blueprint

[trim matrix]

i suppose it depends on how much data an individual clan would take up

100,000 clans aint a big deal if they are only 1mb each

[quaint geyser]

Yeah, but you shouldn’t have then loaded in memory at once

On the game server

[trim matrix]

Yeah

Ill go read up on it

[junior hedge]

what to GET if I am casting blueprint UI?

[thin panther]

A reference to the ui

That is spawned

[junior hedge]

I meant the object

[thin panther]

Yes

[fallen glade]

Is this the best way to take a snapshot of a material and store it?

[thin panther]

A reference ti the ui

A cast is a type chexk

[junior hedge]

these spawns?

[thin panther]

Basically saying, is this reference what i want it to be before i try to do X on it

Thats what a cast is

When you create the widgey

You need to store its reference in a variable

[quaint geyser]

You don’t need to store them as a variable

[thin panther]

You can also get actor of class

[quaint geyser]

You can use getplayercharacter

[thin panther]

Not for a ui...

[junior hedge]

warning when compiling

[quaint geyser]

Getcontrolled pawn

Or whatever it is

[thin panther]

Also not for a ui

If you are casting to a ui

Thats not a controlled pawn

[quaint geyser]

I mean the character variable

[thin panther]

That still doesnt work

[quaint geyser]

It does for me

[thin panther]

The character has nothing to do witht a widget

[junior hedge]

this is how I created the widget

[thin panther]

Ok so you got a ui ref

[quaint geyser]

The character variable in the widget

Is what i mean

[thin panther]

You also apparantly have no idea how that works

[quaint geyser]

What you mean?

[thin panther]

The character is not, and will never be the object to cast to for the ui

If i cast to the ui, i need a reference to it

Not the olayer

[quaint geyser]

What are you on about?

[junior hedge]

its fine

just guide me

please

[quaint geyser]

I said the variable in the UI

[junior hedge]

:)

[thin panther]

And you are going to get that how exactly, without casting to the ui

[junior hedge]

@thin panther

what should I be GETTING then?

[thin panther]

Right

[quaint geyser]

You get the player character right in the widget class

[thin panther]

Noooo

[quaint geyser]

I’ve done it multiple times in my game

[thin panther]

Arghhhh

Get player character works anywhere as its saved in the gamemode

[junior hedge]

it says warning though

[thin panther]

But it doesnt help at all

[thin panther]

Ignore futureize

Ok?

Yes

Ignore you

Because youre trying to use the player var to cast to a UI

Omg

[quaint geyser]

Do you know how to read?

I never said that

[thin panther]

Yes you did

[quaint geyser]

No, I didn’t

[thin panther]

You said get player character

[quaint geyser]

Scroll up and read through my posts

[thin panther]

In the ui

[quaint geyser]

Very carefully

To see where you messed up

[thin panther]

Youre assuming theyre in the ui

They want to cast TO the ui

[quaint geyser]

Cast a player to the ui?

[thin panther]

That needs a reference to the ui

[quaint geyser]

When did I ever say that?

[thin panther]

It was implied

As they were asking about casting to the ui, and what to use as the object, you replied with get player character

[quaint geyser]

I said his multiple variables in the ui are unneeded.

[mental trellis]

Maybe the UI is on the player's back!

Or part of his hat.

[quaint geyser]

Bruh I never said that

[thin panther]

That doesnt answer his question

Sure the vars are unnecessaru

[quaint geyser]

I wasn’t answering his question

I was making a statement on the specific image

[thin panther]

Thats my bad i thought you were trying to help

[quaint geyser]

That I replied to

[thin panther]

But you werent

Anyway

[quaint geyser]

I was

[thin panther]

To answer the question

[quaint geyser]

But u have no reading comprehension

So misunderstood what I was saying

[junior hedge]

and listen to who

you guys want to start an argument when I ask a question

[thin panther]

You need to get that ui ref you have saved to cast to the ui

[quaint geyser]

What is your question?

[thin panther]

Typically to keep things simple

Ui is handled in a hud class

[quaint geyser]

I made a remark on you saving multiple unneeded variables in the ui

[quaint geyser]

Wrong

[thin panther]

So you can get hud -> get all the ui refs you need

[thin panther]

Its quite common

[quaint geyser]

Not from what I’ve seen

HUD is deprecated iirc

[thin panther]

Hud is deprecated definitely, but using it as a non persistent medium with easy getter/setters does help

The actual hud specific uses are ehhh

[junior hedge]

so I cast to NEWHUD to get the CAMERABAR variable?

