blueprint

[trim matrix]

thank you mako

[unique harness]

pretty much everything imo

[trim matrix]

answer i can understand :d

[mental trellis]

Well, you can access bp vars and funcs, it's just not straight forward... or advised at all.

[dire frost]

yeah bps was meant for testing something quickly before you make it in c++

[unique harness]

Daekesh always coming in with that answer lmao

[trim matrix]

retrospection can read all, just not intended 😄

[mental trellis]

Hey, I'm just a pedantic arsehole.

[icy dragon]

I guess you can do that if you hate yourself so much

[mental trellis]

Indeed.

[trim matrix]

im not asking if its technically possible 😄

technically get some interupts and wehey

im just lacking alot of info on ue5 😄

[unique harness]

go visit the learn page

[trim matrix]

half of that is ue4

[dire frost]

it's the same stuff really

only difference is the UI is more modern

[trim matrix]

i know, but go to this window, wait that doesnt exist

im used to ue3

not 4 or 5 😄

[unique harness]

so go learn ue4 then switch to ue5 when it actually works

[dire frost]

oh waw you're old lol

[mental trellis]

UE3... UDK?

[trim matrix]

yep

[mental trellis]

Damn.

Welcome to the future, my friend. We no longer travel by horse and cart, we have the motor engine!

[trim matrix]

getting back because of the new features

indeed

reason im back 😄

[dire frost]

i dont think i was alive when UE3 released

when was that?

[trim matrix]

in the long long ago 😄

time when making games ment you knew how to program 😄

memory management and so on

[mental trellis]

However, in November 2009, Epic released a free version of UE3's SDK, called the Unreal Development Kit (UDK), that is available to the general public.

Sometime before that.

Screenshots of Unreal Engine 3 were presented by July 2004

[dire frost]

the year i was born! holy crap

[trim matrix]

says something about my age i guess 😄

[dire frost]

the engine is older than me

[trim matrix]

yeah and used to be shitty as well

pointer hell

[mental trellis]

The first games released using Unreal Engine 3 were Gears of War for Xbox 360, and RoboBlitz for Windows, which were both released on November 7, 2006.

[dire frost]

what do you mean by that?

[trim matrix]

admittedly at that time it was the best

[dire frost]

couldnt you just somepointer != nullptr?

[trim matrix]

i dont even think unity existed at the time

[icy dragon]

Hey, you. You're finally awake.

[trim matrix]

well yeah, does it error on that now 😄

the old days, when you could just f up your game with a single pointer error 😄

[dire frost]

well you can still do that...

[mental trellis]

For reference UE4 development was started in 2003.

[trim matrix]

well yeah, but in those days that was basically the general problem 😄

memory leaks

geez

im old i guess lol

[mental trellis]

How old are you?

[trim matrix]

37 😉

[dire frost]

how old are you if you dont mind me asking?

oh yeah your old in internet years

[mental trellis]

Younger than me. 😛

(38 :/)

[icy dragon]

Dang, I'm 23, just shy of a year after Unreal 1 released

[trim matrix]

when i was young ... 😄

i had 5kb internet 😄

[dire frost]

SAME!

we were poor

[mental trellis]

I remember playing quake on a 14.4. The 4v4v4v4 league was a bitch.

[trim matrix]

no wiki and wait 5 minutes to load the api documentation d:D

for this genereation thats like getting you water at a well 😄

[dire frost]

honestly i can still relate to it rn

[trim matrix]

haha well said

[dire frost]

my internet is so slow sometimes

[mental trellis]

If only I'd have my fibre back then.

[dire frost]

like it sometimes reaches 1000bits/s

not even joking

[trim matrix]

at that time that was alot lol

[mental trellis]

Do you feed the carrier pigeons enough?

[trim matrix]

i think i averaged at 200

page of text, well go do something else

litereally

[mental trellis]

(this is a real thing: https://www.wikiwand.com/en/IP_over_Avian_Carriers)

[icy dragon]

Back in ye olde days where downloading a Doom WAD and editors took forever

[dire frost]

and when the internet is not slow, visual studio is...

[icy dragon]

oh wait, this isn't #nostalgia

[dire frost]

it takes 7 mins on avarage for my code to rebuilt

[trim matrix]

shader recompilation?

[dire frost]

no just my normal cpp stuff

[trim matrix]

7 minutes for cpp compilation?

[dire frost]

yep

to be fair i dont have the recommended specs

[trim matrix]

tf are ytou compiling

[dire frost]

i have like 8 gigs of ram

[trim matrix]

not much, but shouldnt matter

[dire frost]

so that forces vs to only use one core to compile

[trim matrix]

not for compilation

ah

yeah that joke

[mental trellis]

I have... well 16 times that. Is nice.

[dire frost]

?

[trim matrix]

16 core it still compiles on the first only

[dire frost]

vs needs 1.5 gigs of ram to use one core. so if i hade 9 free gigs it will use all 4 of my cpu cores

and will make building WAY shorter

[trim matrix]

so 64 gig should use more than one core right?

[dire frost]

lol yeah

[mental trellis]

You want about 10gb + 2-3gb per core.

[trim matrix]

64 gig ram, still only using one cpu core

baffles me

[dire frost]

?

that shouldnt be possible

[mental trellis]

Is it building with incredibuild?

[trim matrix]

the editor

game runs fine

[mental trellis]

Do you see XGE in your build logs?

[trim matrix]

nope

nope standard build

[mental trellis]

I'd suggest you fix your buildconfiguration.xml file

[trim matrix]

its standard for all projects

[mental trellis]

The build log will also say exactly why it's limiting your cores.

[trim matrix]

since ue5 btw

cou1 runs 100% rest does nothing

[mental trellis]

Win11 by chance?

[trim matrix]

10-11

not running new windows no

[dire frost]

yeah this is an example here:

2>Building 4 actions with 1 process...```

[trim matrix]

yeah use deamon thread

its not the game

its the editor

[mental trellis]

Show us your build log!

[trim matrix]

it refuses to run on multi

game runs fine

[dire frost]

you're building from visual studio, right?

[trim matrix]

running ue with vs code

[unique harness]

bingo

[dire frost]

oh vs code

yeah that makes since lol

[unique harness]

vs code isn't a supported IDE

[mental trellis]

That won't matter.

[trim matrix]

got cs studio as well

[mental trellis]

The build system doesn't care what IDE you're using, it's entirely independent.

[trim matrix]

same thing

[mental trellis]

You could code in notepad for all it cares.

[trim matrix]

might as well use notepad

thats external editor

[mental trellis]

Show us some logs if you want help.

[trim matrix]

yeah when i get back to it lol

basically ue uses one gpu core i have 16 and 4 cpu cores i have 16

[mental trellis]

Ping me if you posted it, I'm off to bed. Night!

[dire frost]

gn

[trim matrix]

have a good one

[dire frost]

so nomennescio, have you worked on any AAA games?

[trim matrix]

not much to post btw, its just gpu 3d and repeats that on a single cpre

yeah

ue5 btw

ue4no probs

[icy dragon]

Maybe he meant AAA games with UE3

[trim matrix]

well aa

not aaa

😄

[dire frost]

oh nice

what are they?

[trim matrix]

well lest just say i got horizon zero dawn for free

ill leave it at that

[dire frost]

ooohhh

wait let me go to google for a sec

[icy dragon]

Well, I get a free copy of HZD from scraps

[trim matrix]

i get alot of free games but generally because i test em

[icy dragon]

Packaging was so lousy, it felt like a pirated copy, but the disc and Frozen Wild code is legit

[trim matrix]

i have a backlog of about 80 games 😄

havent seen frozen wild yet

tbh busy getting different certificates atm

great that its free, but does it help me 😄

Ill test a game for a fellow developer

those guys are a bit known and from the same country

good to see they ramped up after 20 years

[icy dragon]

Did you test for Abandoned?

