, probably 99999) + the start location.

like this

its very simple. There are hundreds of youtube tutorials

[slender garnet]

Awesome, it works. Thank you!

[hexed glade]

Was my mistake there yes. Though I made a child character with all, but realized the AI characters were duplicated.

[stray wren]

hi im trying to update the movement for my drone enemy and I would like it to tilt when it moves left and right to represent how a drone would move in real life. just wondering how i should go about that. here's the blueprint for the movement so far. https://blueprintue.com/blueprint/hs2dufch/

[hearty sequoia]

Anyone got ideas why force isnt being applied

ive tried to search on google but got no results

[mental trellis]

Is cube the root component? Shrug

[cobalt gulch]

Why does this script not show anything in the text?

[barren belfry]

Hello! Does an array automcatically "rebuild" itself when an item is removed or do you have to do that manually?

[blissful grail]

1. It's not getting called
2. The cast is not correct

[mental trellis]

If you use Remove At, it will shift down every item above that by 1

[barren belfry]

Amazing, thanks!

[mental trellis]

If you don't care about ordering, use Remote At Swap

[barren belfry]

But will it also change the array size?

[mental trellis]

Instead of shfiting them all down by one, it will just move the one in last place to the one you removed and delete the last element.

It will.

[barren belfry]

I do not get the option "remove at", instead I have "remove index". Is it the same?

[mental trellis]

Yeah, that'll be it.

[barren belfry]

I care about the ordering, so Ill stick to that one then

Great, thanks!

[hearty sequoia]

im not sure im new to this lol

[cobalt gulch]

I don't understand

[barren belfry]

As a side note, you can just multiply a Vector with a float (in your case 100). As for why it doesnt work, make sure "Simulate Physics" is enalbed

[hearty sequoia]

ah ok thank you

[mental trellis]

Cube is not the root component

[hearty sequoia]

is there a way to make it the root?

[mental trellis]

Drag it on top of the "default scene root." This may not be required. Make sure physics is on first.

[barren belfry]

You can drag it onto the top object in the hierarchy

[austere ingot]

can you apply replication graph settings to strictly blueprint actors?

[radiant mural]

I have: a fully functional TopDown point and click control system, including WASD TopDown control.
I want: To be able to hold the right mouse button and move the camera as if it is in 3rd person (style)
But, while in TopDown click, also WASD TopDown control, mode I have the camera Lag to follow from behind. So, When i release the Right Mouse button, I want the camera to hold the Pitch, but allow the Yaw to lag back to behind the player. I have been trying the route of when i press the right mouse button 'inherit pawn control rotation', But this is not really working. Does anyone know of a reference for this type of control?

[steady night]

https://gyazo.com/e3879a231ca26410df0e52e4cbb67714

hey guys i have a basic "sprinting" system but im having some issues with the annimation relating to it

isent there a "current speed" and a "maximum speed" that i should be referensing to instead ?

[radiant mural]

That is technically correct as a way to make it sprint. The animationthat match are controlled elsewhere

[steady night]

well yeah but im chaning thje "max" value and im my blendsace ive got a max value already so it cant determan what the value is correctly :/ ?

like in my blendspace ive got "speed" variable

[trim matrix]

guys i need help

i was makin my animation and

when i go to click key and then apply it wont work

[blissful grail]

Which part?

[mental trellis]

That might be because those buttons are disabled.

[trim matrix]

hoow do i enable them?

[paper gate]

.

[radiant mural]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-u-KQ5kLauk Unreal Engine 4 Tutorial - Animation Pt.4 Sprinting Maybe that will help

[solid nexus]

Hey ya'll - I have tracking data coming in from a Kinect but the numbers are very erratic and 'jittery'. I'm looking for a way to smooth the data, or average it out I suppose. Could anyone recommend a method? It seems like 'Weighted Moving Average Float' might be the right node but I'm unsure how to use it properly.

[trim matrix]

breh been doing animations for nrly 2 hours lol

@shy patrol have you seen my dad recently?

[shy patrol]

Trying to make a blueprint that finds a character once they are spawned into the world and checks to find a Boolean that then activates something on a separate blueprint. It works right now, but gives me error notifications. If anyone knows a way to fix it or a better way to go about this, it would help a ton. Images attached.