[quaint geyser]

Sure, but what if you need certain UI on certain pawns

[thin panther]

But its a good container class

[quaint geyser]

Easier to store references on controllers/pawns

And usually what I’ve seen in games

[junior hedge]

Ok I will restate my question

[thin panther]

It all depends really

[junior hedge]

I have a variable from a BLUEPRINT UI

I want to get the variable

from the blueprint UI

[thin panther]

Yes

You need to get a reference to the ui

[quaint geyser]

But store a UI reference in the player controller

[thin panther]

In some form

[junior hedge]

can I have an example

[quaint geyser]

GetWidgetUI.AddToViewport

From anywhere

Using the class with that reference

Then to get variables from the ui, cast the player character to your character

[thin panther]

Accessing the variable needs an actor ref, in a class you can already cast to, then you can get the ref, cast to the ui and do whatever shenanigans you want

Again a cast is nothing more than a type check

It just wants to see if the reference you have is of the type it wants

[junior hedge]

I tried casting to newhud and didnt work

[thin panther]

No no you missunderstnad

The ui

You have created

That reference

You save

In a var called ui ref

[junior hedge]

right

[thin panther]

You need that as your object to cast to WhateverYourUIIsCalled

So you need to access it somehow

You can store it whereever you want as long as its easily accessible

[junior hedge]

then what

[thin panther]

I like mine in the hud if its for stuff like main menus of single player games

We have given you a step by step

If you cannot follow that then it may be tike to take some beginner learn.unrealengine.com courses

[quaint geyser]

I would suggest looking into some more documentation on blueprints and the actor types

[junior hedge]

I have UI Ref added and stored in a safe place

now what

[quaint geyser]

So retrieve that from wherever needed

Using Get (variable name) on the actor it’s in

And then do whatever you need with it

[thin panther]

I swear they need to start paying me for that advertisement 😅

Do be warned with the documentation tho

Its iffy in places

[junior hedge]

like this?

[thin panther]

Like a lot of places

No

[quaint geyser]

No

[thin panther]

Not like that

[quaint geyser]

Get HUD

Cast to newhud

[thin panther]

Please take some beginner courses

You will benefit a lot

[quaint geyser]

Then get the ref from there

Then set the variable on that object

No cast needed after that

[thin panther]

I apologize for how things got a tad heated back there Futurize, it was a misunderstanding blown a tad out of proportion

[quaint geyser]

No problem

[junior hedge]

get hud when casting to newhud? its not an option

[quaint geyser]

Get hud first

Then cast that to new hud

Or whatever the getter for hud is

[thin panther]

Also make sure newhud is the hud class defined in your game mode

[quaint geyser]

I store mine in player controller

[thin panther]

I think it is get hid ye

I lile mine in hud personally however that falls apart a bit for more multi use elements like enemy heakth bars etc.

[junior hedge]

it is

[thin panther]

I only use my hud class for doing main menu, and player HUD type things

So if its an enemy health bar, specific to each enemy

[junior hedge]

like this?

it errors out

[thin panther]

Also needs a player controller hooking up there

[thin panther]

Now you can use that ui ref to cast to the ui

[junior hedge]

ok I think I got it now

[thin panther]

Ok

Now if you ever need to move that elsewhere, all you need to do is change where you get that UI ref from

[icy dragon]

The ball might be simulating physics on its own

[thin panther]

Now that sounds like a great chaotic game idea

[icy dragon]

Personally I would've just fake it

[junior hedge]

like this right?

ok it works now thanks

appreciate it

oh yeah I promoted to variable

I will change it

thx

also everytime I press save all it makes me name a level idk why

[thin panther]

You only need to save the vars once really, anything else is a precious waste of bytes

If you press save all and it does that then it means you have a new level that hasnt actuakky been saved into content browser

Sort of like an untitled word doc

[junior hedge]

im not creating new levels tho

idk why its doing that

they're just dupes

of my level

just checkd

checked

[thin panther]

Thats odd

[junior hedge]

yeah I just backed them up and deleted

[thin panther]

Dont think ive heard of that one before

[junior hedge]

maybe ue5 bug

or somehow my fault

how can I set a level to boot up when I load a project

when I moved my level to my content folder now it starts with no level

[thin panther]

Priject settings > maps and modes

[junior hedge]

thanks

[thin panther]

Theres an option for edotor startup level

[junior hedge]

it says its not here how can I get it back without having to remake entire sequence

nvm ill just copy and paste

[desert juniper]

Is possible to disable input on a character, but still have it enabled for one of the actor component?

[real notch]

Is there a better way to invert a vector than this:

In c++ I can just -vector. So this feels weird :p

[faint badge]

https://docs.unrealengine.com/4.26/en-US/BlueprintAPI/Math/Vector/NegateVector/

[real notch]

Thank you

[lapis ridge]

My skeletal mesh flies away whenever my character moves! Does anyone know what could be causing this? It seems to magnify the input (when my character moves a little it flies off)

[timid thunder]

would anyone know how to fix the player spinning issue?

[junior hedge]

what is flipflop node?

what does it do

[desert juniper]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ReMToas_8Yg

Matthew has made one of these for almost every node in unreal

[junior hedge]

idk why i had that in my node wtf

[gentle urchin]

Its a branch basically

Going true/false every other time

[runic moss]

im trying to rotate the root bone in my animation blueprint for this character, but instead of rotating laterally, it rotates into the air. is there a way to force the rotation to happen on a certain axis (i think thats whats going wrong). i have the aim offset yaw set for the rotation.

