blueprint

[dapper marsh]

woah

yep, bullets are saying hello

[astral epoch]

Odd.

Not colliding with the person firing?

[dapper marsh]

nope

I see them going right through the collider

[hallow gate]

Oh god...

I just realised that I also adjust by 5

This is about to increase in scale by about 100

LOL

[astral epoch]

Show me the code you're using?

[tawdry surge]

I think you wanna look into select nodes also.. help clean that up alot

[dapper marsh]

yes hold on

[dapper marsh]

https://blueprintue.com/blueprint/eejs6fv5/

the sphere is the projectile collider

I mean, I know I'm messing up somewhere, the question is where lol

[astral epoch]

Show me your viewport for the projectile? I want to see this sphere collider.

[dapper marsh]

https://gyazo.com/0968d1f0a30bdbea97982c62ad0b6eb5

the cube in there has no collision

and the planes too

[astral epoch]

Use "On component begin overlap" rather than "component hit"

[dapper marsh]

nope, same

[astral epoch]

Okay no idea then 😦

Because overlap should work.

Actually, try one thing

[spice imp]

Oh yes, I found the answer in the engine source. There's more documentation in the comments in the source code than there is in the documentation. You have to plunk down a ConfigureMaterialsSet node, then plug a MakeArray into the input. Then you can add as many entries as you want and drag materials onto them

[astral epoch]

On the projectile, set your actor/pawn/character to "overlap" rather than "block"

[formal parcel]

before i write it all manually... is there a way to know if an actor is "touching" another?

at present state

[astral epoch]

You should be able to check all collisions

[formal parcel]

not like a hit event

[astral epoch]

"Get Overlapping Actors" outputs an array of actors. You can test to see if the other character is in that.

Should work.

[formal parcel]

they wont be overlapping at this point

just share an edge location

they were overlapping, then were adjusted

[astral epoch]

It should still show up as overlapping in this case I believe?

[formal parcel]

so now some would be "touching"

idk, i can test i guess

[astral epoch]

Probably.

I'm pretty sure the overlap still flags even if you're barely doing it

[formal parcel]

these are not awake

so i spawn some stuff and move em to fill an area

so then after all of those are not awake

[dapper marsh]

Jesus Christ it's Jason Bourne IT WORKS!

[formal parcel]

i dont believe they would be coliding?

[astral epoch]

I mean that wasn't aimed at you but heyho

[astral epoch]

No idea.

[dapper marsh]

Thanks a lot @astral epoch hahah

[low marlin]

huh uh i need help w/ scene captures

idk how to make them in a bp

[formal parcel]

no, nothing is overlapping at this point @astral epoch

looped through em all, nothing

[astral epoch]

Righto.

Not sure then.

[formal parcel]

eh i guess i gotta write it myself

just checking if their bounds are touching basically

maybe a tiny threshold

[wraith crane]

Simply question, how can i cast to widget?

[low marlin]

how do i make a scene capture 2d and make a material use its target

[formal parcel]

just set a variable and have the widget reading the variable for the size...

[wraith crane]

i try this before but this dont work too

[unkempt pawn]

Ok, so.. I really dont know if this is the right place for this but I made a transforming mechanic, which now finally works if you do netmode client with 2 it works and matches, but if its netmode listen server the I assume host it is backwards. What is the possible problem or does it not matter?

[hallow gate]

@dapper marsh @obtuse herald I'm a freaking genius and a freaking dumbass, ALL I had to do was CLAMP the dang numbers

Then they couldn't exceed the bounds of the scale box even if they wanted to and naturally normalise to 0

By getting my current zoom and calculating the maximum allowed values of X and Y (and minimum) I could feed in the current position of the widget in comparison to the zoom and force it to translate to the regular number!

VICTORY IS MINE

[wraith crane]

this isnt work and give me this error
Blueprint Runtime Error: "Accessed None trying to read property croshaar ref". Node: Croshaar Set Size Graph: EventGraph Function: Execute Ubergraph WG Options Menu Blueprint: WG_OptionsMenu

[obtuse herald]

Nice to hear you found a clean way to implement it

[hallow gate]

May my suffering serve as a lesson haha

[formal parcel]

so... did you read the error?

[wraith crane]

i dont set the variable?

but i think i set them

[formal parcel]

UE disagrees

[low marlin]

can someone plz help me

like

[wraith crane]

how can i set it up?

[low marlin]

how tf do u create a scene capture

idk how

asdkasdoasjdsaod

[hallow gate]

Hang on @low marlin, clarifying

You want to capture a scene and render it onto a material yes?

[low marlin]

yes

[hallow gate]

I've got just the thing, one second

[low marlin]

but do it using the level blueprint

ik how to do it normally but idk how to use the blueprint to do it

[hallow gate]

Ahh

Have you set the default material?

[unkempt pawn]

Should this be here or #multiplayer ?

[low marlin]

i think

[hallow gate]

Make sure this is set

[low marlin]

i have this atm

[hallow gate]

Otherwise it's trying to render to nothing

Ahh you're creating one from scratch?

[low marlin]

can i make targets using the bp

[low marlin]

yes

because i need to make many of them

[hallow gate]

Uno momento

I'm a newbie too so it might take a sec

From the return value, set a "Print Target"

You'll have to create the materials before the game launches though

"Print_A_Render" is a material I made in advance

[low marlin]

will all things using the target be the same

[hallow gate]

Create however many you'll need and put them in an array to make it easier to use

Yeah, because you're creating the scene capture and then outputting which scene capture it is at the same time

In theory anyway, I've not tested it

Like this

Then make the texture target read from an array of materials and +1 to the array every time to make sure it selects the next one

[low marlin]

idk what im doing

[hallow gate]

Is your widget created in game already or attached to your player?

[wraith crane]

yes, in level blueprint

[hallow gate]

I don't have the time to set it all up for you man, I'm working on my own stuff :/ Look up how arrays work and how you can create materials using them and work from there

[low marlin]

ok

[hallow gate]

Okay, cast to the owner of the widget (IE what actor it's sitting on or level) THEN cast to the widget inside of it by targeting the widget and getting it

It's a convoluted way that oddly works

[wraith crane]

ok i try

[hallow gate]

So you cast to the owner of the widget and then cast to the widget inside the owner

Then if you're crazier like me, which I did, cast to the widget inside the widget

Hehehe

[unkempt pawn]

Did my question make sense or do I need to redo it?

[gentle urchin]

Well, pawn or no pawn, it spawns a cameraActor for you instead

[wraith crane]

did you mean something like this?

(I'm a noob user of the unreal engine, but I'm just learning something)

[gentle urchin]

the char will never be a widget

[hallow gate]

No, drag off "BP_FirstPerson" and search for the widget with "Get Widget" and put that in the widget

[wraith crane]

wait, i try

now there is error

[hallow gate]

Wrong side

[flat coral]

Is there a way to draw a sorta debug marker at a location in-game

Given a vector location?

[gentle urchin]

DrawDebugX*

[flat coral]

F yesss glad I asked

[hallow gate]

Event Tick > Cast to BP_FirstPersonCharacter (with get player character), then drag off from "As BP First Person Character" and search for "Get Widget" and select the widget you're trying to influence

[hallow gate]

^

[wraith crane]

ok now i try

[tawdry lava]

If I use SpawnActor to spawn a LevelInstance actor, how can I set its properties, like the Level it instances?

[wraith crane]

if i unclick the context sensitive i can drop the "get widget" node put i cant pug it with "as BP First Person Character"

i dont know what i doing wrong

[hallow gate]

It'll be easier to explain in voice I guess

I'm a bit busy but give me a sec

[wraith crane]

wait

i slove this

this work

tysm for help

[hallow gate]

That'll work as long as you're not also spawning the widget into another actor

If that's the only actor, with it, it should be fine

Nicely done

[wraith crane]

before writing the problem on discord, I try to slove this for 40 minutes

[hallow gate]

Trust me, I know the feeling haha

I've had to bang my head off the walls for hours on some issues

But there's always solutions

[wraith crane]

and again thanks for help thats mean a lot

[flat coral]

I'm doing a sphere trace to make sure that a pawn can do a movement before sending it. The sphere is, necessarily, slightly bigger than the pawn's collision radius (or else it tends to hit stuff).
The problem is, if my pawn is right beside a wall, the sphere trace hits the wall the pawn is beside, even if it's tracing AWAY from the wall.
Is there any simple way to prevent this?

My only idea is to add an offset to the start of the sphere trace equal to the sphere's radius, but that involves some kinda tricky vector math bullshit I'd rather not get into if I can avoid it

[low marlin]

how do i make a material from a target in a blueprint

[flat coral]

(Or, failing that, how about this vector problem: Given PointA and PointB, and a float Distance, how can I find a PointC that is Distance away from PointA on the way to PointB?)

Actually this needs ms paint

[hallow gate]

Don't you already have the radius of the circle?

If you're using a sphere that you've spawned?

[flat coral]

I'm not trying to find the radius, I'm trying to find the POINT which is one radius-length along the path from A to B

[hallow gate]

The distance from point A - point C IS the radius though?

[flat coral]

Yes! But what are the vector coordinates of point C?