[dire frost]

i just came back and just realized you meant like a playtester, right?

sorry if i'm being dump, it's 3am here and super tired

[trim matrix]

yeah play testing 😄

80 in the backlog, i do have a dayjob besides it 😄

[dire frost]

oh ok, i thought you like used to be a programmer not a player tester 🙃

[trim matrix]

i was lol

thats where my connections come from

but these days i have to work for my money 😄

on the fork lift in the day, playtesting at night 😄

[unique harness]

why give up programming for fork lift?

[dire frost]

i guess it pays more?

[trim matrix]

financial crisis

not really, its just steady income

or guarunateed

[unique harness]

You're not in US?

[trim matrix]

eu

[unique harness]

ah

[trim matrix]

or nl 😄

i earn about 1500 net

32 hours

not great but its a steady income

used to earn about 4k a month

working now to go up in the company

[dire frost]

good like!

[unique harness]

Move to US and 4x that 4k

[trim matrix]

steady income is okay for now

if i can pay my bills 😄

might actually m,ove to use cause i can earn about 4x thre

but im not poor so ill see where current employment ends

basicaly i dont have to work 😄

[serene bramble]

Why is my packaging failing?

[trim matrix]

well start by runnning it as adminstrator

[unique harness]

The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process

Any other questions?

[dark crow]

What's a error!?

[unique harness]

Do you have your game running while trying to package?

[serene bramble]

No

It built fine once now it won't build

[unique harness]

check processes to see if it's running in background

[trim matrix]

also make sure you quit windows explorer when you uild

[dark crow]

Easiest would be just restarting the PC

¯_(ツ)_/¯

[trim matrix]

jup

[unique harness]

that is definitely not the easiest lmao

[dark crow]

If you have a SSD it is

[trim matrix]

restart

[dire frost]

it's the easiest but most time consuming

[trim matrix]

doesnt matter, error is open process

just restart

[serene bramble]

I've already restarted

Nothing is running

[trim matrix]

some process is hanging

after restart it still hangs?

[serene bramble]

Yeah it just says packaging failed then that error

[trim matrix]

2 options

start in safe mode

make sure everything works

ie you dont have a virs or such

[serene bramble]

I don't

[trim matrix]

of cold bomb, ie stop everything yo9u dont need

[serene bramble]

I tried running in admin to be sure and that didn't work

[dire frost]

but there's something that's trying to open you're games' exe

sounds fishy to me

[trim matrix]

reboot into safemode

[serene bramble]

I opened it in the first build

[trim matrix]

try booting there

[serene bramble]

But I deleted that build

[trim matrix]

if that does work you got issues

ifit doesnt youre pc wont work with it

[serene bramble]

Doesn't explain how it built right the first time, and the fact every other single project I've made builds fine

[trim matrix]

lots of explanations

but tbh to late for that

[icy dragon]

Move the project folder to other drive

[trim matrix]

honoustly make a backup

put it somewehre lse

iniate git porject

project

[serene bramble]

I moved it to my 2nd hdd and built it to my 2nd hdd and that worked

[rough blade]

Is there a way to optimize impact event generation? I noticed it fires of dozens a second when two items are touching and this seems unnecessarily expensive.

[split ginkgo]

What is a box extent?

Is that the entire length of the box

or half of it from the origin?

[rough blade]

size of the box - so if your box extent is 5,5,5 (x,y,z) - your box will be a cube measuring 5 units on each side.

[dire frost]

this one

[zealous moth]

how can I go into free camera mode when i presss play?

[dire frost]

hit event is called in the physics engine unreal uses

[dire frost]

you can detach from the controller pawn by clicking F8

[rough blade]

Does this mean its going to be firing that rapidly no matter what?

[dire frost]

pretty much yeah

unless you are welling to modify the physics yourself

[serene bramble]

Okay another odd thing. In the build of my game my pause menu won't show (the cursor appears and game physically pauses but the UI won't show). But it works in the editor?

[zealous moth]

i am aware but I would like to play in standalone mode and have a spectator pawn to move around

[rough blade]

ha no

[zealous moth]

when i do though, it is a random pawn at 0,0,0

[dire frost]

i guess you can make a listen server with two pawns and detach from the first pawn?

[dire frost]

check the game default map in the project settings

you might be spawning in an empty level

[serene bramble]

It's set to the correct one for sure

I spawn into a 'main menu' one which then loads the correct level. In the editor it works fine, In build the UI won't show is the issue

Game itself seems ok, it pauses and the mouse cursor shows but the actual "pause" widget won't

[dire frost]

that's odd? i dont have a clue what the problem might be

[serene bramble]

Yeah it is

"set game paused" is being called after I set the pause menu's visibility to visible too

And toggle mouse is being called ok anyway

[dire frost]

the fact that the widget works in editor is throwing me off here

[serene bramble]

Yeah, no errors or stuff

[dire frost]

try running the game in standalone mode

see if the problem consists

[serene bramble]

Standalone mode?

[dire frost]

yeah

[serene bramble]

Ohh yeah

Pause menu works fine in standalone

It's just the build that won't work which really is whack

[wise tide]

I can't store the information for some of my settings in the GameUserSettings instance. For example FoV or FPS Counter.

Is there an easy way to add this to GameUserSettings? Or do I need to make my own separate save stuff?

[dire frost]

can you show me the your code before you create your widget?

[serene bramble]

As in the actual create widget code?

Would be this code in the game mode

[dire frost]

can you show me before that?

[serene bramble]

Before would just be this

[dire frost]

can you tell me what type of you widget is the widget pause

[serene bramble]

"UMG.UserWidget" apparently

[dire frost]

this guy right here

[dire frost]

oh ok it's widget blueprint not a userwidget blueprint

apparently userwidget blueprints wont be included in the packaged game

the more you know

[serene bramble]

Interesting

My HUD also isn't showing in the built game either, but shows in the editor, so

(the HUD is the same type as the pause menu)

[dire frost]

try and connect the "owning player" to a "get player controller"

or "get player pawn"

[serene bramble]

No difference

[dire frost]

can you show me what happens before calling the create UI function?

[serene bramble]

Yeah, the "game manager" calls the function

And that init function is run at the start of a level

[dire frost]

i think i found the problem lol

[trim matrix]

So I have an on button clicked event, and when you click it it's meant to run the find sessions event

[dire frost]

i think a level begin play gets called before anything is spawned (including the game mode) so the cast is always false

[trim matrix]

That's my find sessions custom event

[dire frost]

add a delay after the begin play

[serene bramble]

Oohh but it works in the editor still for some reason ig?

[trim matrix]

And that is my create session event

[dire frost]

yeah but the editor have the object already spawned

that's why it wont take as long to load stuff you begin to test stuff in the editor, because everything is already spawned

[serene bramble]

Makes sense

Is there some kind of beginplay event that triggers once stuff is spawned?

[dire frost]

i guess the game mode itself?

[dire frost]

so the find session is not getting called, right?

if that's the case then your not using your custom game instance the cast will fail

@serene bramble did it work?

[trim matrix]

Yea

[trim matrix]

Bu the host game cast works fine

[dire frost]

which also casts to the game instance?

[trim matrix]

Yea

[dire frost]

but the button is pressed, right?

like you can press the button

[serene bramble]

Uh I haven't tried anything yet, not sure what to do

[trim matrix]

Yes

And it creates a game

It's just the find sessions thing

[dire frost]

just move everything after the begin play of the level to the begin play of the gamemode

or add a delay before the begin play of the level but i wouldnt recommend that

[dire frost]

well if the cast isnt failing then i would say the problem is with the button itself

or there's a problem with the join game code

[dire frost]

try adding a breakpoint on join session node

@serene bramble so?

[serene bramble]

Had to jump off for a bit so I'll be trying soon

[dire frost]

it's cool. just ping me when you test the solution out

[plain hull]

Sure. Let me give this a try. Thank you

[unique harness]

did you at least get a chuckle out of my meme?

[plain hull]

Yeah.

