blueprint

[candid whale]

yep 😉 right now it already fails compilation when outside of my own project, but it requires me to make a new version of the plugin that I need to send to them that they then need to update (with hassle) before they can actually package

your data table is already based on a struct. If you make an array of them in the GameInstance you can save the exact same struct

[sleek kite]

okay, apologies if I misunderstood, let's try this.

What is it you are trying to do inside of of the anim BP for your weapon

[candid whale]

I'm still confused... what you're suggesting isn't even an issue with how I'm imaging it..

actor->GetAllComponentsOfClass(UActorComponent)->ForEach()->Destroy(Component)

[naive stag]

I just want the data being stored that the actor exists at that place and what type of actor it is

[keen pelican]

I'm trying to take a weapon class to get a variable from there to activate reload. Something like that

[naive stag]

I’m not deleting all components, only specific ones. I’m asking what I need to add to the actor to make it still be in the world but it has to be optimized

[raw orbit]

can i use anim montages within the machine state of an animation blueprint?

[sleek kite]

let's just say you want to set the weapon to reload in your weapon anim bp..

You do reload input event in character, you then get your weapon ref and in your weapon you switch isReload bool to true.

Now, you need a reference for the specific weapon you are using..

So.. as I said before.. in your anim bp on event begin play you cast to your character, set weapon as var and on blueprint update you get your weapon ref and drag out and set bool..

[keen pelican]

Something like this?

[candid whale]

you're asking how you can store data from an actor when it gets destroyed, but then telling me you don't destroy the actor you only destroy all the components, then you're saying you don't destroy all the components but only specific ones. you can use OnDestroyed?

[candid whale]

you can use a SaveGame file if you want the data to be saved across play runs. You can store the data in the GameInstance if you want it to persist across level loading. You can save it ANYWHERE outside of the actor (GameState for example) if you wanna save it within the same level

[hexed barn]

Hi, is there any way to respawn a lot of actor? this is my respawn for player

[sinful gust]

I've been switching the systems, and it's actually working thanks!

Just one little question, is there a way of actually creating an exact copy of a UObject?

I mean, even if it's a child of the UObject class

[naive stag]

Is there a way for me to disable an infinite loop error

[tawdry surge]

Hacky way is to add a .01 second delay to break the loop. Depends on what you're doing and why tho

[sinful gust]

Ok nvm, just found the solution

Now I need to know, is there any way of overriding a RepNotify C++ function using BP? Or directly creating it in BP?

[acoustic lava]

Hi

If I have a component attached to something in a blueprint

How do I get the actor its attached to/ apart of?

It returns null

[sinful gust]

GetOwner?

[versed sun]

Get Attach Parent for attached component

[limber parcel]

how would i add a new component to the base Actor class?

[sinful gust]

Nvm too, just found you can simply add the tag BlueprintImplementableEvent to the UFUNCTION lmao

[sinful gust]

Add > Component

[limber parcel]

where would i find the actor class to begin with?

[sinful gust]

The base actor class is a C++ class, I wouldn't want to touch that

You should create a new actor class, and if you need other BP classes to be children of it, just create them using Create Child BP

[limber parcel]

basically i want to add a health variable to all actors, how would i best go about that?

but if i make a new actor class, then the default character class wont inherit from it

[sinful gust]

You can create a new ActorBase class, and on the other actors, in Class Settings set the parent to the new ActorBase

[limber parcel]

but i need the character class to inherit from that new class too

[sinful gust]

I guess

[limber parcel]

so how to change inheritance of the character class?

[sinful gust]

It is a CharacterClass or something like that?

[limber parcel]

its the default Character class

[sinful gust]

Which base class are your actors using

[sinful gust]

All of them?

So you can create a CharacterBase class, and then what I said

[limber parcel]

i have set up a custom base actor class, and i need the default character class to inherit from it, instead of inheriting from the base actor class

[icy dragon]

Subclass the Character class, add all the attributes you want, then reparent the BPs to that subclass.

Easy peasy lemon squeezy.

[sinful gust]

Yeah, pretty much

Then you set the common variables for all characters on the BaseCharacter class

As well as the common functions

[limber parcel]

but then i need to make separate cases for damage done to actors and damage done to characters which is kinda retarded

[icy dragon]

No.

At least, not if you subclass from Character.

Inheritance

Inheritance is the key point.

[limber parcel]

yeah but i dont want every static object that can be damaged a game character

[sinful gust]

Then if actors and characters are different, set up a BaseX class, and then a BaseCharacter and BaseActor classes which inherit from it

[limber parcel]

stuff like trees should be actors

so if i want to damage them i need to add health value to actor class

[sinful gust]

So, different implementations

One are Characters and the other actors

[icy dragon]

I think you haven't understanding the concept of inheritance yet

[sinful gust]

He wants stuff to be actors (like trees), and stuff to be characters, but then they can't share the health

And other attributes afaik

Other option would be to create a HealthComponent, and attach it to both parent classes

[limber parcel]

Actor -> MyActorClass -> Character -> MyCharacter this is the inheritance i want to achieve

because a fkin tree wont inherit from character class

it makes no sense

it has to be an actor

[sinful gust]

So good luck if you want to create a Character that inherits from your actor class 🤣

[sinful gust]

Nope, and it shouldn't

[icy dragon]

Good luck modifying the engine code

[sinful gust]

Create a BaseActor class, and a BaseCharacter class

Then a HealthComponent class

[icy dragon]

Personally I just have destructible objects have their own AnyDamage events

[sinful gust]

And add it to both of the base classes

[limber parcel]

thats exactly what i did now but its still kinda retarded

[sinful gust]

The best way tbh

What you are asking to do implies modifying the engine code which is a bad idea

[limber parcel]

because then i need to make 2 branches here basically

and 2 different inputs

[sinful gust]

Or creating a Character class from the ground up, which is a waste of time

[sinful gust]

Yes, you get it

That's the way

[limber parcel]

i guess the way is to use c++

[icy dragon]

The way I went with it is just to have destructible object its own health vars, then use Event AnyDamage from the built in Damage interface to decrease the health on itself.

But I know someone will say that set up is absolutely retarded

[sinful gust]

For me it's easier to use 2 nodes to get or set info than to build a whole new Character class, but whatever you prefer

[limber parcel]

i want everything to use common functions and shit

[icy dragon]

I heard UE5 removed the damage interface, is that the case?

[sinful gust]

So set those functions in the component, and they'll be shared

[icy dragon]

It works in UE4 at least.

[limber parcel]

there is basically damage but it doesnt manage health

so now i have to add health to actors in a very stupid way if i want to avoid using c++

[sinful gust]

Nope i think

[limber parcel]

thats why i just wanted to add it to the fkin actor base class

ApplyDamage just triggers the event

[sinful gust]

And using C++ too!

[sinful gust]

put the Damage to actor on the Component class

[thorny acorn]

i have simple uestion, how could i change a meshes material in a customization level and switch to another level while keeping the new material

[sinful gust]

And then call that function from whichever actor or character you need

[thorny acorn]

trying to make a color swapping system for my game

[sinful gust]

That's the purpose of Components, to share functionality between different objects

[sinful gust]

That exact same code on the component, except the destroy actor part

You can create an interface (or custom event), and call it from the Component to its parent

[thorny acorn]

oh yes, i seem to have a case of dimness

[tight pollen]

I do not know why, but Press Pointer Key does not work for me, when I add a widget on the map, it shows that it is hover and unhover, but cannot click this button

Someone can help

[thorny acorn]

be a little more specific?

[sinful gust]

I was referring to other message sorry XD

[thorny acorn]

ah hmmmmm i think an actor component might work, not sure though

[sinful gust]

I haven't entered yet on that topic srry

The color changing stuff, but components are pretty useful tho

[limber parcel]

yeah i figured so too

[sinful gust]

I'm using them for inventories for now

[thorny acorn]

i haven't ever made a skin changing system, it is going great just can't figure this out, i wish there was global variables

[limber parcel]

so basically i just create an event inside the component that outputs the health?

[thorny acorn]

i feel like you are over complicating things sir

but i don't know what you are trying to achieve

[sinful gust]

Create all the health related stuff inside the component

[tight pollen]

Someone?

[limber parcel]

umm basically i want to make an easy to access health component that can be accessed in the same way by different blueprints

[sinful gust]

Then, on damage, call the corresponding function (or event) inside the Component

And if dead, call the Destroy function from the parent of the Component

[sinful gust]

no idea sorry :/

[sinful gust]

For this, I recommend ✨interfaces✨

[icy dragon]

Then I'm not sure where does he going with this.
I had my setup with the damage interface and it works fine.

I mean, it's (somewhat) understandable if Epic get rid of it in UE5

[icy dragon]

Interfaces could be what you need here. Hard inheritace can backfire very quickly.

[limber parcel]

guess ill have to check out this interface stuff then

[candid whale]

"global variables" can be saved in a save file, or in the GameInstance, or in a GameInstanceSubsystem which can be created really easily with C++

[candid whale]

Event Delegates for C++ and Event Dispatchers for Blueprints will allow you to link component functions both ways around. It'll likely provide you with additional options for designing your component that no other option can

[thorny acorn]

ah, well i have no idea how to do anything with c++ i could probably look up a tutorial though

[candid whale]

It really is a matter of following a tutorial and done. But as for blueprints, you can also use your version of the GameInstance. I'm assuming you've got a child class like MyGameGameInstance?

[tight pollen]

Ok, so when i use Left Mouse button to Press Pointer Key then work but when i use button "E" or something from keyboard then doesn't work

[candid whale]

https://couchlearn.com/how-to-use-the-game-instance-in-unreal-engine-4/#:~:text=The game instance is a,game the data is lost!