[junior hedge]

any good way I can trace this into a blueprint>

?

[spark steppe]

trace?

[icy dragon]

I bet this is Mixamo Rig.

[sick condor]

hey I need someone help xD I made an openable chest for my fps game but it won't open can anyone maybe take a look at it I've looked through it but I cant quite find the point where it went wrong (msg me for the code its very messy and long)

[oak owl]

Hi everyone, I've managed to get my virtual camera working in unreal. Is there a way to map a vive controller to a cameras zoom focus etc using blueprints?

[jade zinc]

Hi, why does MultiLineTraceByChannel actually stops on the first hit?
And so MultiLineTraceForObjects returns two, but still not all hits???

[tawdry surge]

If it hits something that is set to block either the channel or object type it will not trace behind it
If you want it to return everything make sure your collisions are set to overlap for the trace channel or object you are using

[exotic warren]

Interesting that this negate node is pure, I noticed lots of the other ones like negate float aren’t

[spark steppe]

the non pure ones negate permanent

at least that's what one would expect

[runic moss]

seeing as youre right, yk how to fix it?

[drifting steeple]

Hi guys I trying to make a sliding blueprint for my character that triggers when I press the walk, the sprint, and the crouch key at once Can anyone tell me how I could do that? I would be very important to know

[broken night]

Hi, I'm having some troubles using my "Interaction" interface. The interface has a function (Interact), which receives a PlayerController as an argument. (pic 1)

When I then try to implement this function in a class implementing this interface, I get this (pic 2). However, I can't seem to understand what the error is there. Can someone please point out?

Oh and this is the error

[runic moss]

nvm, i hooked the aim offset yaw value to the rotate root bone "pitch" input. works like a charm lmfaooo

[tawdry surge]

@broken night what does it look like on the parent class?

[high ocean]

Oh no! I'm retarded again... I need some math help with something so simple I'm ashamed lol. I want a variable that would set playback speed of an animation "in seconds". If my var = 0.5, the playback speed (which is always 1 second for all anims) is 2. If the var is .25, then playback speed is 4... Oh man, being dumb is so hard, I swear!

[trim matrix]

1/seconds = playback speed

[high ocean]

@trim matrixThank you! *somehow feel like crying not smiling now tho

[trim matrix]

[naive stag]

How can i find the vector from the centre point?

I want to create 4 walls around the square

in runtime

[slim grove]

i made this death BP to respawn the player when it falls too far down im just wondering if it is efficent or if there is somthing very wrong with it

[tawdry surge]

Unreal has a kill z built into the level by default

Set it in the world settings tab

The way you should respawn is in the controller you bind a delegate to the on death event of the player, unpossess, spawn a new character at the respawn point, and possess it

[slim grove]

how could i do that and what is a delegate

[zealous moth]

@icy dragon I am considering it but at the same time, i really want this to work somehow...

here's the issue

ignoring the fact the ball is always visible, it just rolls off and i can control it

hm lemme upload it instead

[naive stag]

can anyone please help me?

[zealous moth]

https://youtu.be/B760Q05znFg

[zealous moth]

what is it you want to do?

[tawdry surge]

@slim grove inside the player controller event on possess-> "get controlled pawn"-> assign on destroyed
That will make you a delegate event.
Off there do what I described above

[naive stag]

Place an actor (wall) on 4 sides of the square based on the centre point location

[zealous moth]

get actor location. This is your central point. Get forward vector -> you can use that direction and offset it by X in front and back. Get right vector -> same but for the sides

[tawdry surge]

Get bounds of the square
It will return the origin and extents.
Use them to place the walls

[broken night]

Looks like the error was because I didn't save (not compile) the parent class after editing the blueprint it was implementing. The children had the right signature from the inherited interface, but not from its parent. Not exactly sure this is it, but that looks like it

[naive stag]

Do i multiply forward vector on centre point vector?

[tawdry surge]

Just get the bounds. They give you the extents and the origin

Add to the x extent to the origin for the front, subtract for the back
Repeat on y for left and right

[naive stag]

thats not the result I want to have

[tawdry surge]

You want to place a wall along each side of a square

[naive stag]

First of all, one wall per square

[desert juniper]

Is possible to disable input on a character, but still have it enabled for one of the actor component?

[naive stag]

and it has to be a random direction out of 4

[tawdry surge]

Ok so you want one wall per square and you want it to be totally random which side it spawns the wall?

[naive stag]

One actor (square) contains 5x5 square grid within it. I want inside of the grid to be what you said. And for the outside face of the actor to be always closed.

Do u understand what i mean?

[tawdry surge]

Ok. Did you spawn the grid in the construction script or place it in the BP viewport tab by hand?