[plain hull]

Can we create array of structs without c++

[desert juniper]

yup

the same way you'd create any other variable

[plain hull]

I have 100 + JSON like this

[desert juniper]

jw did you create the structs in CPP?

[winter meadow]

Why does this not work with a keypress but works with Event BeginPlay?

This works

[desert juniper]

Did you set the door actor bp to allow player inputs?

[winter meadow]

Ooo

how do I do that?

[desert juniper]

in the class defaults have it auto receive input by player 0

not sure what that does for multiplayer, but it'll work in singleplayer

[winter meadow]

class defaults...

oh i see

it works now!

[plain hull]

No

[winter meadow]

also how do I make a keystroke toggle?

like I press it once it does one action and I press it again it does another

[trim matrix]

How do I reference an actor that is spawned attached to the player? I made a sword actor spawn attached to the player on begin play and i want to reference that sword with the AnimNotifyState

i dont think this is right

It's attached to the player on begin play/by event, not by default

[lime moat]

Anyone know how to cast to a save game class from a widget? I'm trying to display data from my savegame on my main menu ui, but i'm getting an accessed none error from the failed cast.

[lime moat]

How did you spawn your attached actor? How many will be spawned in your game?

[cosmic kelp]

I just found that this exists, so what i was doing was unnecessary. So unchecking this should allow me to change the value when its focused, instead of when i select it.

[jade prairie]

Hello everyone, I ran into a problem that such a figure got out that does not allow me to move, I am a beginner and I do not know how to remove it. Is there any way to disable it?

[trim matrix]

on begin play

[icy dragon]

Drag out another tab around the area, and put it back once it went somewhere else.

[plain hull]

You are just awesome. Done with the struct part and importing JSON. Kindly let me know how can I import 100 JSON following same struct at once

[remote meteor]

hold on

if you need json

why not use varest plugin

[torpid mulch]

Hey guys, is there any way to rotate the 'Box Overlap' like the debug box?

[warm lava]

Is there a simple way to levitate/hover a player pawn above the ground?

[torpid mulch]

I'm still learning but if your game is physics based you can add constant force on Z, or maybe just line trace the ground to verify where the ground is and add some location (Z) above to it (doesn't use physics, just really changes the location).

[warm lava]

thanks min will try diving into those

[torpid mulch]

If you need any help with it feel free to dm me :)

[lime fulcrum]

https://blueprintue.com/blueprint/o2namr5q/

Shared my first Blueprint 😄

[cyan bone]

Im spawning a character. In the construction script i have it building the height of the character (100), as well as other things like Power:300, Health: 250.

When using the Spawn Actor of Class, how can i change or set these values that are in the construction script, so that my actors spawn with different characteristics?

[icy dragon]

Mark the variable as Expose on Spawn

[cyan bone]

This is how i have it? Should i promote those to variables?

And then expose them?

[icy dragon]

Yes.

[torpid mulch]

(Out of topic quick message) I got Auto-Rig Pro, and yeah it is awesome, thank you again for recommending it.

[hard creek]

How do you limit pitch rotation rate in a first person player? I'm trying to do a stun effect. I can limit yaw rotation rate by unchecking "Pawn: Use Controller Rotation Yaw", checking "Character Movement: Use Controller Desired Rotation", and unchecking "Camera Settings: Use Pawn Control Rotation"

What results is the yaw rotation rate is limited as expected, but now the camera is locked at 0 for pitch, and doesn't respond to input.

[icy dragon]

Try setting the rotation limit through the player camera manager.

[hard creek]

what setting is that called? not finding anything when searching "limit" in Details

[dire frost]

It's called max pitch

Or something like that

[hard creek]

I'm not trying to limit the maximum angle, I'm trying to limit the rotation rate

[icy dragon]

Then set the variable for that.

[dire frost]

Just decrease the sensitivity

[icy dragon]

On stock FP/TP setup, you have turn rate axis multiplied by a variable.

[hard creek]

That's one way to do it, but I don't think it's a proper way. People can just get around that by maxing out their mouse DPI

[icy dragon]

That's on them entirely.

I mean, you can just go with motion sickness inducing vision when stunned. Now that's adding up to the meta 👌

[icy dragon]

But on serious note, you can still have clamp float before adding rotation control

[hard creek]

hmm, didn't think of that, let me see if that'll work

[gentle urchin]

If people want to max their dpi for the purpose of messing up rotation speed, why bother stopping them

Give then what they want 😆

[hard creek]

the game is a single player game so it doesn't matter too much, but if it was a multiplayer I don't think players should be allowed to negate stun effects Lol

[icy dragon]

If one isn't used to high DPI, their aiming can be sloppy

[icy dragon]

Then I shall suggest you to do something different as stun effect.

Don't worry, it's part of game design assembly.

[hard creek]

ok i think just clamping Add Controller Yaw/Pitch Input works perfectly, thanks!

[woven pond]

Is there any documentation or guides on Multiplayer player basics, i get how to cast from the GameMode to the GameState in order to update the PlayerController im more interested in actual examples of wether i should be running an event/function to update say the score in the GM or GS. I'm imaging GS and The Rule that governs scoring is in the GM but id really like some basic info around this and similar best practice. (This could be a confidence thing) but just seen so many different ways of doing it id just like a direction in which and why

[hard creek]

I found this PDF a long while ago when I tried messing around with multiplayer, found it really helpful: https://cedric-neukirchen.net/Downloads/Compendium/UE4_Network_Compendium_by_Cedric_eXi_Neukirchen.pdf

[trim matrix]

Hi everyone! hope you all having great weekend! i have a big one:
do you know how we can read a JSON file NOT at runtime.. but in the constructionScript?

[woven pond]

Thanks but that's not actually helpful in response to this (Im looking for more of a best practice), I already have read this and while it is helpful in terms of explaining the first sentence not quite what im looking for atm

[fleet cedar]

Hey guys. I am trying to do an exploration style game where my character can interact with objects and "leave his body" (i.e. he's third person but will then zoom in to inspect objects, basically Quantic Dream games - Detroit, Beyond Two Souls).

Should I put the interaction trace in another invisible character other than third person or should I do it in the player controller?

Should I move the character's camera off of himself or should I possess other objects? Any advice would be lovely.

[tulip canyon]

execute when paused doesn't work, anyone got any suggestions?

[tawdry surge]

@woven pond Have you gone through the Lyra project to see how they did it?
Its supposed to be a best practices demo

[vagrant flicker]

Hello Guys, can I get a little help when its okay?

I have a very simple drag & drop system that was working perfectly fine on 5.0EA
I've migrated the system to 5.0 and now something very strange happens.

Every time I want to pick up an item from the ground I have to touch it with the character first. The raycast is activated all the time, but the pickup happens only after my character touches the cube

https://imgur.com/a/CF1PUxM

BP: https://blueprintue.com/blueprint/7ug2u7n2/

I am starting to think that the physics handle is buggy or at least I am missing something.

P.S - I've copied the collision presets as well so they are the same as they were before.

[dire frost]

try spawning in another box?

[woven pond]

Yeah I did, but everything I am after seems to be in the Lyrateam subsystem and thats all C++

[icy dragon]

Player Controller is not an Actor anyway.

[tawdry surge]

Multiplayer tends to dip into C++ from time to time..
Might be a good excuse to learn it

[vagrant flicker]

Tried.. Same thing

[dire frost]

can you show us what happens after the trace is successful?

[vagrant flicker]

Yes - before the character hits the cube with his collision the raycast is green, but I cannot lift the cube

The video shows that moment:(

[dire frost]

i meant like can you show us the code lol

[vagrant flicker]

Here is the bp - https://blueprintue.com/blueprint/7ug2u7n2/

[dire frost]

everything seems fine to me...

[vagrant flicker]

Ye me2

That why I am so puzzled

[solemn bramble]

Perhaps the trace is blocked by some collision attached to the Character? That would explain why you have to get very close to the object.

[solemn bramble]

Also, just as an experiment, I'd try using another trace, for example Line Trace.