[steady night]

https://gyazo.com/2aee6271fd7f608b4acb9112e52048d3

when casting to a Animation Blueprint what would be the object then :/ ?

im just setting a variable in the animation bp thats what im after

[radiant mural]

IDK, but there is a specific room about Animation. Not sure if that room may provide more answers or not

https://discord.com/channels/187217643009212416/221798806713401345

[dawn quarry]

try get anim instance node from your skeletal mesh

[steady night]

aye it worked @dawn quarry ty

hm how would i make the animation only go from the waist up

i mean so i can still "run" while attacking in this case

[dawn quarry]

you'll have to use additive animation, it's been long time since I used it but I remember doing it in the anim blueprint via weight or something

there should be a lot of documentation about it

https://docs.unrealengine.com/4.27/en-US/AnimatingObjects/SkeletalMeshAnimation/AnimHowTo/AdditiveAnimations/

I think that's what I used as bootstrap

[steady night]

ah right ty ill look into that!

[charred berry]

anyone know why the cable ( with weird end instead of 'sphere') was changed in ue5 ? No info at docs for ue5 other than simplistic functions,,trying to make cable but its very different it seems in ue5 release

[keen nymph]

I'm having a weird issue in ue4.26

Door blueprint

I'm foreachloop attaching an array of actors to a static mesh component I use as axis location then rotate/move that axis mesh component to move the attached actors.

Problem is it doesn't seem to work with static meshes. aren't static meshes supposed to be actors?

I tried putting the static mesh inside a blueprint and it attaches, if I move the axis component in the editor, the attached mesh moves with it but at run time it's acting as though nothing is attached. really weird.

[trim matrix]

Anyone know how to make like a flying thing?

[fierce birch]

Is it possible for a particle to deal damage? The way that I see a lot of people do it is attaching a mesh and scaling it to fit the dimensions of the particle system but is there a way to get the same result without doing that. I know how I can add collisions in Niagara but not sure how to deal damage

[trim matrix]

Yes it’s possible

Can’t you add like a pain volume to it?

To deal a certain amount of damage

?

[fierce birch]

I was trying to see particles themselves can apply the damage

[trim matrix]

Oh

Hm

Maybe

Test for a hit and apply damage by using a line trace and spawn te particsal affect while firing the beam will just be visual

Read that of Reddit

Does that help?

How do I add a flying thing guys?

[spark steppe]

your code is assuming that GetActorOfClass always returns a valid result, which isn't true

put an isValid check in there and only do stuff on the character reference if it is valid

[shy patrol]

yep, that was it, totally forgot about the "is valid" thing, thank you!

[graceful trench]

I have a question. I have a UE4 asset for AI traffic that uses a non-nav-mesh method, and uses AI Behavior Trees instead. Works great. But I am curious if UE5 has a new and more useful way of controlling cars via AI. Without needing Nav Mesh. Basically, what is the best way to use the new Chaos Vehicle system and AI controlling the cars? Thanks!
This is the asset I've created - https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/product/arch-vis-ai-traffic-system

Perhaps Behavior Trees would still be my best choice?

Does it now? I'll have a look at that. Thanks for mentioning it.

Yes, I've seen the Matrix example being used, but I assumed the vehicles were all scripted for the game. Not dynamic with AI Logic. Downloading now to test it out.

[spark steppe]

they are dynamic

but prepare to get into some complex stuff, which for the c++ part is subject to change (at least there was quite some patching involved to get citysample compile on 5.1)

[graceful trench]

Should be interesting to see.

[spark steppe]

specially the MassAI stuff seems to be heavily worked on

[trim matrix]

I can't see PS4 section in ActionMapping menu, I want to use Share button. Any idea?

[faint pasture]

That's all sorts of fucked up. Why not just have 12stringcharacter trigger whatever you're triggering?

But anyway, first of all, you don't need tick to do what you're doing. Trigger it on begin play

2nd, you need a case for when 12stringchracter doesn't exist, that's what's causing your errors

[cyan swan]

is it possible for an single input pin to be connected to multiple output pins (execution pins excluded)?