[naive stag]

BP viewport. It has 25 panels

I later on inside of the blueprint made an array that connects all of those panels together

[tawdry surge]

So in this instance it'd have been easier to do it procedurally.
However you can loop through each tile in the array get the forward and right vectors, invert them to get back and left. Do the 4 line traces to determine if there is anything along the sides and use those results to place the walls

[zealous moth]

well then, i made it work! @icy dragon
https://youtu.be/TtfEM8KEebI
The only tweak left is the excessive sliding

[tawdry surge]

Still need the bounds to place them on the selected edge(s)

Assuming corners have 2

[naive stag]

I only have problem with getting walls vector

[tawdry surge]

What do you mean?

[naive stag]

getting the vector of where the wall should be placed

[tawdry surge]

Maybe I wasn't clear. When you "get bounds" of the tile it will return the origin and a vector for the extents.
The origin is the location vector for the origin point of that tile.
The extents are the distance from that point that the tile extends.
If you split it and add the x value to the x value of the origin point you have the edge along positive x.
If you subtract the x value from the x value of origin point you have the edge position along negative x.
Same thing applies for Y.

[proven loom]

hello. is there a way to save all of my blueprints with all of the latest class redirects so i can remove them all from my DefaultEngine.ini?

maybe like a commandlet?

[manic geode]

Erm... somehow Ctrl+W does not work in UE5... I cant duplicate the collision box.

[spark steppe]

CTRL + D

idk why the HECK they changed it

CTRL + W now closes windows, which is so fricking annoying xD

[proven loom]

ctrl+w is used everywhere now

[spark steppe]

yes

[proven loom]

it'll take a bit to get used to for sure

[spark steppe]

but if your mind is trained to use it to duplicate in UE you'll have a hard time

i honestly even manage to hit CTRL + W, open the blueprint which i closed and just do it again 😄

[wheat aurora]

Always thought you can't duplicate them up until ue5 cuz I always used ctrl + d 🗿

[quasi folio]

is there a way to arrange an array? Say I have 2+ players, and I want to identify Player 1 and 2 respectively.

or is that not possible?

[gentle urchin]

You can sort it however you like ofc

[quasi folio]

Yes, but how would I go about it? I'm using get all actors of class to get all my players.

[gentle urchin]

You can make a function with insert if the players may enter at different times yet beeing pre-destined to a specific player numero

Youd usually add them to the array when they join the game

[quasi folio]

right, they're not online players

They'd be AI.

[gentle urchin]

Assuming multiplayer

Ah

Then on their beginplay Register them to your AI Manager or whatever 😄

[quasi folio]

Have you played the Xenoblade series for example? You can order your players, and they all have their health in the respective order at the side.

[gentle urchin]

No i havnt

Hmm

Isnt that just representation

So their bg array would be the same

Just the index references differ

[quasi folio]

Wouldn't this clear it up? Basically I want the controlled character to be in position 1.

@gentle urchin I was hoping for it to be possible to sort the array by a variable perhaps?

[mental trellis]

There's no real advacned sorting methods in bp, are there?

[quasi folio]

Not that I know, and its annoying.

[mental trellis]

Somebody wrote one in here a week or two ago if you can find it!

[gentle urchin]

Ive shared some sorting before

But i dont think you need it here really

You know which pawn the player controls

And which pawns are in the group

[quasi folio]

Yeah, I use auto possess.

[mental trellis]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/221798862938046464/983746938153365514/unknown.png

Whether it works or not, I have no idea.

The get node and the < operator in the middle is where the comparison is

[quasi folio]

LE Extended Std Library seems to do what I want

if it actually installs

[manic geode]

Its somehow in Simulating mode and I cant add a new function

The button is grey

ah

got it

I have a problem. I hit 'play' but My dummy character does not appear and vurtually nothing changes. Im an still not there. What do?

[glass stump]

my gosh making a save system has to be the most complicated thing in blueprints.

[glass stump]

is this a new project?

wait nvm looks like you have history i won't interfere.

[manic geode]

no

[glass stump]

not sure the history of the project so not sure what you want so probably i shouldn't say anything.

[manic geode]

Im already several days in it

I had my character running in it before, now I dont

And the play button has some extra 'gears' in it

weird

[spark steppe]

press the 3 dot button next to the eject button

and check if play in current viewport is selected

[wheat aurora]

Yeah, the "gears" indicate that you are playing in "simulation" mode

Gotta go to PIE (Play in Editor)

[mental trellis]

Simulation is basically just physics sims, not proper gameplay.

[spark steppe]

so we live in a simulation

matrix confirmed

[zealous moth]

So here's what I did.
I set up the BP ball to work as you would want it to do (minus all damping logic) so it rolls and doesn't overslide.
I added that same ball into a character, did some set up to change the camera to the ball when needed and to move the actor with the physics object.
However there is something wrong in the character setup where the ball inexplicable slides too much or spins too much.
Any ideas?

https://youtu.be/pXtfSpyHc8o

bp ball:

character ball:

literally everything is the same

i thought maybe the char movement comp is the issue so i set the tick to nothing and it didn't do much

[spark steppe]

probably gimbal lock

[zealous moth]

a what?!

[spark steppe]

how do you set the rotation?