[dire frost]

no the trace works fine as far as i can tell

[vagrant flicker]

Yes, I've tried to increase the length

Same happens. The trace is fine. :/

[gentle urchin]

I'd start by asking in the correct channel. And toss me a ping if you get a good resource 😄 theres also the sjooter multiplayer example that shows some of this in practice
Edit: i see im late for this so feel free to ignore

[dire frost]

@vagrant flicker add a breakpoint on the grab component at location and check if the returned component is valid

[solemn bramble]

Perhaps Physics Handle settings? Grab distance etc?

[tawdry surge]

Hey what are the drawbacks for child actor components?
I vaguely remember something about them being unreliable but the details are fuzzy

[icy dragon]

Unreliable and difficult to reference

[candid sentinel]

ok so i have actor components for abilities. primaryabilitycomponent, secondaryabilitycomponent, etc. and they both manage their own behaviors like cooldowns and such. problem is, im having issues where if i call a function to start the countdown of another cooldown before the other is finished, it gets softlocked forever, even though they should be separate and i even tried both having it be an event and a function. would anyone whos very familiar with BP be able to help?

[vagrant flicker]

It returns a valid object

[dire frost]

yeah i do not have any clue what the problem could be

[sacred minnow]

hi i have a small question, i want to create a trigger box that disables the running feature of the payer (a specific input, in this case is L.Shift), is there anyway that i can disable and enable a specific input? I think i need to use a boolean for this situation but i don't know how

[dire frost]

you can have a bool in your player let's name it can sprint, right? in the level blueprint, implement the on begin overlap event for the box trigger (just make sure the trigger box is selected in the level, right click in the level event graph and you see events or something like that). cast the overrlaped actor to your player character and set can sprint to true

[trim matrix]

Any ideas 💡 ?

[trim matrix]

Or is it possible to import a json in a data table element ? And then read that data back in the construction script ?

[sacred minnow]

i guess im not very good with boolean, i still dont get it somehow

i created the box and the boolean

[mental trellis]

Bools are either true or false. What's not to get?

[sacred minnow]

its how to use them with the input

[dire frost]

it's simple. if true do thing. if false do other thing

[sacred minnow]

how do i make to disable a specific input

i get that part

[dire frost]

you can have a branch that checks for the boolean after the input pressed event

[limber jacinth]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwCV3DH2-eE

[dire frost]

if it's false then you can sprint

if true then dont sprint

[limber jacinth]

Everything you ever wanted to know

[solemn bramble]

From my experience: they cause various replication problems in multiplayer, and, if Pawns are added as child components OnPossess is not fired.

[sacred minnow]

im a bit lost

[frank oriole]

Anyone come across issues with character movement - where the player just keeps running forward as if you're finger is still on the 'W' key after you hide the character?
I've tried everything here - disable movement, I even set the velocity of the character back to 0's and the strange thing is that the log even say the character is velocity 0's when it is running automatically on the screen

[maiden wadi]

I had that issue when switching input mode to UIOnly for UI stuff. You have to flush your input keys if that is your issue, but as far as I know, that's not BP Exposed.

If you have C++ access, it's as simple as calling APlayerController::FlushPressedKeys() after changing the input mode.

[cyan bone]

What is cheaper? Simple Move Actor. Or Vinterp to ?

[maiden wadi]

Those are separate things. One is for controlled pawns, the other is more generic.

In general though. basic interpolation is probably cheaper.

[crimson depot]

Is it possible to use an editor utility/widget to add rows to a datatable?

[jade chasm]

Hi, is it possible to export the class defaults of blueprint to a file in text format?

[mental trellis]

Everything is possible.

[maiden wadi]

Just sure about exporting so much. But using config files allows you to set those class defaults from a text file.

[gentle urchin]

Its not the VInterp costing you perf.. its everything else

[solid thorn]

Uhh i have a problem: Im trying do do a day and night cicle with a tutorial (im new with unreal). In the tutorial it says i should drag and drop the Skyspehre to the update sun direction under target but it doesnt work and i dont know why

[dire frost]

is update sun direction a custom function?

[solid thorn]

Idk 😄

I just typed in ipdate sun direction

the SM_Slyspere was already there

ok how can i use the bp? sry im kinda dumb

Ok thx c:

[crude isle]

Need help

so basically

I created an interface blueprint

and added it into a different blueprint

but for some reason I can't call the event of that interface

It only shows call funtion

[frank oriole]

hey, thanks so much for your response. I'll give it a shot. I assume I will have to reparent or expose the function to the BP. Thanks again

[maiden wadi]

I have my call in my C++ HUD. Calls Set Input Mode and flushes keys on it's owning player controller.

[young frost]

Hey everyone! My player is using the Character movement component, what mass should I be working with? The CMC mass or capsule collider mass? For interactions with objects in the world, my player should only be able to grab objects twice it's own mass

[tawdry surge]

@crude isle if your interface has an output you can't use it as an event

[crude isle]

?

[crude isle]

no outputs

weird

Now it's showing up

well it works now but I didnt fix anything lol

[cyan bone]

Yes. I understand it is those crazy nested loops. As you said 100x100 = 10000. But now im thinking of an alternative, that is to vinterp all units in a paralel line towards the enemy. Or maybe even better split a batallion into 4 sub-batallions, and each of these subbatallion can then call the separation. Thats 4 separation checks.

So the question now is. Should i split my batallion into groups of instances 25 each (100 total) and use the vinterp to and move all instances and check separation between groups of instances - 4 separation checks but vinterping all units.

Or should i split the main batallion into 4 actors (with 25 soldiers each (total 100), and move each of the 4 actors in the direction of the enemy. 4 actor spawns, simple move actor to location and 4 separation checks.

[rough blade]

What would cause the "Get Physics Linear Velocity" to return the wrong velocity when the actor isnt locally controlled?

[royal iron]

Could someone enlighten me why as soon as I start to sprint my value drops to 0 instead of taking 1 each seconds from the value? (Also this event is in tick, probably thats why?)

Yes, I thought so haha! Thanks for the answer! ^^

[lime fulcrum]

How is it that I can't edit properties of components in a placed actors? It's like they are locked and read only

[fallen glade]

is it possible in blueprint to know how much screen space an actor is using?

[lime fulcrum]

Ok, this seems to be a big issue. Some components can't be edited... The skybox has a post process volume as a child component and the skybox placed actor does not let me edit those properties... Keeps resetting them to defaul as I release my mouse button

[maiden wadi]

Vaguely. You can get an actor's bounds and figure it from that. It's not always accurate depending on how the actor is set up. But close.

[fallen glade]

Will try that thanks !

[frank oriole]

So on implementing FlushKeys - it does appear to work... BUT... only if you give it enough time to flush... I found that it appears to take around 2 seconds to completely perform the flush which is kinda crappy really. I not sure where to go from here. I can understand why there is a stack for inputs, but surely there must be a way to limit the size of the stack? Just feels like a dirty way to solve a problem that shouldnt be a problem to begin with?

[lime fulcrum]

Look like I can't edit the exposure settings in the post process volume :\

[maiden wadi]

I haven't experienced that. Flush for me is instant. If your stack is massive, it means you've enabled input in a massive amount of actors. Usually it shouldn't be more than a dozen or so actors.

[gentle urchin]

Id go with the ISMs, with groups of 25

[cyan bone]

thank you. will do that

[ivory bison]

hey guys im trying to show the Ammo variable in the BP of a rifle in the widget. i made this bind function in the UI widget but im having trouble fetching the Ammo variable from BP of rifle to bind function in UI can any1 help me pls..

[unique harness]

I'm not sure I understand your question

[unique harness]

yes you can but typically, you want to create structs in c++

[plain hull]

Thank you very much. It's done.

[unique harness]

oh ok, awesome!

[plain hull]

Really appreciated for the help and the meme

[unique harness]

no problem 😛

[light parrot]

Hello guys, how can i delete level streaming instances?