[tight pollen]

Why

[candid whale]

any key you want to use in your game will likely need to be set up in the project settings before it does anything. Other than that, no clue. Not quite sure what you're trying to do either

[tight pollen]

I am trying to press a button on the map which is a widget

Left Mouse Button works perfectly but E not :/

I don't know why

[candid whale]

try SetInputModeGameAndUI? (in GameState BeginPlay for example, or Controller BeginPlay)

[tight pollen]

I don't have internet on computer :)

[candid whale]

@toxic jay you know of any method to have a #define in Blueprints? Wanna exclude a node from cooking based on config

[tight pollen]

Doesn't work

[candid whale]

then I'm a bit confused. Your issue is NOT with the Press Pointer Key. It's with the E key not triggering your event. Might help you trying to find the answer

neither of those would work for this particular case unfortunately. It's a "bad cast node" which is there on purpose and is valid in my own project, and supposed to be invalid to prevent cooking in other projects. Plugin I'm making where I want people to validate with me before packaging their project

[tight pollen]

But when i press E and call to Print string then i see "Hello"

[candid whale]

so then why do you know the Press Pointer Key function doesn't work? Can you put a Print String inside that function and check if it gets called?

[tight pollen]

I can't because this function is by default in the engine

I don't understand C++

[candid whale]

and you're wondering why your mouse can't use the E button??????

[icy dragon]

Hotspot/tethering exists on pretty much all Android phones these days.

[candid whale]

and so do phone bills

[tight pollen]

No

[raw orbit]

is there a node for checking what animation is currently playing and getting is full length

[tight pollen]

I want to interact with the widget using the "E" button

[raw orbit]

i know theres one for a montage

[tight pollen]

Mouse works, but buttons not

[candid whale]

it seems like that function calls the Key as if the mouse did it. So say you wanna left click through the mouse by using code, you'd use this function. You're trying to have the E button be sent through the mouse

[icy dragon]

I don't know anything about it in other countries, but I have a constant monthly bill for the internet. I do it more often than not

[candid whale]

I live in my van. My entire life is based on my phone's hotspot and a laptop. Still, I pay a higher monthly bill than other options available in order to have that possibility at a fixed rate

[tight pollen]

Ok, fixed

Thanks

[candid whale]

yay 🙂
What did the trick??

[tight pollen]

They did it weird

Use E and in this function i set mouse button

[trim matrix]

hey there
wasn't there a wildcard input option somewhere?

[candid whale]

you mean Object?

[icy dragon]

Only in macros.

[candid whale]

it's always your own fault when something goes wrong 😉

[trim matrix]

oh

[icy dragon]

Functions can't have auto Wildcard input/output

[glass stump]

I've split up a robot character of mine into multiple meshes in order to do an effect whereby it explodes. What would be the best way to accomplish the effect of each piece flying in a different direction?

[steady harbor]

❓

[candid whale]

MEDABOOOOOOTSSSS!!!
Outside of UE, I'd say get the center position of the actor, center position of each piece, apply a force from the center pos to the piece pos, and let the magic happen

[icy dragon]

Guess they allow it in UE5

I'm a boomer :(

[steady harbor]

we're all gon make it

and naw it's form like '15 i think

ole reliable UStruct*

[naive stag]

The problem is that this infinite loop error comes from me trying to generate lots of new actos. If I generate only 1000, there’s no error. But once it is above that there is

[tawdry surge]

Do it in batches of 1000 or less
Single frame delay between batches will short circuit the infinite loop error

[lyric glade]

is theres any way to scale the timeline node? like im trying to make a procedural object moves along curve, but i dont wanna modify the curve time all the time, 0-1 is too fast but for other tings 0-5 might be too long

is theres a way i can modify it without modifying the timeline everytime'?

[glass stump]

Ah, thanks I'll try it out! :)

[brazen pike]

0-1 with a lerp node?

[tawdry surge]

You can grab a reference to your timeline in the variables section and set play rate

Works like a multiplier
.5 is half speed, 2 is double speed

[ember berry]

Hey guys, so i learnt to tweak ALS, but i wanna learn how to create a custom system like it from the start. Does anyone know any courses that can teach that? It's hard to find some connected information

[icy dragon]

Good luck learning it yourself. This isn't something easily teachable with a course.

However, if you're in 4.26 or newer, you could take advantage of Control Rig and make technical animation life a bit easier.

[ember berry]

i know. i can do animations and things like that, but additive animations etc are just killing…

[elfin wolf]

als is only good to look at and go "oh so thats a pretty good way to do that", and then go do it yourself

[ember berry]

yeah, that’s what i’m saying. and it has so many bugs tho, that’s why i want that kinda system made by me

[ember berry]

is it possible to make it look as “realistic” as ALS with Control Rig?

[icy dragon]

A while ago I posted few links related to anim BP stuff in #animation
#animation message

[icy dragon]

Not necessarily with just Control Rig, but you can use it in conjunction with animBP.

[ember berry]

thanks

[ember berry]

omg thank you

[tiny meteor]

hi, I have a float going from 0-1 over 1 seconds, how can I add the correct rotation value each frame so that it rotates 90 degrees in 1 second?

tried something like this but even using delta time the rotation values each loop are different

[neat stream]

hoy guys Can we make macros with callback/delegate function ?

I might have miss something I might do it in C++

[trim matrix]

Hello, I spawn actors in random locations and I try to check if I spawn them into environment meshes by Collision Handling setting to "Do not Spawn". It sometimes works, sometimes not. The Actor has a Collision Sphere with Block All collision set. In the wireframe picture you can see the actor has been spawned inside the Static mesh. Can I prevent this somehow?

Or is there a better way to check if a spawn location is inside a static mesh? (without making all the static meshes generating overlap events)

[maiden wadi]

Not sure on this. I would guess no. I have never personally tried. My first thought would have just been to make a BIE event anyhow. I wouldn't want a blueprint overriding native logic.

[sinful gust]

It was to be able to handle onRepNotify logic in BP, but I guessed how

[white elbow]

anybody knows which function sets the timeline speed? I forgot how it's called

[sinful gust]

Here

[tight schooner]

Set rate, iirc

[white elbow]

found it, thanks!

[cobalt rose]

I am trying to create a macro where I can directly enter my input string/name in the node. I believe I need to set the pni to "by value" for that, but that option doesn't seem available

Like, the docs show this:

But I don't have that "pass-by-reference" option

well, I also don't have the default value

[glass stump]

I have a 'Add Force at Location' and I'm using a sphere collision as the Target. It works fine, but I get a 'has to have 'simulate physics' enabled if you'd like to add force at location' error message. Is there a way to get rid of this, as it doesn't matter? I've tried turning 'simulating physics' on but then other error messages come up and ultimately it doesn't matter so I don't see why I should have it on.

[pearl moth]

How do I print a string if player is next to an object (In this case a wall);
I would also detect the player's input (If is on ps4 controller or keyboard)

Here's a preview of what i'm looking for (Timestamp: 00:07)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMRnns1Qzjs

[foggy escarp]

This stuff has been eternalized all over Google. You would very likely find answers like this much faster there anyway.

[pearl moth]

i would prefer asking here instead of googling it. No clue on how to summarize it

[foggy escarp]

When it comes to the general use of blueprints, experimentation is the purist and fastest way to learn.

That exact question on Google would do the trick.

[foggy escarp]

https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/how-to-check-if-player-is-nearby/389574

[pearl moth]

Same as checking for the input?

[foggy escarp]

Not really.
Like the post said, there are more than a couple ways to do this. You can just pick the way you prefer.
If this is for debugging purposes, you could just do it on tick. Get the distances between actors, if it's greater than a specific amount bool is true.
In a more established state we usually prefer overlapping collision boundaries to do this because it's more manageable.

[tight schooner]

No idea why you can't do that with a macro, but try making a function instead. Pass-by-ref for name/string inputs is available there

[cursive wigeon]

Hello! Any idea how I can make a handheld looping animation on my camera in game? I currently have a vector x timeline ping ponging between 1 and -1. Doesn;t want to work. any ideas?

[dawn gazelle]

You want the add world transform on the update of the timeline.

[cursive wigeon]

ok but now it only goes up in X. it doesnt come back down

[elfin wolf]

because youre adding more to x then you are subtracting

tweak your timeline

[fickle nebula]

Added a new gamemode,controller and character to a new level, and my character isnt receiving inputs. what could it be?

[elfin wolf]

top has 2 peaks and bottom has 1

[cursive wigeon]

so when I tweak the timeline it still travels upwards

[cursive wigeon]

send a snap of your gamemode

[tight pollen]

Hi, how can i check overlapping self components?

[tight pollen]

Example: i have one actor witch has 3 components and i want check witch component overlap witch others in this actor ::)

Sry for English

[gilded pebble]

event on overlap with all 3 components

it gives out the overlapping component as well

How would you create a dropdown list of names like an enum but without the 255 entry limit that are usable as a variable in BP?

[fickle nebula]

I would use a data table with the info

[cursive wigeon]

anyone tried this method for a handheld camera feel in game before?

even with new graph my camera only goes in the 1 direction

atm it only goes up in x

[gilded pebble]

problem is I need to use it for a map where the index is the enum so I don't have to keep in mind 300+ numbers corresponding to entries

because I need to be able to edit values runtime

[dawn gazelle]

Gameplay tags.

[cursive wigeon]

is your project settings using that game mode?

[fickle nebula]

is it possible that you're editing just the red line? try toggle the visibility in this eye buttons

[cursive wigeon]

yeah I only wanted to add data to the red line (X), shoudl I not do that?