[zealous moth]

this is for the char

and this is for the ball in char

this is for ball

the manip in the ball is so that if i move my camera, the direction is updated

roll torque amount is the same for both

the accel change bool did nothing

[spark steppe]

print the torque on screen every frame?

maybe you just need a cap for the torque

i haven't worked with torque yet, so it's just an assumption of mine

[zealous moth]

pffft the vector torque results are.... wow

for character

[fallen glade]

Is there a better way to store material values then this?

[spark steppe]

yea probably because you keep adding torque

so limit that somehow (idk if theres an option in the physics settings, or if you have to limit it by comparing the actual torque to some limit before you add more)

[zealous moth]

i just compared, the torque amount is fine

[tight schooner]

Maybe as a full blown dynamic material instance?? Dunno

[zealous moth]

huh actually weird behaviour

if i start and make it go forward, for char i get torque in Y for max amount and X for some reason

but for ball i get only Y

actually nvm

same behaviour

[fallen glade]

Ah.... mmm ... I think i need to get myself checked. thank you.

[zealous moth]

gonna ask in physics

[wraith eagle]

Is it normal to get this many landscape "parts" when making a landscape??

[spark steppe]

have you tried limiting the torque?!....

also if your ball is ON the character, it may inherit the torque?

[zealous moth]

but the torque amount is the same

[spark steppe]

the same as what?

on all axis?

[zealous moth]

no no, it is limited to the roll torque i set and when compared to the regular ball it is the same

[spark steppe]

the values you showed are insanely high

[zealous moth]

again, same as the template

[limber parcel]

i couldnt find an offtopic channel so i will just ask this here:

anyone know how to disable the ukraine flag emoji on a discord server? im getting tired of seeing this political shit all over the place

🚮

[fallen glade]

I don't think you can stop people using emojis, I've never seen anything political here, only people helping each other

[spark steppe]

from all the places this is the wrongest to ask this

my advice: pick your discord servers wisely 😄

[marsh sedge]

Hi, I was wondering if anybody could explain why my character doesn't rotate copying the code from the unreal documentation on top down character movement:

they seem to be able to have a character rotate and move with this, but my character doesn rotate, I added additional blueprint to have them rotate, but now when they finish the movement, they snap back to their default rotation

[versed sun]

I have a Parent class , and many children.
I bind a few events to a custom event on the Parent, but don't need/use them on most of the children.
If I want to use the bound custom event, I Call it and add code after

What can an interface do that a Parent/Child cannot ?

anything special ?

[spark steppe]

it can exist while not existing

and you dont have to fully implement it for every class

[versed sun]

ok

[spark steppe]

i think his case is exactly the opposite

the parent uses things which some childs dont

?

maybe you should rather do that special case in a child then

[versed sun]

its empty on parent, if a child uses it , I add code

yes, Basic question is, does an event with nothing in it cost anything ?

so, if I have 100 actors that DON'T use the event , and 5 that do, I should remove that event from the parent and add it just to the 5

ok

learning C++ is on my to-do list, hoping to make some income with blueprint projects first

[desert juniper]

here's a cool perspective I like to use

[versed sun]

unit ?

[desert juniper]

Top is control
Bottom is 500 line traces on tick

you should only worry about performance when it becomes a problem

[spark steppe]

weird test case

and more weird to take a conclusion from that

[desert juniper]

🤷‍♂️ they're concerned with performance of a single event not being used. here we're showing that tick called to perform a linetrace 500 times/tick has almost no performance hit

[spark steppe]

yea, in a scene with like 10 collision primitives 😄

[desert juniper]

let me try a more complex scene.

my theory is nothing's gonna change

[versed sun]

3k child actors all doing something at same time, but not on tick

[desert juniper]

Control

500 line traces on tick

[spark steppe]

hah

[desert juniper]

in a fairly complex scene

[spark steppe]

more fps, so yall better do as many line traces as possible

so from 12ms to 17ms game thread time

which is almost an 50% increase

[desert juniper]

you got a point there.

[spark steppe]

yea capturing a single moment isn't cutting it

the graph could tell more, if you had it for both, scaled to the same values

[versed sun]

stat unitgraph

[spark steppe]

or maybe allow toggling it on and off, and enable the line traces for half the graph time

[desert juniper]

lower left shows the graph 😄

[desert juniper]

yup there it is

[spark steppe]

too bad we cant see the game thread there?!

nvm

it hides behind the frame time

[desert juniper]

yeah, just hiding there

[spark steppe]

yea, its not 50%, but it still has an noticeable impact

[desert juniper]

unreal did a cool demo a while back where they were able to get thousands of traces without a performance hit, but can't find that video now

[spark steppe]

was it an empty level? 😄

also it depends on what you trace for

[desert juniper]

it was lol, but they had something like 25k traces

[spark steppe]

e.g. if you trace on a specific channel with only a few objects on it, it is obviously cheaper

[desert juniper]

very very true

[versed sun]

I Don't see a performance hit between this and empty code

[desert juniper]

and you never will

[versed sun]

cool, that solves that, starting question was:
Does an event with nothing after it cost anything ?