[humble flume]

Hey my 1 ai is shooting the another ai anybody no how to ignore self i try to use when target =self don't shoot but not working

[unique harness]

target = self would be self, not the other AI

if you don't want AI to attack each other, you can check the Pawn's controller

[unique harness]

I don't see a method exposed to BPs to do this

Yea, doesn't look like you can from BPs

you could make a BlueprintFunctionLibrary in C++ and expose it

[humble flume]

Okay

Hey can u tell me one thing

If I use all actor of class and promote it to a variable it consists of all actor of that class including child actor or not

[desert juniper]

someone good at math here can lend a hand?
I'm trying to create a grapple + swing mechanism
I'd like to add an initial impulse towards the grapple point, and then apply a swinging force
I'm able to apply the two seperately, however when trying to apply the swinging force, it cancels any velocity the player already had

[unique harness]

yes, it would include child actors. Typically you don't want to use that node though

Better to manage an array yourself when actor's are created/destroyed

[unique harness]

there should be a different node that doesn't override current velocity

Maybe AddImpulse

[light parrot]

But how method is called in c++?

[unique harness]

UWorld::RemoveStreamingLevel

[light parrot]

thanks!

[desert juniper]

unfortunately the swinging math breaks when adding impulse, since it keeps adding each frame to it's existing impulse

[mental trellis]

Use AddForce

That's what intended for each frame.

[desert juniper]

using it like i initially posted for some reason still cancels out the initial velocity/momentum

(with the add force)

[bold phoenix]

Any idea why i can't 'set post process settings' for a scene capture component ? I basically input the same 'make post process settings' in my camera and in the 2D scene component. But it only modifies the camera post process volume

[mental trellis]

Is it because you're adding a stupidly large force?

[desert juniper]

If i remove the initial force it still behaves exactly the same

[nimble talon]

Hi Guys, im new to Unreal
How to Send Signal From One object to another (i want to trigger something in player pawn from triggerBox)

[gentle urchin]

GetPlayerPawn in the triggerbox

Cast to your pawn and call the event

Or use the on overlap event -> grab other actor -> cast to your pawn -> call the event

[nimble talon]

thx

[rich jungle]

I saw someone in a tutorial with "sharp" reference lines

the corners they turned were sharper

is there a way to set that?

I tried searching editor preferences and couldn't find it

[mental trellis]

Reference lines?

[rich jungle]

whatever this is called lol

maybe why I can't find it

[thin panther]

Double click the line if you want a reroute node

[rich jungle]

no, I want the corners sharper

[mental trellis]

Good question. What are they called?

[tight schooner]

Probably a plugin

[mental trellis]

Connectors?

[rich jungle]

yeah I thought it might be

[desert juniper]

electric nodes

https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/product/electronic-nodes

[rich jungle]

this is how his look

[mental trellis]

The fuck is up with that line on the left?

[rich jungle]

probably too close to the entry

[desert juniper]

one of the many problems with the plugin

I ended up removing it due to too many inconsistencies

[mental trellis]

They don't like non-grid-aligned lines, apparently.

[desert juniper]

felt i always spent more time lining it up and fixing the nodes

[rich jungle]

well whatever too lazy for a plugin

thanks though :)

[crude isle]

breh why is there no list to debug

im tryna debug something

and the only option is no debug object selected

[verbal bobcat]

Hi, is it possible to run a ue4 program as a background process in windows?

[solemn crescent]

Working with “Runtime Datatable”
Is there a way to fill a Curve table via csv, or is there another approach? Bvh?

[haughty axle]

Question people of internet. I am doing the thingy which would automatically rotate player by 90 degrees. Basically it's collision cube, I am getting player forward vector and trying to compare to collision box forward vector. Collision box have two arrows on x and y. And I am trying to compare player Fvector to arrows Fvector on collision box overlap, but i am getting false results if even after double checking what data I am getting from both Fvectors. Basically goes like this Getting world rotation-> getting Forward vector-> then comparing if those two numbers on branch if they are equal or not. But still getting false results.

[jolly radish]

anyone know how to make this widget double sided?

[gentle urchin]

Huh

Double sided like a material?

[jolly radish]

yeah essentially

because when i go behind the blueprint that the widget is attached to, it is invisible

[icy dragon]

That's up to the widget component's material, not the widget itself.

Also consider using screen space widgets for something like health bar above characters

[jolly radish]

how do i set the material of a progress bar

[jolly radish]

these are all the options i see available regarding the progress bar fill

[icy dragon]

widget component, not the widget (progress bar) itself.

[tawdry bone]

Is there a way to have multiple execution output pins in a blueprint function? or will I have to construct it from cpp?

I'm trying to make an adapter function from the old input system to the enhanced input system because I want to use the echo asset but I dont want to use the enhanced input system

[jolly radish]

ahhhh okay

cheers

its just black on the back

its ok

i found a workaround

just duplicating it

and rotating 180 degrees lol

[icy dragon]

If you want to get hacky but more elegant, just change the widget space from World to Screen, but you do you.

[jolly radish]

its already on screen but tankyou!

[tawdry bone]

Found that macros are what I need, but I am looking now for a flow control that will pulse when it starts receiving execution and pulse once again when it stops receiving execution

alright nevermind again I found the wealth of flow control macros haha, sorry cpp user still new to bp land

ok now I'm stuck for real sorry about all of the messages, I've tried to figure this one out on my own, how do I connect an execution output to multiple nodes?

[tawdry surge]

Sequence

Or switch
Depending on your need

[tawdry bone]

ok perfect thank you

[elder mango]

is there a good tutorial for a multiplayer fps game?

i can't find anything good

[tawdry bone]

and by chance is there a not gate of sorts, like execute if not receiving execution?

I'm trying to send a single execution pulse at the end of receiving execution

so my plan was to just have a do once that started close that would be executed by the inverse of the input

[icy dragon]

UE4: ShooterGame example
UE5: Lyra project (improvise it to be FPS)

[jolly radish]

is there a way to attatch pawn sensing to a component

so that it follows the rotation of it ect

if false

delay 0.5s

then link the end of the delay back into the branch

oooh im retarded

maybe delay 0.1s at the end

and then after the delay plug that straight into the branch again

[thin panther]

Look into ai perception and behaviour trees it makes this easier

[jolly radish]

@thin panther any idea how to make it repeat itself?

it only does this once and i want it to do it multiple times

like on repeat as long as the AI can sense the player

[thin panther]

Use behaviour trees for ai, i find them much better to work with

[jolly radish]

okay

[bold phoenix]

Any idea why the 'Export start' string is displayed only when the loop is completed in this event ?

[ancient sparrow]

I want to make a game where you can walk on walls and I have a question

Is it possible to make enemy pathfinding work on walls as well?

[modest monolith]

Hello guys, do you know a way to make an animation cancel? Like if I am sliding and decide to jump i'll start the jump animation and cancel the sliding animation without sliding in the air ? Pleasee

[bold phoenix]

I'm pretty sure it can be done using a behavior tree

[modest monolith]

😮 for a protagonist ?

[trim matrix]

What is apart of your anim graph and what is anim montage?

I will assume that the jumping is apart of the anim graph?

how is the sliding handled?

[modest monolith]

Okay, switching lane, sliding is anim montage

jump is anim graph since i need jump start jump loop and jump end

since when I jump I can cancel the animation because my slide is an anim montage

I can't cancel the slide because the anim graph seems to be weaker than montages

[trim matrix]

AnimMontages play inside what is called a slot

[modest monolith]

default slot ?

[trim matrix]

In your animation blueprint

Yes, im sure you are playing the montage in the defualt slot

In your animation blueprint, you can setup if the blueprint uses that slot based on different conditions.