[hallow gate]

Get the position of point A, split the struct and add the radius onto the direction you want to find

[flat coral]

But the direction is arbitrary. B could be anywhere.

[hallow gate]

Get Look At Rotation?

That'll tell you the direction anyway

[flat coral]

If I give you V1 (350, -900, 150) and V2(-500, 1000, -90) and tell you to find a point that is 200 units along the path from A to B

[hallow gate]

Then you can add the radius to the direction it's facing and get the point that way

[flat coral]

Can you use a rotator to turn a float into a vector like that?

[hallow gate]

Sorry, "Find look at rotation"

Splitting a rotator just gives you floats

[flat coral]

really what I need is a unit vector from that rotator so I can multiply that by the radius

get unit direction

[paper galleon]

B-A. Normalise then multiply by 200

Then add to A

That'll give you AC

I think I'm correct? Can someone check?

[unkempt pawn]

Maybe this too https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/how-to-calculate-coordinates-and-line-segments/464551/2

[flat coral]

How do I go from AC to just C?

[paper galleon]

This means that you have another origin. So it's AC + A

A = OA

OA + AC = OC

Made some changes

[runic urchin]

Anyone potentially have an Editor Utility widget to change the minimum LOD of a selected static mesh from the content browser?

[flat coral]

You put me on the right direction, thanks!

[paper galleon]

Wait... Was I correct?

[unkempt pawn]

How do you do the extra line dots

[paper galleon]

Double click on the line

It's a reroute node

[flat coral]

You were close! Adding that direction to A doesn't give you AC it just gives you C immediately. AB normalized * 200 is ALREADY AC.

[unkempt pawn]

Ooo thanks

[mental trellis]

If you have AC and want C, then add AC to A.

[paper galleon]

Ah... I suspected something was off.
Glad to help

I was thinking in math vectors where you can have another origin.

Technically the same thing though.

[flat coral]

also you can type "rer" when dragging a line, I find that more convienient if I don't realize in advance I need one. They're called "Reroute nodes"

[unkempt pawn]

I hate this... I have netmode client sync perfect. But netmore Listen server is flipped

Ive been on this for like a week at this point

And redesigned it 3 times each getting more progress then the other but now I am stumped

[astral epoch]

God I forgot how much I hate event dispatchers.

[paper galleon]

What? They're awesome

[astral epoch]

I know but I don't use them often and that means I totally forget how they work until I need to use them to incorporate like five different controllers into one.

Unless there's an easier way to do what I'm doing

Five was an exaggeration

[surreal delta]

If anyone is free to jump in voice chat, I need help working out some possible loop based logic.

TLDR Need to check when the player is falling to loop until it detects the ground or kill the player after a duration. We have special collision volumes setup that account for grid spaces and where the player can move next so it can be a bit tricky to work around. Can show you in VC

[flat coral]

I never remember how to do anything, I just remember where I did it the right way and then if I need to do it again I go look at that.

[unkempt pawn]

Maybe Ill reexplain my problem here, I have been working on a transforming mechanic allowing the player to transform back and forth between human and a picked character, I have some variables that have repnotify. And at this point it probably is something stupid tiny but Im at a loss. Client mode - 2 players both pick their character and transform and it matches perfect, can even go out of range then back and it stays synced.. Listen server mode - 2 players both pick their character and transform its backwards, the first transform doesnt sync but the others stay flipped.

[astral epoch]

I never remember how to do anything until someone else asks how its done and suddenly I am a teacher.

[tight schooner]

@surreal delta sounds like a suitable question for #blueprint in general if you don't get any takers for a private call. To me it sounds like when falling first begins, Set Timer By Event (node) on some death event. If falling is interrupted, clear the timer. I never handled characters so idk if there's some easy "begin falling" event you can bind to, or you have to recheck the falling state on tick / looped timer.

[unkempt pawn]

Yeah I was about to say it sounds like it should be done this way

[surreal delta]

ty seanny, thats definitely the first step. The second step is updating the current grid the player is on. The way it works right now I believe one of my teammates set up to check the current grid based onEntered and onExit custom events via input.

The issue is. I'm designing a level that doesn't move on a 1 layer grid anymore. So the player can fall underneath. Top layer can be walked on, but they can fall below too. But it does not update the grid to the bottom node.

In the picture i highlighted an example of spaces a trap door can drop the player to

so what happens is, when the player moves forward, they teleport/attachtoactor to the trap door space in front of it instead of the next space on the lower level.

[tranquil gorge]

hey so im not sure what the deal is with my camera that i placed in. ive been following a tutorial on a local multiplayer camera system and have been struggling with trying to get unreal to identify my camera i dragged in as the main camera. ive used the set veiw target with blend node and everything and stil nothing. In the pictures above you can see my current set up and then what happens when i hit play. Anyone know what i can do about this?

[tight schooner]

How does it find the next grid space? If I'm reading you right, this grid movement system was designed by a teammate? I suppose you have to consult with them how they want to handle layered grid spaces. The trap door collapses and the player enters a free fall? I suppose when the player hits the ground, it needs to find the nearest grid space and move to it

The trap door itself ofc needs its own logic to collapse and do some freefall special event

Whatever the implications of that are (animation/vfx, changing movement state on the player, deleting its own grid node... Idk)

[unkempt pawn]

Not super good at this, new to unreal but toyed in unity for years. but what exactly are you trying to do here?

Cause it looks like your trying to make a new third person camera to me, which the default unreal third person character has the camera in the player

[surreal delta]

we have a grid framework setup to check all neighbors adjacent to every grid around it.

Instance editable, it knows its forward, backward, left, and right neighbors but doesn't currently understand how to handle entering a grid space from vertical. Every time the player moves it gets a copy of the spaces in the level instance it can currently enter within those options. If the reference is null, they just do a "stuck" animation

Neighbor heights checks if the next space is supposed to need a jump, double jump , or cant be approached from the current tile they are standing on

[tranquil gorge]

Yes but I want it separate from the character. Which is why I made a separate actor blueprint instead with a camera in it. The cameras actions will be affected by both players movement which is why it's not just on one person.

[astral epoch]

Okay guessing you're probably the one to ask about events then.
I want to bind controls. I figured I can use signatures to "copy" input values. How can I get multiple execution pins though, like with the "mouse click" stuff? They have pressed/released pins.

[paper galleon]

Those are some specialized functions. You'd have to do C++ stuff for that

[astral epoch]

damn

Didn't want to dive into C++ this early into the project.

Actually I might have a workaround but its a bit janky.

Event dispatcher gets a boolean added to it basically for "is pressed" state.

[flat coral]

Incredibly stupid problem: I'm using FloatingPawnMovement component on this pawn, and apparently when I use MoveTo it's trying to move this pawn's "feet" to the target location, based on the size of it's collision sphere? This is causing all kinds of issues, like a weird upward bias on movement and making it really hard to sweep a sphere on the pawn's path.
How do I make FloatingPawnMovement operate on the CENTER of the actor and not some weird idea of "feet" that doesn't even apply?

[astral epoch]

Then the pressed/released exec pins can go into two versions of the event call but with the boolean set differently?

it fucking worked

[unkempt pawn]

So.. not really good at this but sounds like 2 player splitscreen sort of deal, and your trying to have the camera do a follow and track 2 players simultaneously I would think this video would work and help its a two parter but I think this is what your trying to do https://youtu.be/VATImPiTj1g

[paper galleon]

Yeah that's a better option. Or a flip flop node

[astral epoch]

Binding at top-left, input top-right, varying control schemes based on binding bottom

Though now it has a problem. Press during Squad, hold when it switches, releases during Character.
Any way to force an input event?

Or cancel it?

[tranquil gorge]

Thanks again however I'm actually following that exact series of tutorials lol.

[unkempt pawn]

Alright, welp sorry I wasnt of much help

[supple needle]

hey all, I have a midi triggered event that retriggers a strobe light, curious how i can set it up to either end after a certain time or use the same midi key to cancel the retrigger?

[tranquil gorge]

Thanks for trying to help me at all 😋

[unkempt pawn]

There is this first comment which might be a direction Just in case anyone else has the problem I had:

When playing, my camera would revert to the BP_Players Third Person Camera, and if I deleted that it would revert to a first person view.

After a great deal of messing around, I found a simple workaround. In BP_Camera's Event Graph, add a "Delay" node between "Event BeginPlay" and "Class Setup". The delay needs to only be 0.01 seconds. For whatever reason, BP_Player seemed to be overriding the camera when possessed, OR BP_Camera might not be finding the information it needs from BP_Player. So by adding in the delay, the players spawn first, and then the camera comes in over the top.

I hope that helps someone. Excellent tutorials by the way - I like that they don't dwell on things for too long, and just power through.

Which I assume is what it was doing actually

[tranquil gorge]

Wow that sounds very similar to my issue I am cooking food but I can't wait to try this out! Will get back to you with the results.😊

Ty lots

[unkempt pawn]

Good luck to you hope that fix works

[burnt canyon]

How do you grab a bone position with out using sockets?

oh get socket works for bone wth

[woven pond]

I am unable to find any info on sorting arrays in the documentation am i being super dumb or is it just not in blueprint? (Want to sort the the game states all players array by order of a float)

[woven pond]

😦 ty

[astral epoch]

Is it possible to connect nodes on two separate graphs in the same bp?