[sacred canyon]

weird timing since Ive just been noticing this a lot recently, but dont trust those meshes in thirdpersontemplate map, their collision is weird, if my player ends up inside of them somehow he doesnt get stuck and can freely run around inside them, Id stick to testing on placed cube objects

[fickle nebula]

ah it's intended, so what are you tring to do is the movement with the camera in 2 axis right?

[cursive wigeon]

Atm I just want to get the camera going up and down in X. my game is top down. but eventually I will want it to sway in 2 axis

[fickle nebula]

ok, so you are using the X value in the timeline to set camera position in real world, right?

[cursive wigeon]

yep

[fickle nebula]

are you not messing up with the axis?

[cursive wigeon]

no if I just add a number in teh x field in my world transform node it acts as intended

[fickle nebula]

ok

[cursive wigeon]

but for some reason it won;t take the animation in the timeline

also I have this working off event tick

[fickle nebula]

try print values and se if it's at least being executed

[dawn gazelle]

Dont run a timeline off of tick.

[fickle nebula]

and also, you're moving 1 unity up/down it's hard to see it, trye bigger numbers

[dawn gazelle]

Here's something I made really quickly, it bobs the static mesh up and down.

[fickle nebula]

change those to bigger numbers like 10+

[cursive wigeon]

can;t I multiply them after?>

[fickle nebula]

yes, multiply is way

you can do it

the way I approach to solve thing is first make them work, later I think of how can I do it in a better way

[cursive wigeon]

If I do this again it only moves in 1 direction

OK, so it works now splitting the pins going from x to delta x

Woot! Merci!

[fickle nebula]

nice

[cursive wigeon]

I noticed children of morta have a similiar thing to this in their camera

anyone know how to randomly slow and speed up the timeline now?

[fickle nebula]

fire rate is the timeline duration

[cursive wigeon]

ok nice

and I can add a rand into the fire rate?

[fickle nebula]

well it depends on how you want it to work when this 'randomness' is going to change

[cursive wigeon]

essentially I was thinking randomness in timeline so teh bob becomes more organic

in terms of time length

[fickle nebula]

what you want is to randomize the timeline duration or the wave effect the camera will do?

[cursive wigeon]

the timeline duration

[fickle nebula]

so you have to do a event to do it

[cursive wigeon]

ok I'm not sure how the logic works. event triggers when?

I was thinking of making teh timeline run and then looping into "setnew time" and somehow randomizing the number of "new time"

ok that seems to work. thank you!

[fickle nebula]

thats how I would do it

[cursive wigeon]

ok awesome!

how did you get the reference to the timeline?

[cursive wigeon]

Oh awesome!

atm teh camera kinda eventually moves away from my character

[fickle nebula]

decrease range

[cursive wigeon]

need to figure out a way to get it back to the 1st location

I was thinking move to location and making a reference of teh original position

[fickle nebula]

yeah, you can save that in the begin play

[cursive wigeon]

ok cheers!

[wary oak]

Hey yall: trying to integer - integer but not working out for me when i try to find it in my actions after dragging off an integer

https://docs.unrealengine.com/4.27/en-US/BlueprintAPI/Math/Integer/int_int_2/

This is the one I am wanting

[worthy tendon]

Are you on ue5?

[wary oak]

Yes

[worthy tendon]

Just right click on second pin and change its type to int

[worthy tendon]

Or basically connect another integer to that pin and it automatically turns into correct type

[wary oak]

Its an int currently just trying to int-int

Trying to control the value I decrease my stamina int by

using int-int

[worthy tendon]

Right click and type subtract

Or drag from int and type subtract

[wary oak]

thank god

bless you

I should have found that - derp LOL

[worthy tendon]

Math nodes are now like wildcards

[wary oak]

Was that a unreal engine 5 change?

[worthy tendon]

Yeah

[wary oak]

Cause I did notice i was on wrong documentation

Gotcha

Thank you kindly

[worthy tendon]

np, if you want it like ue4 go to editor preferences, General/Blueprint editor settings/ then uncheck "Type Promotion" @Tye

[wary oak]

Gotcha - I mean I would probably leave it default now that I know how to search for it 🙂

but good to know the option! @worthy tendon appreciate that!

[trim matrix]

thanks for that input!

[nimble bloom]

Question- I have a project where I'm doing a hotkey setup and it works in editor, local builds, and on develop in Steam hotkeys reset on a reload:

It's acting like the config .ini resets on a new load.

Is there a way other than saving everything to a persistent settings or control config save slot to make this work? Or an easy way to grab the input array and dump it into a save slot if that's the only way?

[cyan bone]

I imported a lot of textures from the desktop. When i check the texture it says desktop. Will this cause any issue down the road? Should the textures be in my project folder?

[gaunt ferry]

am i doing this wrong

[spark steppe]

that's wild

why do you query the asset registry instead of just specifying the class?

[maiden wadi]

Using the asset registry in most gameplay programming is incredibly pointless.

[maiden wadi]

There really isn't much that you can't do correctly using SoftObjectPointers, SoftClassPointers and HardPointers and ClassPointers. In this case, you can pretty much delete everything before CreateWidget and just specify the class directly in CreateWidget

[gaunt ferry]

im making this for a game that im modding and i need it to by dynamic

so if someone puts a widget in that folder it would auto just add that to viewport

[fleet cedar]

Can anyone recommend a simple inventory system tutorial that they've followed?

[pale blade]

Hm, I see.
So let me tell you the issue I had and the solution I used.
So I had two instances of these Actors that played the same AnimMontage at the same time.
The AnimMontage as you can see used AN_Deal_Damage.
AN_Deal_Damage has:

• Variable arrays of Actors, ActorsAlreadyHit
• NotifyBegin: Clears ActorsAlreadyHit
• NotifyEnd: Clears ActorsAlreadyHit
• NotifyTick: Multisphere trace (ignore ActorsAlreadyHit) to get the list of hits from the weapon every tick, and add the hits to ActorsAlreadyHit after

Worked fine if it's just one instance of the Actor hitting. But if two instances of the actors attacked at the same time then there was only one damage on the player character.

Solution: Make Dictionary of Actor (Key) and Struct (with list of Actors) (Value)
Basically, same as before but now the Dictionary has GetOwner as the Key, and the List of Actors as ActorsAlreadyHit.
It seems like... when two instances of an actor play the same animation montage, then it references the same AN_Deal_Damage instance. Meaning the ActorsAlreadyHit was conflicting.

It's super confusing but it works..

[cyan bone]

I need to change the color of the green banner without changing the color of the yellow borders and the spears. How do i change the color of the green part only?

[maiden wadi]

Usually easiest to make a mask out of the area, white it out and then multiply it.

[cyan bone]

thank you. so something like this? But now i noticed the green banner use to have this darkened shadows to give it a certain texture and they are gone. Is there a way to keep them? it became a solid color now.

[odd kiln]

Hi all

Does anyone has some links for making UI Navigation in UE5 (or UE4) please ? Like World Map, Mini map with arrow (player) etc.. ?

[maiden wadi]

Basically, yes. And for the shadows, not directly. You're turning every pixel in the material to red with that, which removes the darkening. So you would either need a different method that gets any pixel with green and alters the color after a whitening it(while leaving the dark colors slightly darker. Or you have to have a separate shadow mask that can be reapplied after the coloring.

[cyan bone]

i see. thank you.

i used a multiply and it actually fixed it a bit. it shows a little the shadows

[tight schooner]

Make the base color of the flag white (with the cloth-like detail you want in it), and use the mask to multiply a solid color into the texture

#graphics btw

Material graph ain't BP

[cyan bone]

thank you. sorry. i tried asking there but it took so long. and here in #blueprint i always get the answer 🙂

[tight schooner]

Yeah that's the problem with #blueprint isn't it... It's too active 😅

[icy dragon]

#blueprint is poor man's #cpp

[tight schooner]

The last time I went there to ask something it was like #lounge 2

[maiden wadi]

It's always Lounge2. That happens when the answer to every question is "Go learn C++ then come ask questions. Anyhow, about Rider vs VS"

[tight schooner]

Idk the industry practice, but I found it helpful to have a folder that isn't the UE project folder for external assets. When you import an asset into UE, it'll make a UE version of that asset and place it in your UE project folder. But let's say you want to iterate on a texture/sound/model/whatever with external software. It helps to have a dedicated place for that asset on your computer so you can hit the "reimport" button on the UE side whenever the source asset changes.

[odd kiln]

Can someone help me for math problem pls ?

[tight schooner]

Just ask and if anyone knows, you'll get an answer

[odd kiln]

Ok thanks

So I'm trying to make minimap but when I "play" in my editor, the map is not centered with my player

Here is the Material

I'm taking a "screenshot" of the map with a "SceneCapture2D"

and set the "Ortho width"

[rough warren]

Hey guys I'm just a bit confused how to attach an object to a socket

I have a socket in my player's bone structure thats name is "grip_socket"

[maiden wadi]

Looks correct. Is Item valid?

[rough warren]

yeah

so it attaches to the center of my character

but it just doesnt attach to my skeleton

[maiden wadi]

Hmm. I'm not sure how Actor handles bones. May only actually check on the root component. Which is rarely actually the skeletal mesh. You might want to use AttachToComponent and specify the skeletal mesh instead. Rest should be the same.

[fair magnet]

General question... I need to lerp a vector2d
Would it be cheaper to use a Vinterp or 2 finterp ?

[rough warren]

that worked, thank you

[fair magnet]

uhhh not lerp interp

[icy dragon]

VInterp To would be lot cleaner.

[rough warren]

that moment when u forget to change the scale rule 🤦‍♂️

also, does anyone know how to unattach a component?

[fair magnet]

components can't live without a parent

[rough warren]

so how might i do something like I want to do?