[modest monolith]

atm is here

[trim matrix]

yes, do you see how the DefaultSlot will ALWAYS be applied

[modest monolith]

Yes

[trim matrix]

if you make it so that the default slot is only apllied under certian conditions, you can stop the montage from showing

[modest monolith]

How? I tried to put it before the locomotion

but it won't do the sliding animation anymore

I really have no idea.. I have a lot of problems with animations they seem so uncollaborative

[trim matrix]

You would need to cache the final pose.

then use a blend by bool

If jumping is true, use the cached final pose

if jumping is false, use the cached final pose + the default slot

plug the result of this blend by bool into the OutputPose

[modest monolith]

what's the cache ?

[trim matrix]

If you dont know how to cache poses in the anim graph, I would go learn up on the basics of the anim blueprint

Im sure there is a live training by epic games that will explain it.

[trim matrix]

This is because you dont understand the basics then, it is very simple when you get the hang of it.

[modest monolith]

Also my random sequence player doesn't work

I put my serie of animations

but they just loop infinitely

instead of picking one jump between the many

[trim matrix]

I couldnt tell you why

[modest monolith]

btw this pose cache seems to exist in ue 5

not 4

[trim matrix]

it has existed in ue4 for years

[modest monolith]

Boh .. honestly I didn't understand what's your plan

Done... lol

[trim matrix]

Yes that is the other way

[modest monolith]

way better i'd say

[trim matrix]

Yes it is, I was under the impression you had some issue doing it that way.

[modest monolith]

XD

I notice that when I press space to jump

it first uncrouch then when I press Spacebar again it jumps

Why is that?

Can't he uncrouch and jump at the same time with only one input ?

[trim matrix]

Provide a screenshot or something of the space bar code. If not then again, I have no idea.

To me that would seem like the result of intentional design.

[solemn crescent]

I need to reposition a 2D plane in front of the cam like a background card.

What nodes would I use for that?

[trim matrix]

That seems like a matter of simply updating the planes location and rotation. Is the plane an actor? SetActorTrasnform?

[trim matrix]

I see, I have never used the build in crouch functionality for the Character class. I do not know.

[solemn crescent]

Haven’t made the 2D card yet. It can be an actor.

Getting the cam vector and working with it is the part that has me thrown.

I’m a few days into BP but most has been DataTable and Audio features so far.

[trim matrix]

You want to find the position that is X amounts of units in front of the camera?

[solemn crescent]

Kind of.
I need the 6D trans/rot coords.
The event will fire occasionally and the card can start out at any location.

Ideally I could keep it scaled to the cam frustum so: further=bigger
Where I could freely adjust the depth.
I get that is more complex tho.

[modest monolith]

Do you know how to stop any animation is playing during an action?

I tried "Stop"

but doesn't work

I need my player to reset to it's idle state immediately after he enters one zone

also t-pose whatever

since he will play other stuff right after

[tiny frost]

how do i move components out side of blueprint ue4

like you can with splines

nevermind ive igured it out

[trim matrix]

Sorry for late reply, you seem to have an good idea of the math required so you should be able to figure it out very quickly.
For location, you should be able to do something like PlaneLocation = CameraComponet.GetWorldLocation + (CameraComponet.GetForwardVector * TargetDistanceFloatVariable).
For Rot you should be able to simply have PlaneRot = CameraComponet.GetWorldRotation. Just make sure that the relative rotation of the plane component is (90.0, 0.0, 90.0).
I'm not sure how you want to handle scale. Either way it should be simple. Your just doing a variation of PlaneScale = DefaultScale * TargetDistanceFloatVariable with some extra steps in the end.

[solemn crescent]

Definitely out of the loop on the math,
but I understand your solution.
I’m guessing there are blueprint equivalents of the those functions?
I will see if I can get that going.

I really appreciate your response by the way. It’s been a week of trying to get help to no avail.

[trim matrix]

I am using the blueprint names yes. This is just Pseudocode.

[tiny frost]

+lord

i looked down for 3 seconds

[solemn crescent]

Diving in to it now. Thank you again.

[pine trellis]

how come I cant set the name variable as blank with nothing written?

it always returns NONE

[trim matrix]

Name variables typicly use None instead.

[icy dragon]

If you want blank text variable, either use FString or FText

(btw F prefixes for stock typenames are omitted in BP)

[pine trellis]

Oh ok

[modest monolith]

For who wants to know the answer.. put a delay between unrouch and jump of 0.001 sec.. problem solved

[pine trellis]

how come its not setting the variable name, is it because NONE is there?

because NONE shows up on the server list

[trim matrix]

The defualt value of the variable does not matter.

If LevelName is not getting set, it is either because the code is broken and SetLevelName is not getting called.

Or becuase SetLevelName is geting called, but you are plugging a value of "None" into it.

Look into how AnimationMontages work.

Its as simple as:
PlayMontange()

[midnight wedge]

So I've set up a roll system using launch character (I prefer it this way vs having it be animation driven), but it gets wonky when rolling off of a ledge as there is no ground friction to stop the player. I havent been able to find an air resistance modifier as I also am trying to make the character's be more vertical than horizontal as well, rather than the current 45 degree arc. I could fix the jumping issue via launching the character rather than using the regular jump (so I can make the majority of the force launch up), but that doesnt fix my current rolling issue and I want to see if modifying horizontal air movement solves both of those issues.

[solemn crescent]

I almost have it.
Adding to vertical instead of depth.

How do I set the plane component to 90,0,90?

[cosmic breach]

Random question: is it possible to set an entire array or do I have to set each individual element?

Meaning, when I take array A, and "Set" Array B to A it does not work or translate. Only way I can do it is setting each elem

[trim matrix]

bgImage->getPlaneComponet.SetRelativeRotation(90.0, 0.0, 90.0);

[solemn crescent]

Woof, I’m glad I took that screen shot - the level blueprint doesn’t save on its own.

Rebuilding and will attempt.

[trim matrix]

Also, you should be able todo this CineCameraActor->GetCineCameraComponet->getForwardVector

no need to turn the world location into a rotator first.

[trim matrix]

This should work like you described.

You can set an entire array at once yes.

This does not work for you? If it does not there is another issue.

[warm lava]

Any clue why this won't levitate my player (works for everything else)

[trim matrix]

Does setting the world location of the RootComponet even work? I am not sure, you should use SetActorLocation anyways instead. Is gravity pulling the player down? Is the value of NewTrack0 on your timeline configured properly?

[faint pasture]

Your character is probably being moved around by the CMC and you're fighting with it by doing this

[solemn crescent]

Something’s off.

I see it flip when I toggle between keys E and C…

[trim matrix]

the code of E should go before the SetActorLocationAndRotaion

[glass magnet]

heres just a question that im not gonna focus on rn i just want some ideas, how can i achieve 2019 God of War's combat? where the player sort of attaches to the enemy when attackng

i probably shouldve asked in general but hi

[solemn crescent]

Looks like it!
Time to stress test, but thank you again for your help.

[trim matrix]

help my event hit isnt working

i made a dummy sphere actor (static mesh bp) and had when hit to print a message if it worked and no string was printed

[solemn crescent]

The position looks right, rotation prints out as (0,0,0) and looks flat/invisible

Do I need to pre rotate the plane?

[languid quail]

is there a way to "shrinkwrap" a spline via blueprint to a static mesh / heightfield so its even everywhere ?

[trim matrix]

Nobody but you knows a single line of code in your project. Nobody but you knows how any of your components are configured. If you want help, please come prepared with as detailed of an explanation as you can provide. Along with screenshots of the code you believe is problematic. Until then, nobody has any idea what the cause of your problem is.

[trim matrix]

nvm i found a work around

[warm lava]

There's a spline tool in the market place where the spline automatically reconfigures to whatever it is lying on (stumps, slabs, rocks, roofs, doesn't matter)... mgith be able to use that as a guide

[languid quail]

sounds promising

[trim matrix]

You are saying that the rotation of the CineCameraComponet is always 0.0.0?

[solemn crescent]

Not sure about always. I’ll try moving the cam and seeing if it’s relative.

[warm lava]

I believe this is it... can CMC be disabled temporarily?

[solemn crescent]

It prints the camera rotation exactly.
which I guess is 90 off the planes native position?