Not meaning the constructor graph btw, one you can create yourself. Apparently its a good way of organising things.

[paper galleon]

You can collapse a group of nodes into a graph.

[astral epoch]

Aren't those macros?

[paper galleon]

You should see an input and output exec pin that allows you to chain graphs

[paper galleon]

Nope just subgraphs for better organizations

[astral epoch]

Right.

[tawdry surge]

Better ways to lose track of stuff

[astral epoch]

Any way to do it without the collapsing thing?

[tawdry surge]

Functions, macros, custom events, interfaces

[astral epoch]

I meant getting the execution pin into a graph.

You know when you click the + button on the graph list to make a new EventGraph?

[tawdry surge]

Yeah. You shouldn't be doing that. It's a good way to lose track of things. The other things I just listed are better for encapsulating logic

[astral epoch]

How do you lose things that way?

It seems like you can still access the custom events regardless of graph and it keeps things separated out.

[tawdry surge]

By spreading everything out across multiple graphs you now have to remember which graph held what logic and you'll do alot more popping around for no reason. If you have something worthy of it's own graph then it should probably be a function, macro, or component to make it more reusable. Otherwise your just hiding things from yourself that you'll have to track down later

[astral epoch]

So for context my player controller is supposed to handle a variety of different control types, since Unreal is seemingly incapable of changing player controllers during runtime. Different means of interacting with the game in a single level is handled in one controller. Think an FPS where you not only run around but can drive land vehicles and air vehicles. Don't you think its worthwhile having different graphs for each of those appropriately titled? I don't imagine it would be hard to lose flying controls when you have a graph literally called "flying"

I could be wrong but I don't believe you can use components for controllers.

Functions and Macros have their own pros and cons depending on what you're trying to achieve with it.

[surreal peak]

Different controls go into different pawns/characters

[tawdry surge]

Correct I would not have different graphs. For movement types I'd pry do components or pawns

[surreal peak]

PlayerController holds pawn-less input, like "Open Menu"

UE5 also pushes hard towards the usage of components for gameplay features

In combination with other engine features such as input, which Lyra all applies dynamically

[astral epoch]

That's fair, though it really pushes towards using the possession system which doesn't necessarily work with all game designs?

[flint mulch]

does anyone have good advice on how to learn how to apply blueprints to actually making a game, so many broken up parts I've seen probably over 7 hrs of content and I still don't know how to apply any of this to what I want to do

[surreal peak]

Then use Components

Either way putting everything into one class is nonesense

Especially in BPs

Get ready for 10+ seconds to save the damn file

And even longer to simply compile it

[surreal peak]

My advice would be learning the framework of the engine first. 7h is not a lot.

UEs default documentation should be enough to start with that

[flint mulch]

wdym by UE default documentation? like the descripton boxes that pop up when u hover

[astral epoch]

So why exactly is there a feature to add graphs in the first place?

[surreal peak]

No, website docs

[surreal peak]

To organize your BP a bit

[tawdry surge]

Its a trap

[surreal peak]

That said

[astral epoch]

Well that's what I was wanting to do but apparently its "just a way to lose everything"

[surreal peak]

I never use that feature

Neither do I use those subgraphs

[astral epoch]

Wow what a wonderfully terrible program designed to frustrate its users I guess.

[surreal peak]

My goodness my phone autocorrects everything atm

[surreal peak]

I can't actually deny that

Having worked with it for years now

That can def be the impression

[astral epoch]

I mean me neither, it has its limitations. But I've never seen one intentionally designed to be a complete waste of resources.

[tranquil gorge]

@unkempt pawn Hey just getting back to you about my previous cam issue letting you know that all is well thanks to your help. Adding the 0.01 delay between the event begin play and class set up function was the key! Have a wonderful day! 🥳

[surreal peak]

The BP system itself is kinda flawed (: it got a lot better but it was originally never meant to allow coding full games

[astral epoch]

Typically when something isn't user friendly its because its a super advanced feature that can't be made easier to use... not something that's completely pointless, superceded by other features but never removed because.... reasons.

[astral epoch]

Oh for sure. Doesn't stop universities teaching only in that.

[surreal peak]

Of course not

[astral epoch]

Speaking from experience. A lot of designers I worked with see absolutely no point in learning code because "blueprint does it all".

[surreal peak]

Yop, that's why I can run a full company based on engineering support for bigger studios :D

[astral epoch]

Got into a debate that nearly turned into a physical fight because he wanted programmers to be banned from group projects....

[surreal peak]

Lovely

[astral epoch]

Anyways I figured I can just make a customevent in the other graph and call that. Not sure how good it is to chain event to event to event like that though.

[surreal peak]

Either way the Engine has LOTS of features that are dead ends or need to be handled with care

[astral epoch]

For sure.

[surreal peak]

I would wrap stuff into components tbh

And if you have different pawns then put the controls for them there

It's better OOP wise anyway

Again, Lyra just plugs components with features onto pawns

And registers custom input mappings runtime

Bit more complex but powerful

[dreamy kindle]

Hi all. So quick question, have you encountered any issues with uasset files failing to load in when cooking or packaging a project? I've been dealing with this since last night all the way up until I had to leave for work, but it's like 50% of the problem I had that forced me to do that fresh project file and transfer stuff over a while back ( the other 50% being nodes had changed up as well as bugs of my own doing ). It seems to be entirely related to the "ZombiePackV1" animation files, and only if I try to build the project into an exe with them included.

Here's a snipped of the Output Log: https://pastebin.com/DpY69KGM

[astral epoch]

I guess the mention of pawns brings up the question how exactly do you handle event delegations with that then?

[tawdry surge]

I'm working on a digital card game with a client. I'm trying to decide if we should do the abilities as a base class with children for each type, or one effects class with generic functions handling the effect types?

[surreal peak]

Which events?

[astral epoch]

Well the plan was to have an enum in the controller for different "control modes" of sorts. The whole FPS foot/vehicle/air thing.
When that switches, it rebinds the input controls to different custom events.

[surreal peak]

Ehh

[astral epoch]

That way I'm not trying to tell a human character (regardless of who's possessed) to try to take off.

[surreal peak]

Just posses the pawn you wish to control

It gets the input events first

You won't tell a human character to take off anyway as that character would never have input or code for it

The possession enables the input routing

[astral epoch]

Alright.

[surreal peak]

Your character would have input events like Move forward, Jump, Crouch

And the matching code

Your plane has other input events

[astral epoch]

My thought was to have the characters be able to accept input from either player or AI, so the idea of having them directly influence by controls seems a bit off.

[surreal peak]

AI vs Player is a whole nother story

In the end the AI would call the same events like the player

[astral epoch]

Aye, but its why I want to avoid directly putting control into the pawns.

[surreal peak]

Just not through input

[astral epoch]

Cause the way I saw it was that the controller was for, well, controlling.

And pawn was just puppetted by that?

[surreal peak]

Kinda

The controller is more about the player than the pawn

But you would not put pawn controls into the controller

You can put OpenMenu into it

Which has to work even without pawns possessed

Stuff like that

[astral epoch]

I honestly don't see why not? Isn't it bad practice to put similar functionality (in this case input handling) across multiple classes?

[surreal peak]

Not really

All you do is bind an event to an input binding name. The handling of it is something you probably won't encounter :P

You still make sure your humanoid movement code is in the humanoid character

And your plane movement code is in the plane

Moving everything into one class is way worse

[astral epoch]

Movement would still be in those classes, but in a way that it is agnostic to whether a player or AI is telling it to do so?

[surreal peak]

Well either way, you are free to code your project the way you want. This is just what I do, did and will do, cause the last 7+ years have shown that it's working well

[astral epoch]

Fair enough.

[surreal peak]

This is advice you can follow or ignore. I won't mind

[astral epoch]

Think that's the curse with most engines like this, you can do the same thing in multiple ways.

I'll try it my way and see if it works at all.

Cheers for the advice~

[surreal peak]

I would say the curse is that these engines expect you to do some stuff in one specific way and you only learn that either by chance or by first doing it wrong

Being able to do something in multiple ways isn't bad if all those ways are okay

Unrelated to the input stuff

[astral epoch]

Mhm.

[faint pasture]

What's the elegant way to do that?
Just put an event layer between input events and the actual business of doing the thing?

Ai -> StartSprint -> Sprint logic
InputEvent -> StartSprint -> Sprint logic
?

Where the naive approach is InputEvent -> Sprint Logic.

Is there a way to have AI call input events or are those player-only all the time?

[surreal peak]

The ugliness comes from BPs again

In CPP you bind a function to an input

That function can be called by AIs too

If you directly code your logic behind an input event in BPs then you lose the ability of calling that code "by hand"

So yes, place an event layer between it

I don't think AIs can call inputs as that is handled through classes that don't exist for AIs

AIs "input events" would for example be the behavior tree tasks

And movement is handled completely different anyway if they use navmeshes

But e.g. a button that fires a weapon should call a fire weapon function so AIs can call that from a task

[heady jay]

is it possible to have a custom event with multiple execution outputs, such as the pressed and released execution on the InputAction Events

[surreal peak]

Yes and no

Macros allow this, but they aren't "real" functions/events.
I can't recall a BP way to do this.
C++ has multiple ways that depend on what you need.