[fair magnet]

Well... I don't know what you'd like to do :o

[rough warren]

crap

basically i've got a way to pickup an item, but i'd like to drop it and i'm just not sure how to drop it

[fair magnet]

but if it's an item that you pickup it is an actor isn't it?

I mean it gotta be there in order to be picked up

and if it's an actor you can just use "detach"

[cyan bone]

thank you.

[rough warren]

thank you

i forgot detach was a word and couldnt find it 🤦‍♂️

[fair magnet]

Sometimes it's something very obvious

We all have these moments

[rough warren]

yup

I don't really understand how this causes an infinite loop

[tight schooner]

Maybe when you drop the item, it spawns the item and tries to pick it up again; idk

It's impossible to say from your screenshot alone

Could be anything

[rough warren]

for some reason dropitem is constantly getting called

[tight schooner]

Try disconnecting things methodically to narrow down how the loop is made

[rough warren]

it only started after i made that branch

Right so I'm doing a check is the object actually has a value and if it does, then I drop the item and if it doesnt then I don't need to

[golden frigate]

does wildcard here mean random?

[forest timber]

Pretty much, you have to link up whatever you want to be the selector

[forest timber]

Kinda weird, but try doing snap to target for all, and turn off weld bodies. Sometimes that works for me:)

[crystal stone]

anyone know how o can get my char to jump to mouse hit instead of jumping in place then running to mouse hit?

[odd kiln]

Ok I solved it now it's working, thanks!

Does anyone know how to add Viewport to existing Viewport ? (Widget)

When I add a second 2 viewport in my Character BP (when I press button for example), it replaces the old Viewport

it's ok I solved it sorry it was my fault

[odd kiln]

I have a little problem

I don't know how to place my player icon (arrow) in the correct emplacement on the World Map (UI)

For the Minimap I move the UV of the Map and keep my placer icon (arrow) at center, so it's easy to do with some maths, but for the World Map I don't want to keep my player icon at the center, I want to make the opposite, I want to move my player icon

[warm summit]

I have a BP, that Spawns a BP, that Spawns additional BPs. I calculate some data in those 3rd level BPs using Timelines. I can easily keep track of what I have spawned from the Spawning BPs because I store refs to the things I have spawned in Arrays.

The lowest of these spawned BPs have Timelines in them that get started playing due to logic in the Spawning BPS.

Now I am wondering about how to report those values back up to my Spawning Parents. Without having those parents doing some "on tick" query of the values being turned out by the running time lines.

I am learning code, so I wonder if there is already a well established method to do this. My running timelines are generating events... if they just had a ref to their Spawners, I could send the data up that way.

Is there a way to keep a ref to the Spawner that Spawned you? I imagine Casting, but that sounds like it could get messy and I wanted to see if this issue is perhaps already dealt with? Could I write the value out somewhere and just the change of the number will cuase an event to drive the data consumption?

[golden frigate]

obvisouly this is auto fire, whats a good way to do burst auto fire?

u need like a timer that runs X times or something ig i could loop with delay?

and is there a better way to implement firerate cooldown (left click limited firerate) other than just making some kind of timer where it wont allow imputs until its 0?

[rough warren]

wym

[tawdry surge]

@warm summit make a variable for the owning spawner, mark it instance editable, and expose on spawn.
You can then pass a reference of self to the spawned actor

[forest timber]

Looking at it now as well, I think this might help you better, it's what I use most of the time

@rough warren

Instead of attach to actor I use attach to component. Parent being the actor mesh, target being the thing you'd like to attach

[crystal stone]

i need help with a blueprint (jump to location) LMB click is location

[rough warren]

i know, but i'm getting a random loop

[rough warren]

my attaching system works, but it stopped when I added the branch and (isvalid()) check

[warm summit]

@tawdry surgethank you that sounds sensible, but I am still a beginner so I need to ask a bit more.

My timelines in the Spawned actors generate Float values.

So your saying make Float Var in the Spawning BP, make it Instance Editable & Expose on Spawn.

Then pass a Reference to Self to the spawned actor. like a breadcrumb back to the spawner?|
How do I literally pass a "Reference to Self" to the Spawned actor? I have seen Nodes that have the target of Self, but thats within the BP where the node is usually....

[forest timber]

I'd have to all of it tbh, or even create a new custom event and hook up the same code. This will say if calling it creates the loop, or the function itself creats the loop

[rough warren]

ah wait, I figured out what i did wrong

[forest timber]

Awesome awesome, glad to hear!

[warm summit]

@tawdry surge Oh you mean just pass it as an input?!? 🙂

@tawdry surge Thanks I got the ref!

[steel shadow]

I'm having some issues with camera collision. I'm making a game with controllable insects, I want to have no collision test through most of the game, however there are hives players can enter and I have the camera change to do collision testing once inside. The problem is the walls of the hive seem to thin to trigger the collision properly, or it could be the collision of the hive interior is not convex, so the camera goes through the walls anyway, can anyone suggest ways round this? Here's a clip

The camera collisions works great when it comes to the layers of comb but not the actual hive walls

[sudden nimbus]

@flint mulch post your screenshots here

[flint mulch]

ok

[sudden nimbus]

@pallid owl courtesy ping

[flint mulch]

ummmm someone help me :((

[flint mulch]

umm so how can i fix it

[crystal stone]

how can i make this jump to click instead of move to click?

very new to unreal

[flint mulch]

thanks u very much i test it now

OMG thanks u

its work

I LOVE U

[sudden nimbus]

it works because "Get Owning Player Pawn" gets Player1

because this is running in Player1's code

[flint mulch]

oh i see it

[sudden nimbus]

but "Get Actor of Class" finds the actor of that type

since you have one made in the editor, it will find it

probably will need Player2 to look for Player1 too

¯_(ツ)_/¯

[flint mulch]

damnn

thanks u so so much

i stuck it in 1 month ;-;

[sudden nimbus]

also you should use "Begin Play" instead of "Event Construct"

generally speaking

[flint mulch]

umm ok

[sudden nimbus]

but it works fine

[flint mulch]

thanks u so much

[sudden nimbus]

np, best of luck :-)

[flint mulch]

can u add me

because

i need someone can help me if i have a bug

://

[sudden nimbus]

I'm sure other people in here can help!

[flint mulch]

please

ummm ok

[sudden nimbus]

just post here in #blueprint if your stuck

[flint mulch]

thanks u :333

[sudden nimbus]

can you rephrase that a bit?

[crystal stone]

so when i want to move i have the point to click and it moves to where i click

but when i try doing the jump to location it jumps in place then walks to location

[sudden nimbus]

ohhh

I think you just need to remove the exec lines out of jump start and jump end

assuming Input Action Jump is left click

[crystal stone]

yea

i have jump as ctrl and left click and move as left click

[sudden nimbus]

ok I see

[crystal stone]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aOHDRB6IQkc&t=7s

idea of how the movement i want the game to have

[sudden nimbus]

assuming Move to Click Point uses Move To, then try configuring Character Movement to allow movement in the air

by default it doesn't let you

[crystal stone]

the airflow

air control?

[sudden nimbus]

I think that's what it's called

[crystal stone]

omg set it to on and boom

[sudden nimbus]

yeah

the character movement component does a lot for you, there's a lot of control available in there

[crystal stone]

thx you

[sleek kite]

Hey, I'm importing my data on runtime from sheets to generate my data from a struct. Part of my struct is an enum and I've recently noticed that it doesn't seem to get the enum correctly and defaults to the first option. This is odd because my other enums from the same struct are working just fine. Wondering if a space in the enum entries can be causing the issues with csv import.

Any ideas? 👀

[sudden nimbus]

maybe, try without the space then

[brave robin]

Hello!
I have a boss in the game that is supposed to throw items at the player
But I can't do it
I tried to use both the MoveTo node and move the object using the momentum node
But in any case, the object flies just in a random direction, and not towards the player
Plus, I have a problem in a very easy part of this idea - the object spawns around the boss, as if receiving world coordinates near the boss, and not him personally
Because of this, objects can spawn at all inside it.
In general, the questions are:
How to make an object fly towards the player from any point? (at the same time, not always getting into it, so that it takes the position of the player only during spawn and would fly there)
And also, how to make the object always spawn behind the boss? (possible even at a common single point)

[sudden nimbus]

ok you shouldn't use moveto on the projectile

there's a dedicated projectile system that is perfect instead

projectile movement component, and don't forget to consider instigators

if your projectile is really fast, Continuous collision detection (CCD) can help

your projectile does not need to use navigation

it doesnt need to pathfind its way to the target

(well unless it does, im not your PM)

[sleek kite]

don't have much experience with this, bit of a stretch but maybe you could use Niagara?

[brave robin]

Isn't Niagara a particle system?

I have a separate blueprint that the boss will spawn, this blueprint consists of objects with a collision
(in fact, these are pieces of cars that fly at the player)

[brave robin]

I tried using a projectile movement, but I haven't quite figured out how to work with it yet
Your idea seemed to me quite convenient, I will try to make it 🤔

[sudden nimbus]

in a lot of cases: you want to set that thing to use physics and then launch it

and have it use a collision detection event like Hit

and have it tell the actor it hits that its been hit

that actor can then look at the projectile and grab the Instigator to know what actor launched it

well depending on your game design it might not matter which actor threw the fireball

[trim matrix]

I have found out what is with the mesh. After creating custom Mesh over the "Mesh Tool" in UE4 they have exact the same issue, so this must be Meshes generated over the Mesh Tool. I have tried to trace the collision from the inside into every direction it didnt worked, the collision only applies from one side - the outside

[tight schooner]

JFYI a more general approach for it is you can set one actor as the "owner" of another; there should be a pin on the spawn node for owner. Anything owned can then 'get owner". The downside is it doesn't store the class so you have to interface (or cast to) the owner in some fashion.