[desert juniper]

something yes

but so miniscule it doesn't matter

[versed sun]

nothing much tho

[desert juniper]

the only ones that don't are the ones that are semi grayed out

like beginplay and tick before you do anything with them

[versed sun]

yup

[desert juniper]

IIRC those have no overhead.

[spark steppe]

keep in mind that the code from the parent will execute on all childs, too

unless you override the event in each child

[versed sun]

yes

[drifting steeple]

hi guys can anyone tell me how I can trigger an event by pressing multible keys at once like shift and sprint for slide etc?

[warm glacier]

I do not understand how to configure the physics asset. Why the sled is not touching the ground?

[fickle dune]

Hello I'm trying to access my shop using the Interact Interfact that I have, it was created using Ryan Laleys new inventory system for UE5
Basically I used to just walk on my trigger box and open up the shop UI but I want to be on the Trigger box then press E so I can open my ShopUI to avoid overlap issues of the shop opening upon exiting the shop.

My question is how do I do that? I can't seem to get it done

[spark steppe]

why do you use a skeletal mesh in the first place?

[fickle dune]

I'm sure I'm missing something simple

[warm glacier]

I want it to be a pawn. and I want the character to possess the pawn. And I thought of snapping the character to a socket on the sled.
You have another idea?

[spark steppe]

all of this also works with a static mesh

you only want a skeletal mesh if it has moving parts

[warm glacier]

attach actor to actor doesn't work with a static mesh

[spark steppe]

neither with skeletal mesh

[warm glacier]

then how?

lol

[hybrid horizon]

Attach to component

[spark steppe]

attach actor to component^

[warm glacier]

and what component?

[spark steppe]

the static mesh component

[warm glacier]

and I just simply add a relative transform on the forward axis so the character can stand behind?

[spark steppe]

you create a socket in the static mesh "editor"

and that name you can use in the attach actor to component call

it works pretty much exactly like with the skeletal mesh

[warm glacier]

oh damn ...

using this?

[hybrid horizon]

yep

[warm glacier]

🥴

thanks

[astral mural]

Can I just 🤮 at my code real quick? I don't know what I was drinking, or what that execution wire was drinking.

[fading raptor]

For some reason, my landscape material wont save when I do edits to the material itsself. I want to change it to masked and add a landscape visibility node so i can edit the visibility, but whenever I save, it fails to save
Any help would be greatly appreicated

[limber parcel]

other discords are full of ukraine flag cancer, they litter every post with it

so i guess we actually have to make a bot that removes them, and maybe even puts people on timeout

like if we post a model in showcase, nobody wants to see a shitty ukraine flag on it lol

same for russian or any other flags

[wheat aurora]

POV: you got offended/angry by an emoji

[marsh sedge]

🇺🇦

[limber parcel]

we just dont need any political hype stuff in our community

🇦🇹

my country flag resembles a stop sign lol

[wheat aurora]

I don't see the Ukraine posts often anymore, I rarely see it

[limber parcel]

depends on the server i guess

[wheat aurora]

Maybe your server is full of Ukrainians

[spark steppe]

now you brought that convo here, for what?

[limber parcel]

i dont want to ban all ukraine supporters so i would rather just disable that emojis

[wheat aurora]

Do that and you gonna lose your community

[limber parcel]

i dont really care tbh, someone who has nothing better to say than posting ukraine flags isnt exactly credit to the community

[wheat aurora]

Also, #lounge is as close as offtopic you can get, not #blueprint

[limber parcel]

but yeah i just wanted to know if there is an easy way to disable them, sorry for the offtopic i couldnt find a correct channel

[zealous moth]

@spark steppe
So if I use the ball BP, works fine
Ball inside character BP, slides
Ball spawned by character BP and possessed, works fine.

I disabled the movement comp. No effect.
I disabled collision with capsule. No effect.
I disabled mesh collision. No effect.
I have no idea what is causing this...

@spark steppe oh! My! God!
Begin playing scale 0 bug....

Physics applied are inconsistent

Starting scale must be non 0

[spark steppe]

https://tenor.com/view/family-guy-woah-hold-up-wait-gif-5693923

so if physics mesh is scale 0 on begin play it bugs out?

[pulsar path]

Nvm i found a better way to do interactable detection that returns the value i need as well
is there a way to change the output pin of 'get overlapping actors' to have the same type as the one its searching for? i need my array (Overlapping Interactables Array) to be an array of Interactable Object Reference but the get overlapping actors returns Actor Object Reference Array which i cant append to a Interactable Object Reference Array

[zealous moth]

@spark steppe yup. And I knew this. You must use near zero values. Physics uses coefficients so when you scale 0 you are way too near 0 and your physics are messed when you scale out

[junior hedge]

why wont this work

no errors just refuses to play animation

[zealous moth]

@junior hedge what is the timeline looking like?

[junior hedge]

(0,0) (3,1)

[zealous moth]

Show me

[junior hedge]

@zealous moth

[zealous moth]

@junior hedge change length to 3

Top right corner

Top left

I mean

[junior hedge]

so (0,0) (3,3)?