Other than that not sure.

[heady jay]

Thank you so much!

I'll have to look into macros

[runic parrot]

Just in case anyone else have this problem, i found a solution.
Sometines when you use Class SoftReferences on Datatables, when you restart the editor, they will be gone and you need to recompile the classes.
A quick workaround is to go into your Content Folder (the main) and click "Validate assets on folder".

[west lynx]

Hello everyone, I am new at learning blueprints in Unreal Engine and was wondering if anyone here knows any good tutorials to start learning

[runic parrot]

If you are not aiming for nothing specific, start here maybe.
https://www.unrealengine.com/en-US/learn?lang=en_US&state=%2F4.26%2Fen-US%2FBasics%2FGettingStarted%2F&sessionInvalidated=true

If you are looking for something specific, maybe go to youtube and search for "-Your thing- Blueprint ue4"

[runic parrot]

Does anyone remember how to Substract DateTime to Datetime? i want to do "Datetime - DateTime" and get the total seconds, minutes, hours, etc.

[calm citrus]

Hey Guys.... I'm stuck again. I thought I was smart but UE5 proves me once again I am not, Basically I want the two blueprints keypad and door to interact with each other so Once I collect the orbs I can use the keypad to unlock the door so my player can walk through. However It is not working and I am not seeing what the issue is

[runic parrot]

it's quite easy, put a flag "locked" on the door and change it when criteria is meet

[thin panther]

you havent actually set a reference to that keypad is what that error means

you have your var/input but are not passing anything into it

[stable dove]

Rolling two dice and displaying there score

[thin panther]

ok?

[stable dove]

trying to figure out how i would 2x the score when a double is rolled

but i might just give them another turn

idk

[calm citrus]

How do I do that inside my interface?

or do i do it in the door bp?

[thin panther]

idk where you do it

you have an input that is not ebing set

that is all i know

[wise tide]

Is there any reason to do behaviour on the player controller over the player bp if I only have 1 player bp? For example a pause menu?

I could see why if the player could choose different characters or had a different character when they died or something. Maybe there is another benefit I dont see

[calm citrus]

How would I do that? I've never flagged something before

[dark crow]

a flag is usually just a bool

[calm citrus]

hmm

I'll see what I can do and come back if I am still struggling

[faint pasture]

Isn't binding a function to an input effectively the same as
Input -> Event -> Logic
So I think the layer between the input and event is the way to go and the same in both domains.

[stable dove]

How can i make sure that these two dice dont spawn overlapping each other if i was randomising there position when spawning them?

[quiet shuttle]

Im confused on how I can update the widgets I created if the amount in the inventory changes, or if more items are added. Right now my bp just creates widgets for the items in the inventory map at event construct.

[short pawn]

You could set 2 variables for the random and then on the second spawn actor make a branch and make sure the variables are not equal to each other otherwise set the second variable again

[runic parrot]

Did they remove datetime functionality on UE5?
Picture below is UE4, that function is not on UE5.

[trim matrix]

When the inventory changes, rerun all of that code. Just refill the whole inventory scroll box.

The only extra step is that you need to first clear the content scroll box

The function is called clear children I believe.

[dawn gazelle]

Which function?

The subtract?

[runic parrot]

Yeah, i got the same result turning the DateTime Struct to TimeSpan and subtract those. But weird i can't do it directly with DateTime

Also TimeSpan is limited to Days at most so i need to do even more convertions if i want to check dates bigger than 1 month

[dawn gazelle]

My guess is it is a bug with how they've set up subtract nodes to work now. If you right click on the pin on the node, you can select a DateTime structure, but as soon as you try to connect the DateTime to it, it fails and converts it to a timespan pin.

[quiet shuttle]

You're the best, thank you so much

[near shard]

For some reason either my "Get all children" or "For Each Loop" node isnt working, I have 2 children, the game will add both children, but when I need to destroy them all the engine only gets rid of once

for context in the first pic, The two added is the child being added in, the destroyed was only one of the items being removed, and the 2 is the length of the array

Fixed it using a WhileLoop instead of a foreachloop

[runic parrot]

Yeah i saw that one too, i'm gonna report it as a bug.

[dark crow]

It's just saying that CharRef is a nullptr aka is empty

[dawn gazelle]

The errors you've shown have nothing to do with the code you've shown. What's probably the problem is you're creating UI on, or based on, a character.

Well considering Game Mode is only present on the server, that could be your problem right there. Other clients can't access it.

[trim matrix]

Is there an event for actor is overlapping?

I dont want to do a set timer by event if possible

I dont want something running constantly in the background just need it to run while im overlapping it

[tight schooner]

Ostensibly https://docs.unrealengine.com/4.27/en-US/BlueprintAPI/Collision/OnActorBeginOverlap/

[trim matrix]

No it's not that one

[tight schooner]

You want a ticking event?

[trim matrix]

Yeah but i dont want it running all the time

Only when the overlap starts then it disables itself after some time

[tight schooner]

There's a node IIRC named Set Actor Tick Enable. You can use that to enable/disable tick manually.

[trim matrix]

Im making a dialog system and i have a collision box attached to my player, I need to activate dialog when the box is overlapped and E is pressed, problem is it only activates if the E key was pressed at the moment the overlap begun, meaning if I press E after that moment nothing will happen unless i exit the overlap and enter it again while holding E

[trim matrix]

Ill look into it thx

[tight schooner]

Huh. Can't you just check if there's an overlap when E is pressed?

Doesn't seem to need a ticking event

There should be a boolean pure function or otherwise node for is actor overlapping

In any case it would make sense to put your event logic on the interact button action

When E key is pressed, get overlapping actors, pick the one that has a dialog interface or whatever

[trim matrix]

get overlapping actors as a function doesnt exist

[cyan birch]

When you overlap the collision, set a bool like 'IsInRange' or something to true. Then, when the player hits 'E' it checks to see if 'IsInRange' is true with another bool. If it is true, play the dialogue, if it isn't, then nothing happnes.

[trim matrix]

it's the component that needs overlap with the actor not the actor to actor so i cant use that

[trim matrix]

hm ill try that

[tight schooner]

Sorry, I don't have UE open rn. If you dig around I'm sure there's something. Maybe there's a function you can use on your dialog collision component

if there's not one for the actor class

[trim matrix]

Thanks!! That was so simple, hate that i didnt think of it 😡

[cyan birch]

Make sure when you end overlap, you set that bool to false or it will work forever lol.

[tight schooner]

ok, I opened UE. These exist:

[cyan birch]

Later, if you find this gets messy with several things in range, you'll have to set up a system that gets all of the actors in range then pick the closest or something when 'E' is pressed.

[cyan birch]

Yea, this is another solid way to do it for sure.

[gentle urchin]

That would run on tick tho^^ personally i dont like this type , but the alternatives are not that many

Either mouse or some linetrace in camera direction, or a get nearest setup

[tight schooner]

Interact via overlaps is kinda BP 101... There are probably a dozen examples in Epic's own Content Examples pack

[gentle urchin]

Yepp

StackOBot aswell

Using an interaction component iirc

[cyan birch]

How would this run on tick? I'm not disagreeing, I'm genuinely asking, I'm not a BP wizard lol.

[gentle urchin]

Well youd need to update the nearest interactable each time you move, and axis events are tick driven

[cyan birch]

Oh no, no, I was saying you'd enter the volume, set the bool true, then when you press the interact button, it would get all the actors in the interact radius, then check which is closet, then interact with that one. It would only check one time upon pressing the interact key. Then the bool would set false when you left the radius.

[gentle urchin]

Ahh, ok yeah that'f be different for sure 😄 I automatically assume some pre interact highlight , my bad :p

[cyan birch]

Ah nope, not that advanced yet haha, just letting him k now he will have to set something like this up if two of his interactable are close to each other or it would fire for both.

[gentle urchin]

Generally one would avoid two things listening for ineraction in the first place

Like pawn has the interact event, and it interacts with the latest set 'Interactable'

[surreal peak]

That's what I meant (:

[trim matrix]

No idea why this isn't work

It works once perfectly and that's it

Once you leave the overlap and enter it again and press E nothing happens because the print strings aren't firing

[gentle urchin]

Id use the overlap to set the interactable in the character

And interact with it there

[trim matrix]

Why isn't it working?

[late gorge]

is there a way to modify a float curve (or any curve) asset at runtime?

and then save it

[trim matrix]

thats literally what i just did

It works great the first time and doesnt after makes no sense

did the same thing in ue4, works fine

Made a new project in UE5, I'm not getting the same bug

UE5 is just a mess or something

or my assets are fucked and are screwing up the engine so i cant migrate assets anymore

[gentle urchin]

Also the first branch on E after setting the bool to true serves no purpose

[serene bramble]

So I have an issue with my keybind. I have a toggle set up in my level blueprint to show a widget and set the input mode to UI only so you can interact. Unfortunately it then seems that the level blueprint isn't receiving keybinds once I've set the input mode to UI only. How would I change this or make it so pressing the key again will then toggle my code again?