[tight schooner]

Niagara is good for visual effects, but projectiles that can damage the player have gameplay relevance, and it's hard to make Niagara talk back to BP (for colliding with player and causing damage)

[sudden nimbus]

sounds like the collision generated is including the inner surface on it's complex collision

modelling tools are experimental, but I'm sure there's something in there to control that

if the generated complex collision includes inner surfaces that should readily show in the collision view mode

erm, show flag

or just generate simple collision

[open wren]

hey guys im trying to cast to my game mode from a widget blueprint to change a bool in the game mode bug for some reason idk why it’s not changing that variable. Any help?

[sudden nimbus]

oh wait if collision traces from within to outside didn't work, it can't be an inner collision surface. But if there isn't an inner collision surface then the default spawn behavior should push it out of the colliding actor. I wonder if the colliding actor is too large... honestly the "don't spawn inside something" built-in logic is pretty basic

[sleek kite]

you could use a work around and create an event dispatcher in you game instance unless you are already using an interface.

Create Event Dispatcher, add bool var to it, create an event that calls it and in your widget you can bind the event

[sudden nimbus]

if I understand your meaning, shouldn't be any problem, so maybe post some bp

[open wren]

alright, i tried to use an event dispatcher but i’m too familiar with it and idk what to put in object when i cast to a blueprint. here is the code i’m using now for casting from a widget to a game mode. I set up a system so when the book changes to enable it’ll print something out so i know it works but it doesn’t print anything out meaning that the cast didn’t work?

[brave robin]

Thank you so much
Thanks to you, I was able to set everything up more or less normally)

[sudden nimbus]

that will do what you intend: set "New Game?" to true on the game mode when its an instance of "Third Person Game Mode". But is Cast Failed the path its going down?

[sudden nimbus]

perfecto!

[undone surge]

is there a built in function that automatically puts an object into the next empty element of an array? or i would manually have to look for the next empty index and put obj there?

[sudden nimbus]

thats just "Add"

[undone surge]

ok thank u

[sudden nimbus]

no problem

[undone surge]

there is an add unique too

what does that do

[sudden nimbus]

yes there is-- that one will only add the value if its not already there

which, for a reference to an actor/ubject will add it if that exact reference is not there

for other types like float/String/Name/etc will add it if something thats not equivalent is already in there

ok thats overcomplicating it. Add Unique only adds if its not already there

if you use Add on the same value 4 times, there'll be 4 copies in there

if you use Add Unique on the same value 4 times, there'll only be 1 in there

[undone surge]

i seee

[tight schooner]

Your screenshot should just work. Check if the cast is failing

[undone surge]

so i only use unique if i only want all different elements

[open wren]

how should i check if the cast fails? i would assume that it is failing if it’s not setting the bool to true

[tight schooner]

Print String / Print Text is a quick and dirty way

[trim matrix]

at least I know that I have to avoid this meshes now 😉

[tight schooner]

Complex collision meshes have no concept of interior AFAIK

It's just a shell of loose triangles that face one direction

Idk if that's the issue

Never used procedural meshes before

[undone surge]

is there a command to check if an array is full

[tight schooner]

Get length

Is length greater than 0

[open wren]

i tried using print to check if it failed and it didn’t print out so it seems like the cast isn’t failing

[undone surge]

but wat if its half full

[tight schooner]

Idk if arrays have a concept of fullness...

Is there an absolute maximum number of elements?

If there is, check if array length is equal or greater than that

[undone surge]

like in the drop down menu i added 2 boxes

or it doesnt work that way xD

i had an idea that ill go through array and if all elements are valid then its empty otherwise break

[lime fulcrum]

Hi!
How do I find an actor from a level I've just loaded as streaming level?

I do assign the event On Level Loaded so I do checks after I'm sure the level is loaded

[sudden nimbus]

waiting until the level is loaded before trying to find an actor in that level is wise yeah

after the level is loaded, the actors of that level will be available via all the normal actor lookups

[lime fulcrum]

Oh, is the Player start removed on load for some reason? I'm trying to use that one

[sudden nimbus]

player starts are not removed when a level is loaded via streaming, nor are they removed on a root level

they stick around forever

[lime fulcrum]

I'm trying to move my player to such position but it's not working for some reason

[sudden nimbus]

moneys on: its not loaded yet

[lime fulcrum]

oh

gonna put a delay and see 😄

[sudden nimbus]

sure, just dont ship that 😛

[lime fulcrum]

yah xD

[open wren]

what do i put in object when i create a cast to a widget? i know i have to get a reference but how do i get that

[lime fulcrum]

get user widget

then you cast it to your widget class 🙂

[grizzled cloak]

Hi All,
Does anyone have experience with RTS games? trying to get simple move to, harvest, attack etc working
I followed a tutorial but my set value as vector doesn't seem to pass the value to Blackboard
Any help would be apricated
Thanks

[lime fulcrum]

@sudden nimbus This feels wrong. The event LevelLoaded does not trigger when all objects have been loaded but when the level start loading...WTF?

[sudden nimbus]

uhhh I dunno

closely inspect the docs I guess

[open wren]

ohhh that makes sense, but i when i make a cast to my main menu widget i can’t find “get user widget” when i try to add something to object

[sudden nimbus]

shoulda called it LevelLoadDidStart probably

[lime fulcrum]

@sudden nimbus If I check IsLevelLoaded on tick I get when it's loaded and I can see my actors... well I guess I'll stick with that one

Thank you for helping 🙂

@open wren did you cast before or after Get User Widget?

[open wren]

oh turns out i had context sensitive on which is prob why it didn’t come out… does this look right?

[tawdry surge]

It didn't show up with context sensitive on because you were not pulling off a widget component reference at the time. Which you need as the target for the "get user widget object" function.
In general you want to leave context sensitive on, and if you can't find something then it's a hint you are missing something

[icy dragon]

Or 🪟 + Shift + S

[sleek kite]

Would love to say I knew about that. You are my hero

[gentle urchin]

Best shortcut I've ever been told about

Pre that i was print screening and paint editing 😂

You can also alt+printscreen to just do the active window iirc

[timid thunder]

would anyone know how to show the force and trajectory of an actor like twini golf?

[blazing kite]

There is a node called "predict projectile path" i don't know if it might help

[timid thunder]

Would it be possible if you could pull back the mouse and show the force of your attack?

[blazing kite]

I think so, you would have to tweak the launch velocity : https://docs.unrealengine.com/5.0/en-US/BlueprintAPI/Game/PredictProjectilePathByObjectTyp-/

then you grab out path positions and you build a spline or something else

i don't know if it take in account bounces

[timid thunder]

Would it be possible if I could make something like this in bp or would I have to make it in c++: https://youtu.be/jj5zpkAlPkE

[blazing kite]

If you just want an arrow you can create a world widget and tweak its size based on the predicted force

[timid thunder]

Ok would I get the predicted force with predicted path?

Or would I use something different

[elfin wolf]

could easily do that in bp https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRw8ALafDF8

this is a good place to start

same mechanics

[timid thunder]

Ok thx

[digital lantern]

Hi, I'm trying to spawn two actors randomly which I can do but I would like if possible that an actor can't spawn twice

[earnest tangle]

One easy way to do it is to make an array with all your valid actor classes, pick an index from it at random, and remove it from the array

This way anything that was already spawned will not be in the array for any subsequent spawns

[digital lantern]

I found this on the forum, is this what you are talking about?

[earnest tangle]

kind of hard to say when that screenshot is the size of a postage stamp lol

[digital lantern]

Sorry ^^

[earnest tangle]

Yeah sort of like that, although in that example it always spawns them in the same order

[digital lantern]

Ok ok, thanks for the help I'll try some stuff on my side

[night tartan]

Anyone available who knows about structs, enums and data tables?

[tight schooner]

If you have a question, just ask in the channel... Those are pretty common things to know about

[kindred loom]

Hi folks, does anyone know how to call a custom event inside a function? is it possible and if not so, why not?

I'd like to create a custom event on a "Bind Event to On Destroyed" call inside a function however I can't seem to make that work.

[mellow folio]

Did you try to do it?

It’s easy

Create the event

Create the function

Call the event

[kindred loom]

I can call the event as a function, however I can't set is as a bind

e.g. like here

[dawn gazelle]

Drag off of the "Event" pin and you should have the option to "Create Event" which you can then select any valid functions or events that match to bind to, or create a new event or function.

[mellow folio]

CREATE EVENT

[kindred loom]

bro chill 😄

[kindred loom]

aight thanks!

[kindred loom]

worked for a sec, however after creating the event I can't find it anymore in the dropdown

all inside the function

[cinder shell]

I've been having trouble with a blueprint, it's all here https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/blueprint-runtime-error-accessed-none-trying-to-read-property-callfunc-getactorofclass-returnvalue-node/579128?u=spaceflier. Can someone please help?

[night tartan]

I have more than a question to ask, to understand how structs, enums and data tables work, and how can they fit in my project, that's why I'm looking to have a private and quiet conversation

( on voice ofc )

[zealous moth]

@cinder shell this means that your BP is pointing to a null value. Either add a check to skip if actor is null or always add an actor

[digital lantern]

Mmh, I have a problem, my items can appear in the same place which can have the effect that items can stack on the same place, a solution?

The solution

[glass stump]

When creating a save system, am I correct in saying that in order to define which enemies have been destroyed, in the Enemy BP, I should create a bool for 'IsDestroyed?' to get at EventBeginPlay and if it's set to 'True' it instantly destroys the enemy? So that way I can save the bool to implement, when the game is loaded, which enemies are destroyed and not?
Would this be how this would be done?