[spark steppe]

depends on the node

[cyan swan]

do you have an example of node that allows multiple inputs in the same pin?

[spark steppe]

usually you can have multiple target connections for example (thinking about it, it may only work on the target pin)

[cyan swan]

yes, for output pins it makes sense the result can be used in multiple places - but for inputs, I wonder what would be the expected behavior, theoretically

[spark steppe]

with the multiple targets it would just run the node several times, once for each target

[faint pasture]

Do node to all inputs.

IDK what the order would be, don't rely on it prolly

[rotund marlin]

If.. https://i.gyazo.com/ef65a3920e570c253b8345d29a0d3cba.png Makes host see clients aiming at 266 angle rather then the minus value.. where did i go wrong ? 😮

[faint pasture]

Yo you can have Try Get Pawn Owner in your graph more than once.

No need to drag the blue spaghetti all over the place

[maiden wadi]

Rotators are converted to uint8 or uint16 values for each axis for networking and reconstructed as floats after. 190 degrees is the same as -170. 355 is the same as -5. This applies for Yaw and Roll as they're 360 degrees. Pitch is only 180 degrees from 0-180 or -90 to 90.

[boreal sigil]

Is it possible to use the ReplicationGraph in blueprints?

[maiden wadi]

You cannot. It's one of the many networking tools you'll need C++ for.

[boreal sigil]

thanks

[obtuse dawn]

so im trying to make a space game and I want to map to be infinite but when I got past a point all the code stops working and I dont know how to fix it

[rotund marlin]

Authaer, so.. how do i solve it 😮

ah fixed it - 360 xd

[dark crow]

Disable world bounds in world settings

[rotund marlin]

Hmm.. so now ive spent about 1-2 hours working on voice, found a guide to follow to setup vo-ip but zero luck still,

and got https://i.gyazo.com/f13a4a2fbd1bd14a3960d2339546bca4.png Setup in character BP not using a PushToTalk, and Volume when listening to voice still remains as 0.0

[obtuse dawn]

it works but now the meshes are shaking

[dark crow]

That's called float precision

""""""fixed"""""" with UE5 by using doubles

[obtuse dawn]

is there a way to fix it in ue4?

[thin panther]

until you use up them other 32 bits heh

[thin panther]

not unless you use world composition, or expand the engine

[dark crow]

Rebasing

[thin panther]

unfortunately you can't just magically add 32 bits to a float

ah yeah rebasing too

[dark crow]

Works only singleplayer tho

Broken in multi iirc

[obtuse dawn]

im making a single player so it works

so how do I do it?

[dark crow]

There was a project around showcasing it iirc

But it was merged into the Engine

I think you gotta manually call the origin or have a logic to move it each time

[potent laurel]

infinite is big

[dark crow]

This was the post

https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/pull-request-world-origin-shifting-in-mp/62649

[viscid hinge]

where is the Wheeled vehicle Class in unreal engine 5 i cant find it

[icy dragon]

UE5 has true 64-bit double floating points, but it's kind of in a weird conondrum right now, as it coexists with single floating point

[thin panther]

thats weird

[icy dragon]

I think I see one having issues doing arithmetic with both single and double floating points in BP, and the confusing naming didn't help either

[thin panther]

bit of a computer science thing that i don't know if you'll know,

is ue5's true doubles just like IEEE 754 standard but larger exponent and mantissa?

[icy dragon]

Haven't check the source code on that, but inclined to think that's the case

[thin panther]

seems like the most sensible way to do it

still susceptible to the whoel floating point imprecision tho

[icy dragon]

At least large enough that you don't have to worry about it practically

[thin panther]

does this mean ue5 supports larger map sizes by default or is it still the 20km max by default?

[dark crow]

float do double is kind of a mess rn and all that

[icy dragon]

Large World Coordinate is enforced, I think

[dark crow]

Saw on the github that they are docing explicit casts even on the Fortnite branch

[thin panther]

ohhh that's kinda nice

[thin panther]

ye i imagine

[icy dragon]

Though IIRC the limit right now was around 80M km

[dark crow]

Basically FVector(Fvector3f variabletype)

Saw them do that :'D

[odd ember]

yeah I don't think there's any standard being implemented by default in cpp20

it's just 8 bytes

[icy dragon]

Theoretically it should go up to billions of kilometers if LWC fully covers 2FP

[cursive ibex]

Hello folks, need some help. Might seem too easy for the experts here but I'm trying to create an in-world scoreboard. It's for a VR project and I keep failing unfortunately. I need the score to update on collision. The collisions work just fine and I can see my log messages stating that it registers the collision.