[zealous moth]

No the length

Top left corner

[zealous moth]

It is set to 5 now

I don't get your lerp

What are you doing?

[junior hedge]

I changed it to 3

[junior hedge]

im just making an animation that slides a door downwards

the timeline is saying it's paused

could that be the reason?

[zealous moth]

What is the initial vector?

[junior hedge]

before it starts the animation?

159.465613 254.878637 332.826019

I know the issue I think

ok it works with autoplay but the script wont execute

normally

i think its my bind

idk why this isnt working though

(Action Mapping)

yeah my binds wont work idk why

i changed to J, U, even tried making a new bind

my old ones work tho so idk

[faint pasture]

Dude made the gamedev equivelent of a black hole.

[junior hedge]

binds that are X out won't work and idk why

if anyone was wondering you need this

is there a node to stop all timelines?

nvm

[wraith eagle]

anyone got a few min to help a noob, Im stuck

[tawdry surge]

Just ask your question. If someone knows they'll chime in

[wraith eagle]

Imma send a few screens, this is the normal way to move the camera in game

But Im making a game where you cant move camera normally, but I want it to be possible at some locations

here I made a new camera for this area

but I also want to enable camera movement here

everything is in third person blueprint btw

[tawdry surge]

Easy fix is to use a bool and branch to only allow the input to reach the add controller yaw if it's active

[quaint geyser]

I wouldn’t run that in eventtick

[tawdry surge]

The axis input event is already running every frame also, so you could leverage that instead of having a tick too

[quaint geyser]

Just set a boolean to false in certain areas and create a branch with that boolean in inputaxis turn

[wraith eagle]

gimme a sec

[quaint geyser]

Using an actor overlap event in that area

[wraith eagle]

inputaxis event must be in thirdperson blueprint?

Am I suppose to be able to connect these somehow?

This is just giving me errors

Blueprint Runtime Error: "Accessed None trying to read property CallFunc_Array_Get_Item_1". Node: Branch Graph: EventGraph Function: Execute Ubergraph BP Third Person Character Blueprint: BP_ThirdPersonCharacter

I understand you guys dont have time, sorry 😦 Im noob

[hallow night]

What are you even trying to achieve

[wraith eagle]

When I enter a room, I want to be able to move the camera with my mouse

lite you normally can, in a third person game template

but only inside, not outsie

[hallow night]

Just have a boolean variable that changes to true when the player enters the room using an overlap box or something

[odd creek]

Hi does anyone know how do I get the foliage instance of the grid where my character is currently standing? (I am using world partition)

[wraith eagle]

Whyyyy dont this fuucking work :((((

[faint pasture]

Then build that camera control functionality into your pawn, with a simple ChangeCameraMode event that you can call. Once that's working, just detect entering of a room and trigger the camera style change.

Break things down into logical parts.

[faint pasture]

What actor are you doing that on?

Show the error. It tells you what's the problem.

[wraith eagle]

I dont even remember, I tried everything

[blissful grail]

How can I make my character's up vector always point towards another actor? I've tried using Find Look At Rotation, Make Rot from Z, Make Rot from Y, Make Rot from XZ some googling and all that.

Scenario is - I'm trying to have my character's head point towards a grapple point. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. This beautiful illustration is what I want. But depending on the angle, sometimes, it will do it completely upside down. Like, if I attach to the Grapple Point from the side, the character ends up completely upside down, when it should be the other direction.

[hybrid horizon]

You will NEVER get a true from "Camerakebab". Your "for each loop with break" is effectively doing absolutely nothing

[naive stag]

How can I optimise this so that I wouldnt have to check for every chunk

[trim matrix]

what is the usecase of this node?

[mental trellis]

It's for teaching you how to take screenshots without using a phone camera

[slender sky]

You can play normal animation in a slot, without using a montage

Seen this happening more than once, does nobody use the printscreen button anymore?

[mental trellis]

Shift+Windows+S is the best way.

[hybrid horizon]

A for each loop is going to check every index in the array regardless. If you are looking for the first index in that array that meets a certain criteria, you need a for each loop with break. Once the criteria is met, add your variables or whatever needs to be done with met criteria and feed a line back into the "Break" input on the loop and that stops it from searching the rest of the array. Something like this.

If you know the specific index you need, you can forgo the loops and just use a "get" node on the array and tell it what index to get.

[junior hedge]

how to break away from your in game camera

[zealous moth]

did you see my explanation pn physics earlier?

[naive stag]

Isn’t that for windows 11 only? Or windows 10 had that keybind all this time…

[white elbow]

How do I organise my variables into different "folders"? I have like 30 already and it's becoming a concern

[faint badge]

You can assign them a category in the details panel for the variable. Variables in the same category will be grouped together and can be minimized. You need to type the category name the first time to create it but then afterwards you can find it in a dropdown list.

If you want subcategories you can use the | symbol, for example Character|Input would make a category called Character with a subcategory called Input within it:

[white elbow]

Thanks!