Or is there a better way?

I thought if I reloaded the game everything would be reset back to where it started?

Which I'm fine with, but if the player has destroyed an enemy, I'd like it to remain destroyed.

[maiden wadi]

It would. But at different memory locations. Pointers are memory locations.

[glass stump]

Hmmm. I think I need to watch more tutorials on it. XD

[maiden wadi]

I would honestly avoid youtube tutorials on it. You're not going to get a very good understanding from them.

[glass stump]

I have this UE tutorial open, is that good? It feels like it's missing a lot tbh. https://docs.unrealengine.com/4.26/en-US/InteractiveExperiences/SaveGame/

Ahh, I see! I'll look into more information about the maps, thank you. :)

Ooh I see.

[livid ingot]

To follow on this, an easy way to keep track of dead enemies would simply be to assign them ids and create an array/set of dead enemies. You can save that information as part of your savedata object

When you load the data you can query this data and either destroy those enemies on startup or simply not spawn them

Thinking more on this, it's annoying to assign ids manually so maybe you could randomly generate the ids? But maybe set a random seed so that the ids are the same everytime

[unique turret]

Looking for some info on hit events. I'm playing around with a sound cue firing when a environment asset it bumped. If my player character (default FPS) bumps it, I get a hit event. However, if I set up a test BP with a moving cube (which has collision - BlockAll - enabled) I'm not getting a hit event from that actor. So, what setting defines which actors create hit events? Thanks!

[maiden wadi]

The major drawback is BP. You could easily handle that with a subsystem. Have the class register itself for a unique ID, give it one. Then the save system can use that for it's lookup.

[livid ingot]

Ohhh really? Are they consistent through each play session?

I assume these are assigned at begin play?

Neat

[tight schooner]

Make sure both collidable components have generate hit events enabled

[maiden wadi]

Where is that at? I wouldn't mind looking that up.

[unique turret]

I only see "simulation generates hit events" - which is not turned on for my player capsule, yet am still getting hits.

[kindred loom]

no one there to help me out on this one huh?

[livid ingot]

What does it say when you hover over ERROR in the custom event

[fathom cobalt]

Can someone please help me? I have a blueprint that spawns at the end of a line trace, and it's supposed to attach itself to an actor when it spawns

but when i shoot it at a moving target, it doesn't attach. it just floats there in space.

is there a way to make sure this actor sticks to an actor when it touches it?

or would it work better if I made it into an actual projectile?

[minor dew]

Hey guys!
Does someone have a method for changing the player character (or default pawn class) to create a working character selection?
Kinda lost here, searched on every google result didn't found a solid one to work.

[burnt canyon]

Whats the node for checking if your in viewport, editor window, ingame etc

[rich tiger]

Hi guys! I've noticed some marketplace stuff can hide categories in an actor if a boolean is turned on or off, for example, I have this Random Rotation boolean and I have a sub category called Random Rotation (I want to show that category only when the boolean is set to true), how would I accomplish that? Thanks in advance!

[kindred loom]

"Event node RespawnEvent registers net Destroyed Actor in a non-event graph."

[plain helm]

Who has link to tutorial about damage effect with fresnel on material?

[cobalt gulch]

How do I cast to a gamemode without errors?

[plain helm]

be more specific man

[cobalt gulch]

I need to put something in the object input

[unique turret]

Is there a cleaner/more efficient way of setting this up? Basically, just checking 4 booleans (in this case, which xy quadrant am I in?); only one will be true. Is there a single node I can use for this? I was thinking select, but my mind can't wrap around how I'd do that.

[cobalt gulch]

Mine looks kinda different?

[plain helm]

ue4?

[cobalt gulch]

ue5

[plain helm]

mine is UE4

[cobalt gulch]

ah kk

[maiden wadi]

That isn't a UE4/UE5 difference.

[naive stag]

How can I link an actor to created group of actors?

[maiden wadi]

You could convert that down to an integer and switch on that. Not much of a huge difference in the end.

[warm summit]

@tight schooneryes I have heard of this recently too. Is it preferrable than the ref to self passed in from the parent? That seems to avoid the Casting stuff you were mentioning too?!

[faint pasture]

You fundamentally don't understand what casting is

[naive stag]

How can I find items with same variable?

[empty marten]

Hey peeps,
Does anyone know the directory in which the "Import File as Texture 2D" saves to? All I get is \Engine\Transient.... and that isn't enough to find it. Anyone know?

[maiden wadi]

Sounds like it doesn't actually save save it. Transient folder sounds like something that gets wiped.

[empty marten]

Well the problem I have is I'm trying to import a file and rename it but its saying it already exists in that directory and its started doing this after a crash so now I need to figure something out

[maiden wadi]

Have you deleted the source file in the project directory?

[empty marten]

No

[maiden wadi]

Might be worth doing that and then trying to reimport it again.

[empty marten]

Will try that now.

That did it. Thank you 🙂

I'm new to importing files through BP like this so still figuring a few things out XD

[brisk comet]

Hi guys, new to Unreal but not game dev. As a test, I want to place a large platform in the air and tie it's rotation x/y to the mouse x/y (to balance a ball). How would I set up a project for that? Would I make the platform my main character (pawn) and just create a playercharacter BP for it or something more direct?

[tawdry surge]

You could make the platform a pawn and adjust rotation based on the mouse's axis values

[empty marten]

Is the Transient folder something I could tell the BP to delete all files in?

Or would it also store other things?

[maiden wadi]

Not sure. I don't usually mess with file structures. Just noted that a folder named Transient sounds like a place you'd store temporary stuff, as it's name implies.

[cyan bone]

Im lerping instances in a 2d floor. Its working great. But now i added in hills, and my instances have no collision. So how do i make sure the instances stay on the Z of this "irregular" ground?

[empty marten]

OK. Thank you. Don't suppose you know anyone in here who does?

[brisk comet]

Can you describe what BP's I'd need for that?

Not their contents, just how they're hooked up

[maiden wadi]

I doubt that anyone in the BP channel would. C++ channel might have someone that knows what the folder is for.

[tight schooner]

The "owner" stuff? It's not preferable per se... It's just built in. It's more generic so when you "get owner" it just gives you a plain old actor reference; you'd still have to interface or cast to it to do anything more specific. If it makes more sense to use an expose-on-spawn variable to store a reference, then go ahead and do that

[empty marten]

OK. Thank you 🙂

[tawdry surge]

@brisk comet should just need a pawn and an actor
Pawn (platform) rotates
Actor (ball) collides with platform and simulates physics

[void jewel]

how can i create a spline (set points) from an array of vector? I can set start and end, but is there a way to "add point" which I can do from looping my array of vectors?
edit: there's a add point. i had the wrong component

[opal ivy]

This is probably a very stupid question, but how do I restart a niagara system with blueprint without reinit'ing it?

Or rather, if I spawn a niagara system, how do I fo about setting parameters for it via blueprint before it actually spawns particles?

[tight schooner]

activate and deactivate nodes

will start and stop the emitter

on the component, you can uncheck "auto activate"

but I think if you activate the component (or spawn it auto-activated) and set the parameters in the same frame, it'll just work

[opal ivy]

all right, thank you

[tight schooner]

I get the impression that niagara updates after all of the BP is done executing (rather than during), though I can't say for sure

[empty needle]

Hi, is there a way to see whether a event is still bound?

[gentle urchin]

I ended up doing a ton of traces to figure out the floor angles between any two points

[royal trellis]

anyone had luck importing new 'appearance settings' into the editor? i made some color tweaks on a different ue5 project, saved everything, but cant get my other projects to get the same colors. importing doesnt seem to do anything

[opal ivy]

https://i.imgur.com/5zpPV3s.png

I've still got something I'm doing wrong

[lusty arrow]

Any idea how to replicate the pitch of a flashlight on a weapon? I've tried a million different methods and nothing is working out for me, oddly. I need to replicate the pitch of the flashlight to other clients. The server and the local client see it just fine, obv.

This is on a First Person character's weapon

[dark crow]

Aim Offset?

[opal ivy]

So, my Actor has a niagara system that is emitting when I manually drag the actor into my scene. It is NOT emitting when I add it via Spawn Actor from Class

Any thoughts?

Adding a sphere for some simple debugging does show me that the actor is spawning, but the system isn't working

[rough warren]

why does multicast just never work?

It just seems it doesnt do anything

[lusty arrow]

Nevermind, I fixed it. I used World rotation instead of relative rotation :). the flashlight is synced now across users!

[lusty arrow]

U do a multicast from a run on server event.

A multicast will broadcast what ur code is doing to all players, who are relevant

[rough warren]

ohhh

ok i'm just dumb than

also, do you by chance know how to set a value to like nill

[lusty arrow]

I believe all variables have a default value, so i dont know actually. The only stuff that typically doesnt are objects, if they weren't instantiated.

[rich tiger]

Yeah I wanted to do it with blueprints only, but everywhere im looking it appears you can only do it by code, bummer

[empty needle]

Hi, is there a way to verify if a binding is active?

At a point, this binding is not active anymore, and I'm not sure why it's happening.

[crystal stone]

how can i make this bypass autowalk/nav where i can jump over things

when i have just s cube it wont let me jump on top

[cinder shell]

I'm pretty new to unreal engine and have no idea how to implement that, can you please give me an example?