[dark crow]

What's the scoreboard in this case, just an actor?

[cursive ibex]

Yeah, it's an actor

[potent laurel]

i would suggest storing the collision scores in playerstate class

then using the scoreboard to read from that

[dark crow]

If it's a team global score then GameState

[potent laurel]

yeah

[cursive ibex]

That seems beyond my abilities lol Let me try looking it up

[potent laurel]

is it team score?

[cursive ibex]

No, just an updating score of player's hits

It's a VR archery game

[dark crow]

Well, it can technically be done multiple ways, depends on what exactly you trying to achieve

If it needs to save too

etc etc

Cause you could even have a hard link between scoreboard and goals and have the scoreboard as a manager

[cursive ibex]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GrycMDKPRVs
I was using this tutorial until it completely failed because he's colliding the bowling pins with the floor and the floor has the UI actor in it

[dark crow]

If they're always present

[cursive ibex]

I don't need it to save. Just increment on each hit.

[potent laurel]

can you show me how you see the collision works fine

like umm do you have an event triggered for that

[cursive ibex]

Okay, so I'm not in my lab right now (where my project and files are) but Its basically on component hit (of the target) casting to the arrow and I put in a simple print to log if the collision works

[potent laurel]

ok so you have a class setup for the arrow thats good

[wild laurel]

hey guys need a little help with projectile logic. Im doing a simple line trace using this code but the video shows the issue of the linetrace (black line) going all over the place when im moving. The odd part is the decal spawn (sparks) are correct even while moving, just the important line trace which is what causes the actual damage is wrong. Very odd because I have them coded as the same location. Any ideas?

[cursive ibex]

I'm sorry to have made this harder by not having my files to show 😐

[cursive ibex]

I can't help but this looks cool 🙂

[potent laurel]

@cursive ibex then

[cursive ibex]

I cast to the other object (my arrow projectile BP)

[potent laurel]

yeah

then

[wild laurel]

thx been workin on for over a year and a half lol >.< just lots of irritating bugs to work through at this point

[cursive ibex]

which had a sphere collider at its tip

And just a small question on top of this, I should be able to replicate this on any FPS game too right? The same logic?

[potent laurel]

something like that

[cursive ibex]

ohhhhhh

[potent laurel]

then it will increase the score variable in player state by 1 each hit

[cursive ibex]

The other actor goes to the target

[potent laurel]

the other actor is the arrow

[cursive ibex]

I had all of this except that I couldn't figure out how to update the UI actor

[potent laurel]

ok then in the UI

[wild laurel]

OMG IT WORKS

i dont even kno wat i changed

[cursive ibex]

I mean obviously didn't have it exactly like this. I had the update logic from the tutorial but it failed because of different collision logic. Let me try this out on generic FPS game

[potent laurel]

2 secs

[cursive ibex]

No worries, take your time

[potent laurel]

at a lan festival and someone started asking questions lol

so yeah is your UI done with widgets?

[cursive ibex]

Everyone's lost

[cursive ibex]

I'm trying to recreate the situation in the FPS demo template

[potent laurel]

have you figured the correct wisget you want the score to update to?

[cursive ibex]

In my original files, I had made an actor that just had a text component to it

How the updated score would reflect on that actor is something I have no clue about

[potent laurel]

ok so like an in world score board

[cursive ibex]

exactly

[potent laurel]

ok for that actor, open it as a blueprint

then there is a few ways to update it

is the game multiplayer or offline?

[cursive ibex]

offline. It's for a research paper experiment so highly controlled offline game

There are very few variables

[potent laurel]

what are the variables?