(for reference, this is the keybind code used in the level blueprint - shows widget fine but won't toggle once the widget is open)

Yeah, it's a UI menu that just has to show up when you hit J and hide if you hit it again. And it's in a custom level manager (an actor in the level) as that's how we've been taught in the course I'm doing (- this is for an assessment there)

Soo it's kind of all set up in there already and works ok otherwise. Would moving it to the player get the keybind to work?

I did a bit of googling and found this answer https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/bp-set-input-mode-ui-only/345632 so might try it, not sure

I did try but I can't get the option for InputAction to show up in the UI's blueprint

Hm, thought maybe I could cast back to the level manager somehow but got these errors. Not sure what I'd provide

Pretty much, we aren't taught too much. I'm only doing said course so I don't fail school but I've honestly found myself enjoying this a bit more

But uh yeah not sure what to plug into said cast?

Ah, okay

So it's okay now but yeah that guide didn't eventually work so not sure

Adding a print string just after the on key down also never logs so er, dunno

Any other suggestions as to how to get around it? Hacky is okay

Hm, just gave the suggestion there a go and didn't work either

So, I managed to get it working by using "set input mode game and UI" and then temp disabling input to the player (still allows keybinds through)
However my mouse cursor no longer shows in the UI widget

I unticked this but no difference

[late gorge]

on your player controller, set "show mouse cursor"

[serene bramble]

Sick! Thank you!

(not too noticable yet as my widget is just a blur - asked a question in #umg relating to it - but you can see toggling and the mouse work now c:)

[icy pilot]

Is there a better way than this here to make ACharacter with its ACharacterMovementComponent work on NonHumanoids ?

This extra collision box will prevent things going into the cow body, but if the cow would e.g. walk backwards and there's a wall the body would still go into the wall till the CapsuleComponent will prevent it

[late gorge]

change the collision settings to match that of the capsule component

[icy pilot]

That doesn't change things afaik

[gentle urchin]

How about tracing instead

[late gorge]

that should change things, you might be missing something that changes the collision settings

[gentle urchin]

Guess that would be unreliable

[late gorge]

there's the possibility the collisions you're working with have some sort of check against the capsule component specifically

tho that's spaghetti bolognese territory

there would need to be some really good reason for that

[icy pilot]

I've read a lot on this and the problem is that the CMC will use the CapsuleComponent collision when moving, but not the other existing ones

I see how that can work

[late gorge]

so unparent the mesh

if you can't, None the existing and add another that isn't parented

[icy pilot]

I don't even think that i'd have something in the AI which allows backwards walking, but i don't know the future so that's kinda a just in case fear from me xD

[bronze hill]

what is difference between data asset and Uobject? i think uobject can contain function. then why use data asset? it's faster?

I'm trying to understand what you mean😅

[mental trellis]

UObjects are, by default, transient things, unless they are "owned" by something which is saved.

Data Assets are just another way to save that uobject - as an asset in your content browser.

[bronze hill]

ah thank you uobjects are transient things!

[mental trellis]

See the last part of that sentence, also very important.

[bronze hill]

thank you Lorash and Daekesh!

I will try to use it accurately

[mental trellis]

And actors generally aren't transient because they're owned by a level (also a uobject) which is owned by a world/map (also a uobject) - but that map/world is an asset.

[bronze hill]

i used to use uobject for storing something.

[trim matrix]

can someone please explain more detailed what this node does?

[mental trellis]

It rotates a vector by the inverse of a rotation.

Let's say you have a vector (1,0,0) and rotation it by 90 degrees on the z axis, it becomes (0,1,0)

If you unrotate by that same 90 degrees on the z axis, it goes back to (1,0,0)

[bronze hill]

when i create actor blueprint and place level, it automatically owned by world?

[mental trellis]

The instance is yes

[viscid flower]

I have this set up to toggle between day and night with a button. It seems to work the first time when I press the button, but it won't flip again if I press again. Am I missing something here >.< ?

[fiery swallow]

wouldn't you need to unload one to load the other?

once they're both loaded they're loaded

that's probably why it only works once

[trim matrix]

thanks

[cyan bone]

I have a human 3d figure. It is quite expensive and detailed. Id like it to be more cheap with less triangles. How can i do this? Or where can i find simplified 3d figures, not very realistic but convincing?

[icy dragon]

LODs.

[mental trellis]

It's useful, for instance, to convert actor/component offsets to local actor space instead of world space.

Do you have a crash log?

[young blaze]

Is it possible to use pawn sensing on the player pawn to detect noise emitted from a audiosource?

[viscid flower]

Yeah I suspect that's the issue but wasn't sure how to go about it. I can try adding unload previous mode command first

[tawdry surge]

@pale blade you using 5?

[pale blade]

Yeah, 5.0.1

[icy dragon]

Why not just flip flop the level visibility?

Assuming this is for interior and no outside view

Also looking at your vids, which seem to be for V-Tuber, more instantaneous switch might make sense based on that Level Stream setup.

Though I'd personally consider more seamless transitions determined by the real world clock, as in the lights from outside are gradually changing and inside lights went on.

[cyan bone]

Is there any advantage in terms of performance to use a paper2dSprite vs an instanced static mesh of a plane with a texture?

[icy dragon]

I suppose Paper2D sprites are more specialised in that manner, more so than performance reasons?

But eh, nobody's using Paper2D anyway.

[cyan bone]

Thanks. The reason i ask this is because i have done instanced static mesh planes with textures. But now im having difficult making shadows on them. And seems the Paper2DSprite has it automated

[icy dragon]

Are you using Masked or Translucent blend mode?

[cyan bone]

Masked. Its a png texture with invisible background

[gentle urchin]

Did you try doing this in niagara? ^^ considering the amount you've envisioned

[icy dragon]

Is this supposed to be distant crowd?

Then Paper2D is perhaps out of scope for billboard distant crowd

[cyan bone]

wait. its casting shadow

it was not casting shadow

[cyan bone]

yup its a lot of these soldiers everywhere

[icy dragon]

I mean, if you place them far away and in high quantity, the shadows are not as important as something upclose.

Also use Niagara to assemble a fake crowd

[cyan bone]

I considered doing it in niagara. But its way more complex it seems. I watched a video yesterday of niagara crowds. And it seems more useful if i need it animated. But this unit is not animated, is just a figure that moves around
As it is, i need to control them around, and move them in formations and make them fight. I thinkt that would be hard in niagara

[icy dragon]

Niagara can do boids btw

[cyan bone]

@gentle urchin @icy dragon his is how it is going for the moment. It seems its very cheap and its working. Its 80 soldiers per actor. All instanced static mesh of plane with texture. And when they walk they are animated using lerp, up and down. What do you think? Would niagara be better in this situation?

[icy dragon]

I won't download troubleshooting videos on Discord - remux it to MP4 so that it uses Discord's embedded player.

[cyan bone]

Sorry my bad.
https://streamable.com/484inz

yup thats the video i watched yesterday. But there are parts that are very complex to follow.

do you think niagara would be more suitable for the project i showed above?

[icy dragon]

Yes (and can be no)

And by going full GlassBeaver, making instanced skeletal mesh of millions while maintaining high framerate.

I suppose the how to is a trade secret

[cyan bone]

I already made a reforming function. And an envelope function. Lerping the instances individually. It works.
I dont know how much control i would have with niagara.
The only thing that i think might make me change the format to niagara, is if i cant go over like 10k units. That could be like 500 of this square actors with instanced static meshes.

give or take

10k instanced static meshes that dont have animations.

yup its better to do it now, than regret it all later

[icy dragon]

Or just use Cascade lmao

[serene bramble]

Is it possible to add a settings menu where you can dynamically change the following things?

• fullscreen/borderless fullscreen/windowed
• resolution (dropdown with the display's resolutions it can do ie. 1280x720, 1920x1080, 2560x1440)
• controls (ie. the ones mapped in Project Settings -> Input)

(more so, I mean can I change those things through a blueprint, already have a UI set up for settings)

[icy dragon]

Yes.

By using Game User Settings.

Though if you want more granular control over what to toggle, you have to make subclass of GameUserSettings in C++ (subclassing it as a BP is not possible)

You could cheat with Save Game class, but I strongly recommend against it for game settings

Minus not many indie UE4 game implement it properly lol

[serene bramble]

I'll look into that

Also, I use set game paused in my pause menu. Is there a way to see if the game is paused?

Or should I track that myself with a bool set in my level?

[icy dragon]

Is Game Paused

removes SteamVR plugin outright

[serene bramble]

🙃 my tired brain was looking for "get game paused" lmao, thank you

If I maximise my game's preview window, it seems to act up weird (entire window goes black unless I click off for a bit, then it comes good. Ui is still interactable with while it's black)

[gentle socket]

Good day. :) I have a "settings" BP that just contains a bunch of Data Tables. How can I go about getting these tables from any other BP? Do I have to give each of these BPs a reference to this table?

[mental trellis]

If it's just a static list of data that never changes, you could get the default object for the bp and access them from that.

[serene bramble]

Hmm

Interesting?

[olive sedge]

hey guys.. is it possible to overwrite a custom event in a child bp class?

[trim matrix]

hey guys where is the best place to ask beginner questions for understanding the fundamentals?

[mental trellis]

#ue5-general ?

[astral granite]

Guys, good morning

I'm having a problem

I literally can't open anything in my project. Not even an empty map...