[crystal stone]

well i have click to move its will autopath a way up when walking but when i jump it wants to take the walking way

wont jump off or on

[floral anvil]

Anyone know why trying to create my mesh along a spline deforms it like this? Doesn't matter if it's a regular spline or a spline mesh it always looks like this no matter how much or how little i do in the BP

[crystal stone]

here is a better idea of what i mean

im trying to bypass the autopath when jumping

[weak hill]

hey looking around is there anyway to make it so that if the player dies it gets rid of their saved character or locks that load selection?
any forms are anything if anyone knows ive been doing searches and i haven't found anything.

[sleek kite]

Hey, slightly unrelated. Anyone here with any experience with retool.com? Trying to generate an API from csv and it keeps rejecting my CSV after a few seconds.

[minor wolf]

whats the difference between Custom Event vs a function with no return values? also is the Delay node dependent on frame-rate?

[opaque patio]

quick question (i hope)
so Im using geometry scripts to kinda make a "copy a mesh certain amount in a ceratin direction" tool thingy
All works great, all but this. The OffsetUV is instance editable

aka in short what I want to do, is offset the UV of each appended mesh by a bit so that you won't get the exact same UV's for each mesh. The problem is that right now they all get an even offset

full node network

[spark steppe]

just use a random float (in range) to set the X/Y values for the UV Offset?!

[inland igloo]

Guys I am a bit new to blueprint and where should I learn about more components and examples? I have done a few courses before, but I want to know more deeper.

[wise tide]

I want both of these events to execute the exact same nodes, I can drag the exec pins into the same chain but it can only accept one "New Player" pin.

What should I do?

[wise tide]

In this specific scenario I found a better solution, but I am still curious on what to do in situations where different node paths want to merge into one, passing their inputs into the same node (such as those 2 new player nodes both passing into the cast)

I can make a variable and set them in both paths and pull from the variable for the cast, but that seems sloppy and I assume there is a more tidy solution

[trim matrix]

Just make a custom event

Make this custom event execute the CastTo node and everything after

Give this custom event a input that passes along the NewPlayer

Make both EventOnPostLogin and EventHandleStartingNewPlayer call this newly created custom event.

@wise tide

[wise tide]

That does make sense, thanks

[thin iris]

Anyone know how to get the up vector and right vector of a simulated physics object based it's direction of travel? Willing to a couple of bucks over on paypal if someone can help, this is driving me mad. Trying to add movement/spin to a ball in the air

[opaque patio]

nope, doesnt work. Think I kinda found why. I'm using dynamic meshes here, aka each instance isn't it's own "mesh", and they are all instanced from a input mesh, aka alter one and alter all i guess. Idk if that's how the new dynamic meshes work but i figured so

[spark steppe]

is that using an ISM/HISM component? then you could use the mesh index in the material as seed for the UV shuffle

[opaque patio]

not sure what that is, sorry.

[wintry geyser]

I think this is more of a Design question, but let's say I make a basic system where a player holds a dynamic object like a Torch that can be enabled/disabled while in the hand, and then can throw said item. Should both in-hand, and thrown object be the same Blueprint, or do I need to build that same functionality in the Character + 'thrown'?

Then I guess another question would be, if they ARE the same, is there a way to detach the object on throw, or should I just destroy the one in the hand, and then spawn a separate one outside of the Character BP?

[spark steppe]

you can and should detach it

[upper summit]

Has anyone else been having a PlayerController "forget" about it's controlled Pawn?
I have the following blueprint which is pretty basic, and was working. But I made some changes to the FSH_Pawn class and all of the sudden GetControlledPawn is now returning Null (I have not changed the game mode, everything there is still as it should be) and as such nothing works.

[cyan bone]

can anyone help me in #graphics ?

[upper summit]

The only thing I can think of is that there's an error in my pawn actor which is causing it to not properly compile and thus never actually be created, but the editor isn't showing any errors, and the pawn is so simple that it seems very unlikely that there's an issue in it... (And again, editor isn't showing any issues. I've saved and recompiled numerous times)

Narrowing down the issue, the Pawn is definitely never being created, which explains why it's returning Null. But now I can't find any reason for the Pawn to not be created...

[upper summit]

Following up on this in case anyone comes across it through searching: The pawn was indeed not being created because it had some sort of error in it. No idea what it was, and don't have any way of figuring it out. My solution was to just rebuild the pawn from the ground up and it worked then.

[rough warren]

Well, I'd like to set a value of an actor variable to nill

[tawdry surge]

You can just set it and don't pass anything in.

[sudden lynx]

to support 4 player local multiplayer with optional keyboard control instead of gamepad for up 2 of the players, assigning either of the keyboard control sets to any of the players, and gamepad to any of the players, I have an array of enums to tell each player controller which pawn to call functions on to move the pawn and do actions.

Is there a better way that makes this possible without having playercontrollers indirectly control pawns they do not actually possess?

[tawdry surge]

Don't the input events handle that by default?

[thin panther]

By default actor vars are nullptr im pretty sure

[rough warren]

but I'd like to set my already set variable to a null'

[tawdry surge]

Make a set node

[faint pasture]

Direction of travel doesn't imply an up

[tawdry surge]

No input

[faint pasture]

If you're trying to have spin curve the projectile, that'll be a function of the cross product between angular velocity and linear velocity

[high fractal]

https://prnt.sc/iEEf3UvVJU86
Anyone here using GAS and know how to make this work using Enhanced Inputs? For clarity this is Lyra Input System.

I need to be able to specify multiple Gameplay Abilities and really need the inputs able to be rebound.

[minor wolf]

Try #gameplay-ability-system

[rough warren]

How do you lock the bp lines like that?

[thin panther]

Electric nodes plugin

[vapid ibex]

Any advice on how to realize combo moves? I've set up my control BP so that player's input is written into a buffer of enums, and I can in principle convert them to string and search a match in it against a string list of possible combo moves, but the current problem is that if there's combo "aa" (attack pressed twice) and "aaa", then "aaa" will always be overridden by "aa" combo. How can I solve this?

[trim matrix]

i think GAS can help with that, haven't experimented with it much yet so search it up

[misty pendant]

How can i do something like a hover system, i did the things now but I'm trying to make the game when the line is not tracing inside the mesh anymore and remove the outline

[untold fossil]

How can I get the name of a slate brush for debugging purposes?

Somewhere along the line of some code my slate brush is lost, I need to debug where it happens. Can't do that sadly though if I can't print it 😦

The only thing I can do is promote it to a variable I then remove afterwards, but then I have to make countless variables along the way just to debug the value, that's pretty ridiculous 😢

Oh, nvm found it. It's a struct XD had to break it lol

my bad

[odd veldt]

Brushes do not have a name
You can make a map array with strings(text or names) and the brushes

[untold fossil]

Yeah I just figured out it's a struct. Was derping, it's early I guess 🥲

[odd veldt]

Does someone know how I can rotate a transform around a location? (world space)
I found a way to rotate the location, but I had a problem with the rotation.

[sinful gust]

This may be a dumb question, but why the variables set up in my child data asset ain't showing up to use?

[brazen pike]

Are you talking about variables inherited from the parent?

[sinful gust]

Nope, I think I haven't explained myself properly - I have a generic DataAsset (derived form PrimaryDataAsset) which defines all the common variables of the items. Then, I've created a child which adds specific properties, in this case, the bow stats (shot speed etc). I have assigned one DataAsset based on this last one to my item, but when trying to access the specific properties, there only appear the variables from the parent

[brazen pike]

you made all of the child variables non-public?

[sinful gust]

Ok, I found a workaround, I can simply cast the dataAsset. Idk if it's a bug or if I have done anything wrong, but it works

[misty pendant]

does anyone know how to implement this?

[brazen pike]

make the hit actor a variable which you do unhover off of, which is then reset after you do unhover

if the linetrace returns false, the hit component will be invalid because it didn't hit anything

so your setup there wouldnt work

[misty pendant]

should i make it bool variable or not

[brazen pike]

no an actor reference

[misty pendant]

oh alright

[lone pond]

hi, is there any way to restrict which blueprint classes are visible to other blueprint classes? for example, i want to have a folder in my project that contains moddable blueprint classes, thats separated from the rest of the project. Because of that i want the moddable blueprints to not be able to access the rest of the project. Is there any way to do that?

[misty pendant]

ok i still didn't understand, i'm kind of dumb but how do i make like the actor obj reference to reset

[jagged stone]

The Load Game From Slot blueprint does not seem to work as expected when using arbitrary User Index values? I'm saving data using the different user index, (and verifying that the save object was created and contains the expected data)....then I open a new level and load the data with the same user indexes, but the data has changed?

[brazen pike]

A set node, where nothing connects to it. That means you're setting it as nothing

[jagged stone]

The "For some platforms" note on the User Index pin has be wondering if there is something weird about this?

[worthy tendon]

There is a function for rotating point around point. for rotation, simply combine TransformRotation with new rotation. scale does not change.

[whole coral]

Hello guys. Again I wanna ask a question here. I wanna use command: HighResShot filename= ... wxh to output high resolution photo

However, the output png is of very low resolution

Anyone knows the reason?

[raw orbit]

is there a node in ue5 to activate / deactivate an actor component? there seem to be delegates related to it but i cant find the node for some reason

[misty pendant]

after one hour i stil didnt figured it out im still confused ;_;

im kind of dumb rn my brain crashed

i don't get it

[versed sun]

maybe something like this ?

[misty pendant]

How can i add that hit actor to the hover/unhover

oh wait

[misty pendant]

1 problem with my graph, the target is different

if i put target as tv the node for target will get like this

[sinful gust]

My Unreal Engine is drunk

It has just thrown an "Accessed none" error on a IsValid xdd

[versed sun]

Check to see if its valid before you check to see if its valid

[acoustic lava]

If I am not mistaken, try rotating the transforms rotation on the same axis by the same amount

[tawdry surge]

@sinful gust chances are the error came from a pure node and the is valid was probably the first node with an execution pin after the error occurred

[sullen tundra]

how do I change actor billboard icon in derived bp class?