[cursive ibex]

Just some audio in the background that will be changing from the control group

[potent laurel]

ok, anything else?

e.g time related

[cursive ibex]

Yeah, there's going to be a timer that counts down from 60 seconds

I just assumed that once I have the scoreboard ready, I'd get that done faster but not meant to be

Am I doing something wrong here? Why won't it print?

[potent laurel]

do you get a hello print

[cursive ibex]

nope

[potent laurel]

ok so its the ceiling lamp

[cursive ibex]

Yeah

[potent laurel]

do this

and check what it prints

and if it prints

[cursive ibex]

Where do I get the staticmeshcomponent

[potent laurel]

ignore that part

do it from the one you screenshotted

[cursive ibex]

Alright

[potent laurel]

the get display name part will auto do

[cursive ibex]

alright

It wasn't compiling with the displayName part

oh nvm I was idiotic. I was writing the node out

[potent laurel]

lol

[cursive ibex]

Okay I have this

Doesn't print anything

[potent laurel]

ok so that means the static mesh doesnt have the right collision settings, or the arrow either

[thin panther]

does either object have simulation generates hit events?

thats a tickbox thats needed

for event hit

[cursive ibex]

The arrow was printing. I'm failing at this now lol

[cursive ibex]

Checking

[potent laurel]

your not man trust me, we all gone through this lol

[cursive ibex]

xD

[cursive ibex]

Checked this on both now

[thin panther]

try now

[cursive ibex]

Although I remember not doing and the print logging my hellos on each hit.

Tried, no go

[thin panther]

drag off cast failed and pritn a different string

[potent laurel]

^ should have done that to start with

i seem to always take the long route lol

[thin panther]

lol

[cursive ibex]

Hmm, alright. Putting the cast projectile thing back on

nothing printing at all

[potent laurel]

so the collision is 100% not working

[potent laurel]

can you screenshot this

with the lamp mesh highlighted in components

[cursive ibex]

sec

Weird part is I can see the collision happening

I set the collision box to be way bigger and the ball is clearly hitting it

[potent laurel]

oh

you have a collision box

can you screenshot your component list

[cursive ibex]

works now

after removing box

wtf -_-

[potent laurel]

lol

[cursive ibex]

I thought collision boxes were meant for collision stuff

[potent laurel]

they are

but the mesh can also register a hit

[cursive ibex]

What if I wanted only a certain area hit to count as a hit? Then a box?

[potent laurel]

i think your box was getting in the way

then you would do this instead

[cursive ibex]

Yeah, maybe I should've done hit with the box for it work?

[potent laurel]

yup

[cursive ibex]

yeah

I did try with overlap

begin overlap of the box

didn't work

[potent laurel]

it wont if the collision settings dont allow the arrow to overlap, iirc

like it gets hit

not overlapped

[cursive ibex]

But my collision settings say generate overlap events

even then?

[potent laurel]

yeah but the arrow isnt allowed to overlap (go through) the box with the current collision preset

[cursive ibex]

Damn, thats right. I'll check in my lab tomorrow if removing the box collider changes anything

I still don't understand how to reflect the score onto the actor

[potent laurel]

One step at a time bro

[scenic kindle]

how do i make my actor ignore only player collisions? but still detect overlap events.

(physics enabled)

[icy dragon]

Collision channels.

[scenic kindle]

but what specifically. I just want my character to be able to move through it but the actor doesn't fall through the floor.

[thin panther]

yeah

custom collision channels

make one for your player

[scenic kindle]

yes but which channels specifically

[thin panther]

you make one

look into custom collision channels

that way you can set your player to one, and have the objects ignore the player only

with some googling and looking at documentation you should have that done fairly quick

[scenic kindle]

ok thanks for pointing me in the right direction

[thin panther]

no problem

i dont like just giving the exact answers cause that doesnt help ya in the long run

feel free to ping me if you still dont get it tho

[scenic kindle]

nah it's fine. if there's one thing a game dev can do it's figure it out

[thin panther]

thats an attitude i like to see :)

[scenic kindle]

YES i got it working. thanks a lot. now i actually know how to work with collisions.

[thin panther]

no problem :)

[cursive ibex]

Can someone help me out with my scoreboard thing? Still struggling

The top part works fine, but I need to update the UI actor here to increment score

On each successful collision (Lamp ceiling and projectile)