I've already tried to migrate my content, Fix Up Redirectors, Validate Data, disable all the plugins... but the files are not corrupted, because if I paste the uasset file in another empty project it opens...

[young blaze]

anyone has an idea how i can get the volume of an spatialized audiosource received by the player camera? I want to get the current volume received by the camera of an audiosource as a float

[astral granite]

I don't have

I had a backup but I formatted the PC and lost it

[young blaze]

wasnt sure which channel fits

[astral granite]

I just wanted to know how to solve this.... Because it came out of nowhere, I was working on the project and I went to play a little and went back to work on it, when I came back it was like this

I will pass the log then

Okay, that gave me a light at the end of the tunnel... I'll look for it.

[olive sedge]

hey guys.. is it possible to overwrite a custom event in a child bp class?

[astral granite]

Ok

Thanks

I DELETED WEAPON SYSTEM

AND WORKED

Thankssss

You are my hero

Yeah

I will make that now

[trim matrix]

Hey so i broke my movement somehow. its only detecting the mouse movement from right and left not up and down

[sonic crest]

hello, is it possible to open a blueprint node (already existed) in C++??

like opening the Delay Node in C++ and see how it functions. when I double click it says "Reading C++ Symbols" bit does not open it

[trim matrix]

better quality

[sonic crest]

your lookup is not connected

without the executing pin connected is like a commented out line of code

[cyan surge]

How do you refresh a thumbnail?

[trim matrix]

Ah yeah but thats not the problem. I put there a print string with the float attached and it was printing the y movement but the camera and the character wasnt doing anything just right and left works

[cyan bone]

im using Get Location at Distance Along Spline. And using a for loop with index i get through locations in the spline.
At first it gets the distance accurate 200 cm <-
But then when it turns around it turns into a way shorter distance. I dont know why.
Then when it turns around again it becomes 200 cm again.
Why is it getting shorter distance locations when it turned?

[tight pollen]

how to make a smooth transition from animation to ragdoll

someone can help me?

any suggestions

[gentle urchin]

what are you doing differently when "turned" ?

[cyan bone]

nothing. its just a spline, that turns

[gentle urchin]

the spline turns?

[cyan bone]

yup the spline turns

[gentle urchin]

so you're moving to dist(200), dist(400), dist(600) or what?

[cyan bone]

yup as the index increases, its multiplying by the index

so it should be 200, 400 , 600, 800

[gentle urchin]

and what does the spline look like ?

[cyan bone]

The spline is not showing even with set debug draw for splines

[gentle urchin]

Are you using constant tangents?

If not carefull, they easily become looped

you can see it when simulating ,

selecting the actor, then the spline component

[cyan bone]

The blue dots are the dots that make up the spline.

[cyan bone]

constant tangents?

[gentle urchin]

hide the ISM

or whatever you're using as representation of the unit

[cyan bone]

hide the spears?

i have hiden the ISM

[gentle urchin]

the spline should be white line

point type

for the spline

[cyan bone]

@gentle urchin Im just using points and making a spline with set point

thats how i make them

[trim matrix]

Hi everyone! how can i change the world transform of a scene component in a BP?

is there a node to do so?

[cyan bone]

set world transform

[trim matrix]

thank you!

[glass stump]

don't know if i should ask here (direct me eslewhere if so), but, in a not too complicated way in blueprints, any one got any ideas for what would make interesting puzzles to open doors? currently i just have 'press a button, or multiple buttons, to open a door' but i feel like that's gonna get stale quick. but i'm not sure what else to do.

i guess like a keycard component would add some variety, but it's not much different i feel.

[cyan bone]

make the player do some lock picking mini game 🙂

[gentle urchin]

Then get your visual up and check the points. I suspect they are roundabouts

[glass stump]

ah, that's a good idea! :) thank you. :)

[cyan bone]

it doesnt show the splines i tried also the console command showflag.showspline, and the set debug draw for the spline show.

All i can do is get the points of the spline and debug draw the points

[gentle urchin]

Not really sure what you need the spline for tho^^ is it how you setup the pathing?

[cyan bone]

I get a convex hull of the enemy units. Thats all the outer points of all the units. Then i make a spline out of those points. Thats the corresponding targets for my attacking units. So my units envelope the other army.

it must be a spline around the other army. it wasnt easy to do this. so if you can think of an alternative, maybe i could just change.

[trim matrix]

hey

anyone know why the disable movement node is not working?

the AI can still move while playing the animation

it was working before

[fast stag]

is the new custom mode 0 just setting the mode to whatever the first enum is? Did that change? Meaning if you click the drop down whats the top option?

[fast stag]

I noticed that MaxWalkSpeed changes are instant. Meaning if I set it to 0 from 600 the character instantly stops. Is there a braking speed or do people build lerping functions to manage that? I set Braking Friction Factor to 0 which seem to soften it, but that seems wrong to me.

[gentle urchin]

I'd expect it to use some deacceleration speed but cant recall seeing that. Perhaps lerping is the way

[cyan bone]

@gentle urchin squize i found the bug 🤣 . it was 6. making it back to 1, fixed the problem

[tacit mesa]

I have this endgame function where Input Mode gets set to UI Only and some End Screen UI is shown, but if this happens while holding WASD the character keeps moving forever but doesn't accept inputs. Using Disable Input on Player Controller does nothing. But if instead of Player Controller i pass Player Pawn as Target to Disable Input, then the character stops moving. Why?

side-note, the character is standard First person starter character

[last abyss]

because the pawn handles movement, the controller just tells the pawn to do the movement

I guess when you disable input on controller, it keeps all the values it has at that point (so WASD down at the moment of disabling input keeps WASD down) didn't test this theory though

[tacit mesa]

So that would mean that Disable Input just makes in not accept new input, but keeps the values it has at that point

[last abyss]

I have run into the same issue myself before, but I ended up fixing it by using the stop movement immediately node instead of testing the root cause

That's my best guess, but i'll give it a test since I want to know now

[tacit mesa]

ok after some googling, i see someone say that Disable Input makes it ignore the "release" input event

[last abyss]

Yeah that seems right, just odd I thought disabling input would at least call those events

[tacit mesa]

same

[remote meteor]

you can do that yourself but you will need c++ player controller

https://docs.unrealengine.com/4.26/en-US/API/Runtime/Engine/GameFramework/UPlayerInput/#:~:text=void-,FlushPressedKeys(),-Flushes the current

[tacit mesa]

you mean programmatically flush all pressed inputs? I guess, but in my particular situation it's enough to stop the pawn, one other solution would be to Set Ignore Move Input, but that still doesn't release the movement buttons

[remote meteor]

PlayerInput is already a variable in APlayerController

its just isnt exposed to blueprints

FlushPressedKeys() will release all current pressed key regardless of the physical key state

you can call that function when you switch input mode to ui only

[tacit mesa]

I see, thank you Kira and IAsaka

[remote meteor]

np, well thats only if you are comfortable with having c++ classes

else you might want to do your own input checker within the InputAxis event in blueprint

[near glen]

Can someone hint me to some tutorials? I want to implement same node trees mechanics in my project like blueprints themselves (nodes, inputs and outputs, connections between e.t.c). Don't understand how to name it properly to find tutorials

[faint pasture]

Does the pawn have input events?

[faint pasture]

Scree tutorials, do it yourself.

Google Adjacency Lists for a starting point.

Any tutorial on something that complex will probably be crap. Just figure it out. You're probably one of the first to do it if you do it.

[near glen]

that's a lot already, much thanks!

[tacit mesa]

yes, it's the default FirstPersonCharacter

[viscid flower]

This is what I ended up doing and it works. What's the node I can use for level visibility?

[remote meteor]

for streaming levels from the Levels panel

i think thats your only way in bp

because you cant get the Level Streaming Object reference to toggle its visibility there

in blueprint atleast

🍵

or unless you manually do "Load Level Instance (by Name)"

then you can do that

[viscid flower]

trying Levels panel

[undone surge]

is there a way i can make a flip flop work in a function? function is from another class but when i call it in main character bp it just goes into the first branch of the flip flop

[trim matrix]

guyz, is box extend in world unit?

[cyan bone]

How do i make my collision added at runtime visible?
My character collision its visible. But this one doesn't display.

[tawdry surge]

Set "hidden in game" to false

[brisk dagger]

Heya, is it possible to change this property during runtime? Via blueprint, preferably

[cyan bone]

Did that its still not visible 😦

[mellow folio]

Detach and attach?

[soft peak]

how can i get the updated value of playerstart?

[proper tendon]

anyone know how I can create an instance of an object in blueprints and also pass a parameter to it? Till now I've been using this but I can't add custom parameters to it

[soft peak]

i tried it with the method above but it is always the same values when i move the character

[proper tendon]

I think you're not passing a parameter for a player

[soft peak]

i am very new to this, i thought that would be the player? the initial value is correct, but it wont update it

[obtuse herald]

Inside the actor you want to spawn, set the desired variable to expose on spawn

[proper tendon]

Thanks that works!

[gusty shuttle]

Hey guys, what's the way to get an animation length from a skel mesh inside a bp? I know there's a way, I just forget how

[cyan bone]

sorry it was actually visible. but it was relative location so it was in place that was hidden. Thank you.