[hybrid ether]

Anyone who know sphere geometry? 😄 I need help to make navigation spline from player to city(end point). I have variables start point and end point. Then earth radius and middle point.

[mental trellis]

Technically you can do it with just 2 points with the right spline point settings

[hybrid ether]

hmm i will try

Thanks

[foggy escarp]

There's a couple circumstances that this will happen. It seems to be more like when there's a couple chains of ownership or it has to call a function to do so.

[livid ingot]

What type of path you trying to form? Like a half circle from start to city?

[hybrid ether]

like closest path to end point @livid ingot

[acoustic lava]

Maybe Try lerp rotator

With an interval on the alpha

Yeah lerp rotator with shortest path

[hybrid ether]

Thanks!

[viscid arrow]

What would be the best way to make the player always face an enemy while melee attacking?

[acoustic lava]

Depends

You could use control rotation

[icy dragon]

Set Actor Rotation
Though you would also have to make sure the movement input is not interfering (and if you can, use it for determining the direction for the next attack)

[viscid arrow]

I see

[viscid arrow]

Thanks

[icy dragon]

This will only set the camera rotation (typically)

[viscid arrow]

Didn’t know i could manipulate the controller

[viscid arrow]

That’s fine, the character moves with the camera

[acoustic lava]

Yeah if your first person it will work well but for 3rd person use set actor rotation

[icy dragon]

So you want to go the classic Doom route?

[viscid arrow]

No, it’s a 3rd person character

He just rotates whenever the camera rotates

[icy dragon]

So "pseudo FPS" then

[viscid arrow]

Kind of

Similar to elden ring

But not trying to do a lock on system

[wispy sapphire]

Question, I was interested in having a system where if the sun hits a plant it can effect its growth rate. I figure thats easily doable with just seeing if the plant object can shoot a trace to the sun like checking if your shot hits a target but I'm wondering if I was doing this on mass for a large volume of plants is this going to cause serious slow downs to the game and if so is there a better way of doing it?

[keen anchor]

Lets say i want to trigger a message to the player when a certain event fires, when hp gets below 50% for example
I put a check in the change hp logic to check if health < 50%, simple! Event fires, everything good!
Oh no, it fires every check of hp! Simple, add a bool value that gets set when message is sent!
But wait, i drank a health potion but got smacked in the face, now it triggered again and the player feels the game is broken for spamming them with messages.

How would i go about solving this in a smart way? Im thinking maybe using timers to reset the bool instead? Hp goes below 50%, bool set, timer for 2min starts, when timer goes to 0 bool is reset.
Is there a much smarter way that i am missing here? This feels like a very basic use cases that i assume everyone but me has solved already :S

[wispy sapphire]

@toxic jay Thanks!

[spark steppe]

htf do i get all subclasses of an class?

[icy dragon]

Also you might want to just sparsely trace the area and make less detailed grid.
It really depends on your time of day speed and how the environment is affected by the gameplay

[spark steppe]

thank you, but i would prefer BP for now

but considering that it's pretty much a 4 line function, there must be something similar for BP

maybe even 1 line, if you pass the array to fill 😛

[twilit heath]

its the TObjectIterator

so i wouldn't hold my breath

templated stuff generally doesn't work in BP at all

[spark steppe]

it does

you can have c++ functions with "dynamic" return type as BP Node

https://benui.ca/unreal/blueprint-return-typed-arrays/

[twilit heath]

you can pull all blueprint assets, load them, then check if the class is a child of

which is a terrible solution

[spark steppe]

well you would pass a UFooClass and get a UFooClass Array back

just because you haven't seen it yet, doesn't mean it doesn't exist :p

oh, yea right

but you missed the ufo pun i guess

yea, powering your anti gravity machine

btw. laura, is this still a problem? https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/tobjectiterator-uclass-skipping-unloaded-assets/68249

apparently it only iterates over what was loaded before?!

yea that is what i actually use it for

yea, my bad

i want to make this less fail prone, or let's say more sane

but i have no idea how to get the package name / asset name from a existing class reference (their mutual parent class)

urgh

[harsh coral]

what's the difference between a function and a group?

what does "functions can be reused from multiple places" mean

i mean what do you mean by locations

like different blueprints?

so it's like a macro?

[hexed token]

More specialized than a macro, as functions can have local variables

Wait really?

TIL

This is what I get for leaving my IDE

[sinful gust]

Was the first node on the execution line, and it was impure lmao

[harsh coral]

I can't seem to get a ref from an array, it always says it converted it back to a copy

how

[amber hill]

Is there a function that can do the opposite of this?

[tawdry surge]

Remove from parent

[amber hill]

Like such?

[tawdry surge]

Yeah basically

[harsh coral]

How can I change a parameter of a material during runtime?

[crude isle]

Yo

So I want to create a new button for each array index of something, but idk how to do that lol

I got to here but then I have no idea what to do next

and idk how to create a new button according to that index

[tawdry surge]

@harsh coral look up dynamic material instances
You need to make one and assign it (usually in the construction script) then at runtime you can set parameters to whatever

[harsh coral]

tanks

[dawn gazelle]

The "Loop Body" is the bit that gets repeatedly executed, so this is where you'd want to put your button creation. The "Array Element" is the value of current item the loop is on, and the "Array Index" is the index of the array that the current item is present in.

[crude isle]

Yeah lol, I know about arrays just that idfk how to create a new button

do I have to create a new widget for each of them or use the same widget but with different bindings idk lol

[dawn gazelle]

You might want to use a ListView to do it rather than generating several widgets and adding them to a scroll box.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JyMEAx8-nbY

[crude isle]

I see

lemmie see that vid rq

ty

[crude isle]

Can you add buttons for each element in the listview?

[dawn gazelle]

What you'd effectively be doing is creating a widget that contains whatever you need in it and you feed in variables to each of the items in the ListView (eg. Name, ID, whatever...). That widget should contain whatever functionality you need it to have, such as your buttons. The ListView then generates the required widgets on screen when needed with their associated values, so if you had say, 500 entries, but only 10 can show at once, it'll only have maybe about 14 widgets actually created in memory.

[crude isle]

oh ok

[hard creek]

Can I access components of a class? Say I'd like to know the radius of a collision sphere in a class before I spawn it, how do I do that?

[rain egret]

In a Modular ship Building Game, would it be smarter to have turrets be static meshes that are moved as component or would a skeletal mesh be smarter? Asking because if collisions and such

[spark steppe]

both have pros and cons, collisions are easier to manage in SM in my opinion

however, SKM can be animated multi threaded (tho for a turret the math runtime is pretty much not worth to consider that as benefit)

[rain egret]

Yea animations would be my main point

Convex collision for skeletal mesh would be cool

[spark steppe]

the math is pretty much the same, it would probably need hundreds of turrets to benefit from an animation blueprint

and then i would rather go for c++ and do the animation there (even if it makes them lag 1 or 2 frames, no one would notice that) 😄

[rain egret]

Thanks I will consider it

[spark steppe]

maybe the animation bp in case of a turret would even counter the runtime benefits...

i would definitive go SM in your case

[rain egret]

I will prolly do skeletal because of the animations which will be more complex

[spark steppe]

for a turret?!?!

what kind of turret is that? mechanical gun?

[rain egret]

Yes

[pearl moth]

How do i call a blueprint?

[spark steppe]

ok, i was more thinking of laser turrets

well then you probably don't have much of a choice

[rain egret]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/151049317707153408/984093947586568242/unknown.png this sorta stuff

[jolly cairn]

hi can someone help me with this please? I need to alter this so that it detects the static mesh and not a primitive component and then draw the outline. I have the methods for detection and everything working, it's just the outline drawing. I'm using a post process field and the component i want the outline around has the collision type needed and the tag 'Outline'.

what happens is this

i want my blowtorch to outline the same way. this works with stuff from the starter content, but not stuff i've imported

[faint pasture]

You sure your blowtorch mesh has the tag?

[jolly cairn]

100%

[faint pasture]

So what's the difference?

[jolly cairn]

if i knew i wouldn't be asking here

[faint pasture]

A static mesh component IS a primitive component

[jolly cairn]

i got told in #graphics they aren't

so this is why im confused

like, this works fine for meshes included in the starter content, but not something I made and imported

[faint pasture]

Throw some print strings and breakpoints in that and see where it's breaking.

[faint pasture]

lol I was looking it up to see if I was right or talking out my ass

[jolly cairn]

so within is then, what would i need to change?

if anything

[devout wedge]

I guess I would start by setting another material?

[jolly cairn]

like i said, this is working fine for Starter Content meshes, and it's showing me the name of the object im looking at

[devout wedge]

like try to put on your mesh the same material that works with the starter content mesh

[pearl moth]

Not working :p

[jolly cairn]

looks like its got collision

[elfin wolf]

when you press play while still having the blueprint open, where does the white line stop while looking at your blowtorch

[jolly cairn]

not actually getting any white lines anywhere while playing with the blueprint, this is running off event tick for the detection, i've noticed im not getting them in most of my blueprints

[elfin wolf]

be sure to select your character (while playing)

[jolly cairn]

how can i do that with having a player start in my level?

i have no option for my player

[elfin wolf]

you do, while the game window is open click on your character in that dropdown

[jolly cairn]

so that's what happens when i look at something interactable

it's the same that happens on other interactable objects too

and the top white line fires when i look at something, both looking at something that gets outline, and the mesh that's not working

at this point i feel like it's something really dumb lol

i'll take another look at it tomorrow, thanks for the help all 🙂

[pearl moth]

Now someone could help me fixing the issue?