[pine trellis]

how can I find the get map name node?

[trim matrix]

Sorry I was just recreating your code, just to make sure something wasnt off.

It does not work for you?

[solemn crescent]

No, seems to flipped flat, not forward.

[trim matrix]

Yes, the setRelativeRotation should be fixing that

You are using the default UE4 plane mesh?

If you are not, that could explain the problem.

[solemn crescent]

Ue5, yes

I dragged it in and rotated it to an odd angle

[trim matrix]

oh in UE5. I wonder if it is different.

Well then, play around with the values of SetRelativeRotaion until it is rotated properly.

[solemn crescent]

Makes sense. I’ll do that.

[trim matrix]

Just to be clear, you want the plane to face the camera correct?

[languid quail]

Found a blueprint for doing that

[frosty bay]

Is Lan-Play multiplayer possible via blueprints on UE4?

[jolly radish]

I'm creating a coin system, where can i store the coint count other than the first person character BP

because when the player dies and the actor is destroyed the variable gets destroyed with it

[trim matrix]

Yes

[jolly radish]

this hurts my head man

[trim matrix]

There is alot of other places. I would recommend the PlayerController.

[jolly radish]

good idea ill give it a go

thankyou

[trim matrix]

Look into the unreal engine GameplayFramework when you get a chance

Hi I made an actor that detects when hit, i had my player character running into this actor to test it and I added a print string that will print string of the hit component, it's only detecting the collision cylinder of the character, not the skeletal mesh which is what I need

Since Im attaching a decal to the skeletal mesh and not the collision cylinder that comes with the character

Or do hit events not work on Skeletal meshes?

[trim matrix]

The collision settings do not align then.

Either way, you should not need to hit your skeletal mesh in order to apply a decal to it.

[trim matrix]

It needs to be on a specific point (the place where it first made contact with the other actor)

I see

When you say, you made an actor?

What componet of this actor detects collision with your player?

[trim matrix]

The static mesh

its a static mesh actor/bp

You need to check the collision presets of this static mesh then.

[onyx token]

i want my NPC character to look at me while he's bonking.
Is this the best way to achieve this? A timeline?
Or is there a better way?

[trim matrix]

Its set to BlockAllDynamic

[onyx token]

maybe i could do it on event tick? I'm not sure

but i might aswell use a timeline then...

[trim matrix]

And the skeletal mesh of the player is also set to BlockAllDynamic

Is SimulationGeneratesHitEvents ticked?

[trim matrix]

Ah no, didnt know that was an option

And also how would I get the static mesh actor to ignore the collision box then?

You would need to create a custom preset for that.

[jolly radish]

why this error?

to do with this?

[trim matrix]

The static mesh actor still only says its hitting the collision cylinder even if part of the skeletal mesh goes through it with an anim

[jolly radish]

(specifically the end part of he BP)

[vapid edge]

guys my character blueprint has 2 int variables that stores a kind of points ... lets say dark and light points ....
and based on which point is higher i wanna make my character have a status like : more light points = Hero, more dark points = villain , if both points balanced = Nutral ... how would i track this any ideas ? im very new to unreal blue prints

[jolly radish]

dont worry i found a workaround!

[trim matrix]

You could also check the type of componet you are hitting.

Programaticly.

During the HitEvent.

You could also give the mesh a specific tag. And check for that tag.

There is alot of ways.

[icy dragon]

Pseudocode:

if (LightPoint == DarkPoint)
{
       // can be enum or something to determine the morality
       EMoralState::Neutral;
}

So basically Neutral if both int are equal.

Of course you would also going to have another branch on false/else to check if light point is larger than dark point, and vice versa

Though doing else if in BP can turn into spaghetti rather quickly

[solemn crescent]

Exactly, no matter what value I input I get that flat position though.
Bug?

Would it make sense to instead force a secondary rotation?

[icy dragon]

So what you want is to replicate camera facing billboard in actor BP?

[vapid edge]

something along these lines ?

[solemn crescent]

Yes, not parented, but moved in response to an event.

[warm lava]

need to freeze thirdperson character/template in place ... stop movement doesn't seem to work any ideas?

[icy dragon]

Yes.

I think as long as the equal check goes first, the false from greater than check should always be less than.

[icy dragon]

Though personally I'd rather swap those three set of bool into an enumerator considering one moral side shouldn't be the other simultaneously (e.g. Villain AND Hero AND Neutral won't make sense)

[solemn crescent]

Add Actor Local Rotation seems to do it.
Hopefully not to kludgey?

[icy dragon]

Try disabling it.

Stop Movement (I think) only sets the movement mode to none

[warm lava]

seems have to disable input and disable movement together. thank you

[trim matrix]

Instead of calling another node. You could simply do this FinalRot = CombineRotators(A == (90.0, 0.0, 90.0), B == CameraComponet.GetWorldRotation)

If you want something cleaner.

[solemn crescent]

Cool beans. I’ll fix that up.

So glad to have this going.
Grinding to get prepped for a shoot tonight, now maybe kinda within reach.

[trim matrix]

Maybe kinda

yep

thats how it be

[west gyro]

hey boys I'm a noob animator building a player controller who could need some help with a i guess for your guys simple topic 🙂
I know I can delay something by 1 frame if u set duration to 0 on a delay node but why cant I pick the node with Frames input? is this coming from a plugin? I can only pick the duration node and don't have the delay node with the Frame Pin as O can see on various guides.
Cheers

this i would like ;D

this i get 😭

[trim matrix]

I am not sure. Try turning off context sensitivity?

The Delay (Frames) node maybe only exist within certian blueprints?

[onyx token]

because the delay doesn't run on frames

you would have to set an Integer variable and increase it with an event tick - the event tick runs on frames

[trim matrix]

He is saying that there is a plugin that provides him with a special delay that does run on frames.

[onyx token]

oh nvm

[trim matrix]

or wait no xD

[west gyro]

no im asking if there is one ;D

[trim matrix]

He says, is this coming from a plugin?

[onyx token]

i thought the first one was photoshopped

[trim matrix]

I would assume so then. I have never seen a Delay (Frames) before.

[west gyro]

i m using omega frame work and rebuilding genshin whit this guide ;D

[onyx token]

i'd guess a delay on frames would just include an integer anyways tho and a branch

[rich jungle]

I'm rebuilding my test experiment and I've hit this really weird issue. My custom created and player controller possessed pawn just refuses to do controller input. This just does nothing silently. I've double checked and the event is firing as well as having an axis value

has anyone run into this issue before?

[west gyro]

and the guy (Caius) is using this node all the time to delay stuff

like this for the jump

[trim matrix]

Even if you could delay by frames, there is no reason why you should ever delay by the framerate of the game. It is very inconsistant.

Unless the "frames" he is speaking of is different.

[onyx token]

well you could just-

[west gyro]

no frames are frames for everybody ;D

[onyx token]

but the frames aren't consistent tho

if i have a crappy pc, i wait longer

if you have a good pc, you wait shorter

frames are not frames for everybody

some have more frames some have less

[west gyro]

oh so you think he just made a macro?

[onyx token]

well this would be a function, but sure

[west gyro]

oh yeah sry im mixing them up all the time heheh

so can i make one that is over all usable?

[onyx token]

also this symbol doesn't make a whole lot of sense

if it's frames

[trim matrix]

It does.

[onyx token]

does it? I thought this meant stuff was frame independent

[unique harness]

your best bet is to avoid using delay nodes

[trim matrix]

Exactly

[onyx token]

they do be smelly indeed

[west gyro]

hehe ok i trust u guys on that part ;D

thanks a lot 😍

[trim matrix]

The node is coming from a plugin, or a special class. It is not something you will be able to reacreate yourself in BP. Unless you do wierd shenanigans.

[west gyro]

and will further investigate this topic

oh soo its writen in c++?

[onyx token]

but if someone is using it "all the time" for animation stuff-
I'm not sure if it's such a good tutorial to follow...