[wraith crane]

Hey! i using the default fps template for my game and i dont know how to cast to the BP_RIFLE. Can someone help me? i dont know what put in object

[trim matrix]

Hi everyone! memory question.. if i spawn 1 glTFActor, then i destroy it, it should release the memory too isnt it?

[brisk dagger]

I'd rather not do it like that if possible as this object is the child of a CableActor

[trim matrix]

well, i loaded 2000gltf one by one using BP... and memory jump to 64GB... that's why i'm asking

[brisk dagger]

Although I might have to, as setting the rotation to absolute is causing other errors that I don't want

[trim matrix]

everytime i was destroying the actor, then rebuild, etc...

[soft peak]

what is the shortcut of "reroute node"?

oh yeah, thats great thanks

[thorny hornet]

Hey there, a weird question
How do I name a var that basically means "LookAtPosition" or "TrackedPosition" or "TrackedObject", but in one word
Context - I have a Camera that is always looking at this value, the var is a Vector3

||I really don't want to keep my "LookAtPositionMode", "LookAtPositionBeforeTransition", "LookAtPositionTarget", , "LookAtPositionDefault", , "LookAtPositionTransitionValue" named this long XD||

[soft peak]

Q: i calculate the center for the camera between two player
so when the left player moves to left, the cam calc the center of both players and adjust its location,
BUT when the player moves too far left he is out of sight so i would need to adjust the other location-axis of the cam (just like an zoom out)
but i am lost how to do this, any help would be highly appreciated

[olive sedge]

Hey guys.. How do you overwrite custom events in an inheriting blueprint class?

[desert juniper]

you shouldn't worry about variables with long names.
in your I believe you've already listed a really good name for them all.
They should be descriptive enough, that when you come back to the code months later, you're able to tell exactly what they do just from their name, without diving into the code

variables with descriptive names like "LookAtPositionMode", "LookAtPositionBeforeTransition", "LookAtPositionTarget", , "LookAtPositionDefault", , "LookAtPositionTransitionValue" are examples of good self documented code

[runic parrot]

+1 to what was said above.
Give them long descriptive names, you are going to thank yourself later on the project, also any person that works with you.

[solar needle]

Where i can find turret tutorial that shoot spesific stuff ?

[thorny hornet]

I'm assuming you don't need it to be scalable beyond 2 players, also I assume you don't need to adjust camera angle, also I assume there's no obstructions in the direction where camera looks from (in that case you might try setting up spring in kinda similar way)

[thorny hornet]

Mhm got it, thank you for the answer (also ty Acrisio)

[nocturne slate]

hey for some reason i cannot connect these two, any idea why?

[tawdry surge]

Pull off the output for the vector plus vector node and type in break vector again

[nocturne slate]

i did exactly that

[thorny hornet]

do you have a hovering tooltip saying anything

[nocturne slate]

?

[thorny hornet]

like this

[thorny hornet]

uh ok try restarting UE

or even your PC...

[undone surge]

how to make flip flop inside function

[nocturne slate]

didn't work, imma restart my pc then...

[tawdry surge]

Pretty sure the 3f is the wrong one

You try plain break vector?

[thorny hornet]

Have you tried using the node yet?

[mental trellis]

Are you say that the function isn't "remembering" the flip flop state?

E.g. you call the same function twice and it chooses A both times?

[undone surge]

yes

do i create a variable that rememebers

or smth

[undone surge]

no wat is this

where isthis

[thorny hornet]

Right click - FlipFlop, unless you mean my function I highlighted just to show that FlipFlop isn't limited only to Event Graph

[nocturne slate]

thx, i used the wrong one

how do i get a vector multiplied by a float in unreal engine 5?

how do i make a condition? if x < y then he does other code

i cant find a function for this

[nocturne slate]

im trying to make a thing where if the distance is < than x then the AI will run away, only if the player gets close tho, since this doesn't work (i assume bcs it only calculates the distance once and since the condition is false it will crash bcs it's a infinite loop) how can i update a value each tick? in this case the distance

my logic behind this method was; if the statement is false, it will call the function again and test the condition until it's true

help?

[thorny hornet]

Either add delay

Or just plug it into event tick or an interval event

[nocturne slate]

if the statement is false?

[thorny hornet]

Yes

[nocturne slate]

thx :)

[shrewd zephyr]

What am I supposed to put in this other blue pin?

this is the error

[shrewd zephyr]

For context, I made a basic AI person that follows you when he sees you and I am trying to make it when I shoot him his simulate physics turns on (he falls over and dies)

[mellow folio]

This is failing because CASTTOFIRSTPERSONPROJECTILE is reading from the component pin, but it should read from the Actor pin, which in this case is named "Other" I t hink

because a Firstpersonprojectile is an actor not a component

[shrewd zephyr]

OHHH

Thanks

I thought it was the other blue one

Lol

[quasi folio]

So, what would be the best way to cast to a "level manager" type object, since only 1 exists in my scene.

[upbeat otter]

is there anyway to make a for each loop for a timeline/dynamic material instance instead of copying the same code over and over again

this skips to the last index in the loop ^

[mellow folio]

get actor of class?

[quasi folio]

That'll be the one! Thanks.

[mellow folio]

This implementation fails because you're reusing the Dynamic Instance that got created AND you're reusing the same timeline twice

both of those implementations don't work

You would need to save the DynamicInstances into an array

and then from ONE timeline, loop through the array of instances, and set each desired value

[golden lotus]

Hi I'm trying to recreate the third person template character anim graph, what is the source of the yellow lines here?

[mellow folio]

so what is actually happening there is you're creating a dynamic instance, then starting a timeline, then creating another dynamic instance, then restarting the same one timeline, so the timeline ends up running only one time, and it's reading only the most recently created value for the DynamicInstance

You can apply the same material instance to multiple meshes

assuming they use the same material you should do that

[upbeat otter]

they all use the same material

[mellow folio]

then create hte material before the loop

I think you can plug all the meshes into the node

can take multiple inputs I bet

then save the return value to a variable

you can't rely on the Output pin always being properly retained in memory

especially not as time passes

then the target for this becomes the Variable

[quiet shuttle]

What's the best way to go about making a dynamic inventory with hundreds of different items?

[spark steppe]

thats a nice way of saying that they suck

and dont get the stupid idea, "ok i'll prototype in BP because my struct might change, and then migrate it to c++"

because at the point of changing a BP struct the pain starts

and yea, it's not impossible, but it's a pita, as you have to change everything that uses the struct

[quiet shuttle]

I have a structure and everything, sorry, let me rephrase my question. How would I go about listing hundreds of items in a UI?

I'm currently trying to use a List Tileview but all of my item UI's aren't displaying any info. They're all blank

[mellow folio]

there are a few implementations

many inventories have slots where each slot has an item of a certain count

so for each slot you'll need two peices of information - what is there (NAME) and how many (INT)

so create a struct with two fields - NAME INT

then make an array of that struct

Then in your UI, create a widget that is just a button, with a NAME variable, make it instance editable and exposed on spawn

On construct, Set Text of some text in the button to whatever NAME is

Then, in your container widget, just run logic on construct to go through every item in your inventory (for each loop) and create a widget (the individual button) and add it to some panel, for instance a vertical panel, plugging in the Name of whatever is in that inventory slot into the CreateWidget node

[icy dragon]

#umg

[low marlin]

how do i edit a variable in the level blueprint using an actor blueprint

[obtuse herald]

You can't

[low marlin]

wtf

[icy dragon]

Don't use Level Blueprint.

[quiet shuttle]

My bad, g

[low marlin]

why not

[zealous moth]

@low marlin iirc you can't access it. You are better off using a master class like player controller or game instance or game mode.

[low marlin]

???????

what r those

[zealous moth]

Oh look at the time, it's graphics o clock!

[icy dragon]

As with the very issue you're facing, you can't easily reference anything in level BP from an actor BP.

[low marlin]

oof

hahahahaha i did it

mwahahaha

[icy dragon]

Wow that's jank

[low marlin]

smart tho

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/825782329384763412/826023572693581874/image0.gif

[dapper marsh]

Oh hey @astral epoch, you helped me yesterday, I was having trouble with collisions and you said to use the overlap instead of hit... well it wasn't giving me consistent results until today I also checked to true the "Multy body Overlap" option. Now it works 100% of the times!!

[wicked osprey]

Guys, can I add material in material?

[spiral verge]

Hey all, sorry for the probably trivial question, but how does one assign a component as a default value?

[icy dragon]

Object reference variable?

[subtle crypt]

A component inside the actor and assigning it as the default value in a variable inside the bp

BP has "MyTriggerCapsule" variable object reference and add a trigger capsule component as the default value

[spiral verge]

^ we're working on it together, if anyone is wondering 🙂

[sudden nimbus]

are you just trying to access a component youve added to your actor blueprint?

[subtle crypt]

Yes.

And just want to drag and drop it into the default value for a variable.

But you can't

[sudden nimbus]

you dont need a variable for it

[subtle crypt]

I'm using it in a map, so it is.

Key: This Component - Variable: Struct with data

[hallow gate]

Anyone able to explain to me how "Current Image" is both 7 and 8 at the same time?

I swear I'm doing something insanely dumb right now but I can't figure it out

Forgive the messy BP

Figured that out, haven't figured out why my Array is calling a null on 8

But working on it

[faint badge]

Pure nodes (ones without the white execution pin) get called every time something reads from them, so the first time you do Get it's before your Set node so you have 7, however the next time you call Get it's after the Set node so Current Image is 7, and you end up getting 8 because the + 1 bit is called again

[hallow gate]

Thank you, I figured that part out, what I can't figure out is where my array is going doo-wally and losing itself

One sec

I hope that's visible, effectively I'm checking to see if it reaches the "end" of the array (array goes from 0-8) and then resetting it to zero

However when it reaches 8 it just prints a "None"

And then errors

I'm not writing anything new to the array, so I'm not sure how it's managing this

The more I work on this the weirder it gets, haha

[faint badge]

You can skip all that logic and just use the modulo operator % which will do the wrap around for you. Hide the current image, then update current image to (CurrentImage + 1) % ImageArray.Num() where .Num() just means get the number of elements in your array.

[wraith stirrup]

anyone knows why my actor bp spawns at 0,0,0 but doesnt spawn at all when I add a player start

[hallow gate]

How would I go about doing this with blueprints?

(Also while you're here, any ideas on duplicating a render? This is all in aid of that and I still have yet to tackle THAT nasty bleeder*)

[hallow gate]

Is it checking for collisions? If so, I'm pretty sure it won't spawn inside you

Assuming your player start is also at 0,0,0

[faint badge]

Modulo is a node in Blueprints, I think the size of the array is Length in blueprints? it's been a while since I did BP stuff

[hallow gate]

Not finding it unfortunately

I can try some google fu, they might have changed it's name

[faint badge]

try %

[faint badge]

Yep, that's the one, you want the bottom one (integer). There's a nice video on how it works here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXCkOzkgamU

[hallow gate]

Awesome, thank you, I'll give it a look over.

The number of times I've done things only to go back and redo it because there was a more efficient way has ruined my space bar, haha

[faint badge]

It's sometimes called "Clock arithmetic" as it wraps around like a clock, i.e. when you get to your maximum value and add 1 you wrap back to your first value

[wraith stirrup]

Thanks for the suggestion but It's set to ignore collisions

[hallow gate]

Move your player start away from 0,0,0 just in case

[hallow gate]

Ahh, okay. Hopefully this functions, otherwise I'll need to find out why my array is borked

[wraith stirrup]

tried that too ;-;

[wraith stirrup]

its a big level

[faint badge]

There's a Make Array node which will save you from all those adds

[hallow gate]

SEE

Once again redoing it to be more efficient haha

I need to pick your brain about my picture taking method too I bet, because that thing is spicy

Mmm that is beautiful, thank you for the tips

[hallow gate]

One minor roadblock here, I also need it to be able to descend back down the array, and I don't think Modulo is too friendly with negatives?

Also it still breaks so at this point I think my array is somehow throwing up a random null randomly, which is never a good sign

[leaden dock]

how can i compare if a pointer array element is the same ptr as the ptr i provide in blueprint?

like int* A; int* B = A; if (A == B) return true;

[hallow gate]

I could just check if current image is 0 and set it to an arbitrary 90...

That might work

[faint badge]

I forget how negatives are handled in BP for modulo but if it's not what you want you can just add your array size first, i.e. ((CurrentImage - 1) + ArraySize) % ArraySize), assuming CurrentImage is a positive number to start then you're safe, for example if your array is size 8 and your current image is 0 then you end up with ((0 - 1) + 8) % 8 which becomes 7 % 8 which is 7, or the last index of your array like expected

[hallow gate]

That... Is a much more intelligent way of doing it

Can you tell I've not done any form of hard maths or programming for 8 years? Because I can

Thank you very much

It looks beautiful

Still throwing up errors but I must have messed up my array images somehow somewhere, I'll dig into that now

[faint badge]

No problem, rather than using 9 explicitly in there I'd use the length function on your array, it's basically free performance wise and means if you ever change how many images you have it will automatically adjust to work with the new size

[hallow gate]

Done and done, will use that for the future render

Speaking of, any ideas on that front?

Let me get more info

[faint badge]

I'm actually off for the night but still post the info here and hopefully someone can help you out

[hallow gate]

Aha, will do, I appreciate you taking time out to help me out

[faint badge]

Have a good evening!

[hallow gate]

Normally I just spend hours banging my head on the wall until it breaks and I get that rush of euphoria

You too!

[hallow gate]

Why is my array skipping over "Cam Left Low"? (Number 1), it's causing a lot of issues and it makes zero sense to me

It's almost as if it considers it not to exist and shunts all the arrays up by one

[dawn gazelle]

My guess would be because you're both setting a new value for "Current Image" and then using it again.

[hallow gate]

Hmm

I need to use it again for stuff in the later area, but possibly the first section...

One sec

[dawn gazelle]

ie. It looks like you're subtracting and adding after already subtracting or adding.

[hallow gate]

Oh no, that's just the criss crossed lines

But I think you might be right on setting it too early still for another reason, one sec

Same result

Darn

[wraith stirrup]

Okay so for some reason the actor gets automatically deleted after going a certain distance out of the atmosphere which is weird???

[hallow gate]

It only effects mid 2 for the first run which is what's really throwing me off, then is skips ONE array member per runthrough

Then for good measure throws up a "None" at 8

However if I plug directly into it and print, it runs perfectly

[dawn gazelle]

Get rid of the second adding and subtracting. You've already set the new value.

Should just need to plug in the % into the get.

[hallow gate]

Ahh I see what you mean

One sec

Such a simple error...

[hazy grail]

I want to be able to add textures into the unreal game folder, in windows, in the form of .uassets, when not running, then at runtime the game would look into that folder and add them into an array at startup. Is there a way to do that?

[hallow gate]

That's so frustrating that I couldn't figure that out haha

Thank you so much

I blame it being 03:45 in the morning

Now to try to figure out how in the blazes I'm going to store a scene capture for rendering to a permanent page after the scene capture has already left

Woot

Is there any way to copy a Render Target to a new Render Target?

Or potentially a Material to another Material?

Effectively I need to duplicate one texture onto another to save it permanently

As the first texture will be getting overwritten

However the "saved permanently" ISN'T strictly going to be permanent unless the player selects it

And I also want it to be dynamically created to avoid making too many materials

This was my original attempt but it flopped horribly, I assume because "Draw Material to Render Target" doesn't do what I thought it did

It feels like something with an easy solution haha

[unreal wing]

Hey all!
I had a question about casting vs. references.
So im trying to teleport the player if they collide with a box trigger. When I use a cast it works totally fine, however when I use a reference, it doesnt work at all. Im trying to avoid casting because I know its terrible for performance. Any suggestions?

[covert arrow]

hey guys I wanted to ask if the character class "jump" function checks is the character is moving on ground so is this code unecessary?

[hazy grail]

References have to be set directly to the specific instance of whatever thing you want to reference. Casting is saying it's a thing and let's see if it's this thing. If it's not the thing the cast fails. For your specific situation though I would use an interface instead of a reference. Interfaces are good when a lot of different object want to send a message to something else.

[hazy grail]

double click on the jump function you have and it should show its internals

[teal lagoon]

Struggling to get my engine audio crossfader working.

If I set the beginning of the crossfader to "0" - then the "engine sound" audio fires.

If I set it to "0.0001" to test having it fire when I begin moving, I get no "engine sound" - nor does it fire when I begin moving.

I followed this tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCEo6vnPhi8

FYI - Very new to this, so feel free to suggest me look into obvious things I may have screwed up 🙂

Blueprints attached:

Also, I can't get the debugging/print screen to output anywhere, to help me see what's happening with RPM. Maybe that's helpful/related.

[formal bronze]

How do I access this node?

[thorny acorn]

helloooo

[dawn gazelle]

Not sure how new, but your blueprints aren't connected to some event so that they execute, so they wouldn't be executing at all.

[thin panther]

Hello!, did you have a question

[thorny acorn]

nup

just saying hi tbh

[thin panther]

Well hello!

[thorny acorn]

:)

making a FPS dungeon crawler based on my first ever game that was 2D, still have a lot to cross off my list, so i may ask questions sometimes though

rogue like dungeon crawler to be specific

[teal lagoon]

Thanks for the reply. Very new 🙂 Any where you can direct me to understand how to attach this to an event properly?

[brazen pike]

When do you want that functionality to happen?

[teal lagoon]

I'd like an idle sound, and also for it to crossfade into other wav files as the vehicle speeds up.

[brazen pike]

Right well you're going to want that on tick. Event tick will execute every frame, so it will mean that RPM parameter will always be the right value

The white line that connects some of the nodes are showing the order in which they will execute. You need to connect them to one of the red nodes you can see in most blueprints as they will be the ones that start execution. If you have a node that isn't connected by the white lines, it will never work because you aren't telling it to execute anywhere

But remember some don't have white lines, as they are used for inputs. You connect those ones up via the coloured lines. I have no idea how new you are, but if you're just starting out hopefully this clears things up a little

[teal lagoon]

I see, I'll try to find out where to connect that. I'm very new and just starting out for game jam I'm in. Thank you for the lead 🙂

[brazen pike]

You can right click on the blueprint and type in "Event tick"