[trim matrix]

Yes

[onyx token]

usually you're not really supposed to use any delays for animations...

especially not frames...

since maybe the clock doesn't mean frame independent, but i'm fairly sure the animation thread is pretty frame independent

or is it?

[unique harness]

everything has a frame time

[onyx token]

no escape

[west gyro]

hehe

[atomic lake]

hello, with Enhanced Input's InputMappingContext how can you get the absolute position of the mouse?

[onyx token]

can't you get that anyways?

[unique harness]

You just get it from the PlayerController

[trim matrix]

It means that the function is latent.

Aka, that the function takes time to complete.

[onyx token]

oh i see

[unique harness]

"Will probably not be completed this frame"

[onyx token]

maan why must making a combat system be such a pain

[frosty bay]

How? is there a tutorial?

[rich jungle]

has anyone had issues where a possessed pawn ignores controller input?

[trim matrix]

Im sure there is tons of tutorials online yes.

[onyx token]

atleast my enemy is blocking now
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/847253861403197471/972684492575768586/UnrealEditor_mj3QwJIjsD.mp4

[frosty bay]

do you have 1 link? i havent found one

[trim matrix]

I do not have a link no.

Good luck.

[frosty bay]

thanks

[frank oriole]

Yeah I get what you're saying, but this is only in a bare bones thirdperson project with a single character etc. I took another look this morning and instead of calling flushkeys at the start of the process to bring the character back into view and modify its transform, I put the flushkeys call right at the end - and hey presto, it's all working like gold 😉 Thanks @maiden wadi for talking me through this, and I certainly didn't know about the flush keys call - really appreciated it.

[west gyro]

same guy other question ;D
I have this HUD issue where I'm trying to keep the stamina bar over my player and not just on a relative potion on the screen. In full screen its fine but when i play in in a window with weird ratios its messed up. Any ideas how I could fix that?

[warm lava]

anyone know how to fix the problem with dual screens when right clicking and all the text items are black (in the event graphs)

[desert juniper]

You need to use anchors

If you're going for a very specific placement, like above the player's head, then it's better to use a WidgetComponet, as it's a worldspace UI element

[west gyro]

i tryed many different positon already top left or center doesnt make a difference 😭

[west gyro]

hmm ok i have no clue ;D but i will try to find out thx

[desert juniper]

it's fairly easy, just create a Widget Component

[west gyro]

what the bar it self you mean?

[desert juniper]

no

a widget component displays whatever Widget you've already created

[west gyro]

let me reopen the engine i was about to quit for today ;D

[desert juniper]

when you make it, just select the healthbar widget you already made

then just add it to the player

[desert juniper]

here we go, just made it

Steps:
I made a BPW_Healthbar with a Size Box set to 300x30, and set to screen size & Desired

the component is just set to Space:Screen, WidgetClass: WCP_Healthbar

and lastly, just add the component to your playerBP

ezpz

[warm lava]

i'd like to set location of an object but have it move slowly to that point from it's current one. any ideas?

[desert juniper]

Timelines are great
this seems like it might be a decent video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTCLEg697z0

[sly forge]

When i create an ed with pass by reference i get this "no value will be returned by reference"

[runic parrot]

Hi everybody! This TileMap is generated procedurally with a X,Y matrix. The cells are either On/Off.

I want to achieve 2 more things after the map is done, but the workarounds that i find are extremelly inefficient.

1. Smoth the Borders
2. Identify all the Empty cells that are not in the border (all the ones inside the map)

How would you go about doing those 2?

p.d.: the script is really simple and can get you 150x150 TileSet really quickly, i didn't see any on the store for free. I'm gonna update it later there for free just in case it's usefull for anyone

[opaque acorn]

when i try get all components by class and target is self I get this error why?

[torpid mulch]

Guys, I'm a bit lost about multiple code interactions, my project is blueprint only and I'm trying to understand how can I have two separate systems interacting on a single player character. Coming from Unity, I could just add the script to my object, but as my character on Unreal has its own blueprint, how can I make a separate component that lives inside this character but has a different blueprint?

[spark steppe]

you would create an actor component

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3Wyy1BFrTk

[trim matrix]

I don't really know if this is classified as a Blueprint issue but I can't find anything better, so I'm running 2 players (server and client) and when I move forwards it's fine, but when I move to the left and right and backwards the screen jitters back and forth.

I'll try and record a quick vid hold on

[solemn crescent]

Can’t load any Key events in the blueprint actor event graph.

Converted a CineCamActor to BP.

Are there instances where the Key events are not available?
Is there a way to pipe them in?

[torpid mulch]

Thank you so much Ben :D

[gentle urchin]

Enanled input?

[obtuse dawn]

so im having a problem where when a death animation is played on another players screen but is does not happen on the main player base and the code does not work

[solemn crescent]

Where would I set that? (new to bp)

[obtuse dawn]

heres one side of it I could not get the other

the main player should not be able to move

[formal parcel]

hey peeps, trying to set the seed for random generator but the bottom always returns same value

top works fine but i cant set the seed, any ideas?

[dawn gazelle]

It's because you're creating the stream over and over again whenever you're calling from the "Random Integer in Range from Stream". Promote the return value from the "Make Random Stream" to a variable and set it, then you can use the stream variable to feed into the "From Stream" nodes.

[formal parcel]

thanks datura, you are correct found the same

its a bug if i create it within a function it recreates it every iteration in the loo

fixed by creating outside and passing in reference

thanks!

well, not passing in reference but using it

[sturdy flicker]

nvm

[cyan bone]

I dont know exactly the channel where to post this, so i posted here.
I'm creating many types of units. Some are spearmen, others are swordsmen, archer etc...
Each one of these units have their own stats, bonus types, attack, defense, special ability.
When i spawn a new unit, i need these to be loaded for the corresponding unit.
So if i load a Spearmen, it needs a spear, and it has bonus vs cavalry, etc etc...
So should i have a struct for each type of unit? Or is there something like data, where i can store all of this and access it? Or is this done by a parent unit, then child of different types with different atributes?

[wise tide]

if I use cast to thirdperson_bp and I create a child of thirdperson_bp to use for the player, will the cast to thirdperson_bp target the child when playing?

[wise tide]

good to know, ty

[rotund marlin]

Anyone know a good way to handle team management after seamless transfer in bp?

or a guide showing it well <.<

[valid juniper]

About interface and inheritance.
If BP B inherits BP A; and BP A implements interface Interface1; and Interface1 has method GetXXX()
Is that normal that in BP B, I can se method GetXXX() in interface section "as if it was not implemented" ? (default setup input/output)
The interface is well marked as "inherited" in BP B class setup.

As if I had to re-implement GetXXX in BP B

[opaque acorn]

Is there any node to get volume of an actor by bound box?

Or the box extend itself tells

[remote meteor]

its normal to see it not being implemented because the parents implements it, you do not have to reimplement it however, it will just call the parent function

[opaque acorn]

I have an actor eg A when it will overlapping with other actor eg B will show red if the B actor bounding volume is more than A

[valid juniper]

ok thanks

[torpid mulch]

How can I see the line trace while playing? I see they have color and draw time but I don't see them 🤔

[fiery glen]

increase the draw time above 0

0 is intended for something you do every frame

it only exists for one frame that way

also make draw debug type not None

[somber panther]

Can anyone get in VC with me that has experience with blueprints, blendspaces, and animation blueprints

[torpid mulch]

Thank you, I thought they were like the debug stuff with 0 being every frame, also I didn’t knew you could write none on the debug ones, thanks a lot

[languid quail]

i have a BP with which i can animate a car along a path, my only last problem so far is that i want an automatic solution so that the spline is always on exactly on the road
is there a good solution for that? i tried casting rays from the controll points but that doesn't solve the "rotation" of each controll point when ascending or descending

[fiery glen]

is it still none?

[torpid mulch]

I can see it now :)

[somber panther]

Can anyone help me with debugging animations since the problem is that when I press some buttons at once the chracter stays in the same animation instead of changing