[junior hedge]

cant call event

both actor bps

[icy dragon]

Windows 10 since around Creators Update has it all the time

It's basically Windows's new Snipping Tool, but you don't have to have it open all the time and just works.

[mental trellis]

No?

[mental trellis]

I use it all the time in 10...

[zealous moth]

@mental trellis if you begin play and your mesh is at scale 0 all physics get messed up if you scale back to 1 later

[junior hedge]

anyone know?

[tawdry surge]

Your cast is probably failing.
What BP are you inside and what's it's relationship with L_Door?

[junior hedge]

L_door is an actor blueprint, I am inside the playercharacter

[tawdry surge]

Casting is changing the level of classification of a variable. The player character is also an object, actor, and pawn. varying information applies to each of these classifications.

[hybrid horizon]

Print strings are your friend when trying to troubleshoot.

[tawdry surge]

What you're doing is never going to work

[junior hedge]

already did that, everything else works except for the event

[tawdry surge]

You are asking is the parent actor of the player an L_Door

The answer is no, so cast failed

[junior hedge]

what should I get then

[hybrid horizon]

Well if you had print strings on the cast failed you'd know that's why its not firing the event

[junior hedge]

I know that already

I said thats the only part of the script that is wrong

[tawdry surge]

You need a reference to the door to call one of its functions

How best to get that depends on what you are doing

[junior hedge]

I dont know what to reference

[hybrid horizon]

Then why ask why the event isn't firing if you already knew the cast failed?

[tawdry surge]

The door you want to shut

[junior hedge]

I only sent a snippet of the event anyways

idk what i can get

[livid marlin]

how to add self object reference to array

[faint pasture]

Just add it. Have an array of the same type as whatever self is, or a parent class of self, and add it.

[livid marlin]

if i add it it becomes integer

and i need to make an array again right

[faint pasture]

Are you only ever gonna ignore self or potentially others?

[faint pasture]

No it doesn't.

[livid marlin]

the one in array and self

like this then i need to plug it to the array in linetrace but how

[livid marlin]

thx

[faint pasture]

Depends on what you're trying to do. What else is meant to be inside of Actors To Ignore?

[livid marlin]

the self and the on in array alr

[faint pasture]

Which one is that? In plain english, what should be ignored by your trace?

"I want to ignore self and allies" or "I want to ignore self and children" or whatever

[junior hedge]

so is there nothing I can grab to cast?

[faint pasture]

What are you trying to do

you can cast anything to anything, but it sounds like you don't know what casting does

[junior hedge]

I know what casting does

I just dont know what to grab from L_Door

I dont need an explanation

[faint pasture]

You need to get at the door in some way

line trace, saved ref, get actor of class, however you want

You only need to cast if you only have an actor and you want to CHECK if it's the door

if you KNOW it's the door, you can just do door stuff to it.

What are you trying to do, shut whatever door is in front of the player or shut a specific door no matter the situation or what?

[junior hedge]

the script I am doing just plays a timeline animation

and the script thats connected to the cast is a mouse hitscan

[faint pasture]

OK so the hitscan will return an actor. THat's the one you cast to your door class to see if it's a door

break the hit result

[junior hedge]

so I need to cast the button im hitscanning aswell?

[faint pasture]

No, that's not what casting is.
You do the line trace. The line trace returns a hit result. The hit result contains the actor that was hit. You cast THAT reference to your door (to check if it's a door), and then do the door specific stuff.

Is your trace hitting a button or a door? Is the button meant to control the door?

[junior hedge]

the button is meant to control the door

[faint pasture]

Are they seperate actors or one actor with a button and door inside it?

[junior hedge]

seperate actors

[faint pasture]

K so the button should have some ref to the door it is hooked up to. The flow would go like this
Line trace -> Cast hit actor to Button -> call event

and then in the button

Event -> get MyDoor -> open door

The button would have a door actor variable MyDoor, which you would set when you place the button in the level or whatever.

[junior hedge]

like this?

[faint pasture]

You should have MyDoor be of type DoorActor, not just Actor, but that'd work too

Then you wouldn't have to do any casting

It depends on what your plans are. If you plan on having buttons be able to activate lots of things you'll want to look into interfaces but I'd get this working first.

[junior hedge]

this?

didnt work

[junior hedge]

@faint pasture

[hybrid horizon]

Just setting a variable to a specific type is not all you have you to do. Even though that variable is "L_Door", it still needs to know what "L_Door" instance to reference.
You can use your hit result to set the MyDoor variable to the hit actor if it is the correct actor

[junior hedge]

I've already modified it

[hybrid horizon]

Does it work?

[junior hedge]

I did it a different way

I made a function in player character and called it from the door

[junior hedge]

is there a way I can make 2 different input events? (same keybind)

[hybrid horizon]

You talking about adding to the input section of the project settings/enhanced input? Or using 1 key to trigger 2 different events?

[junior hedge]

1 key to trigger 2 events from different scripts

by key I mean mouse click

[hybrid horizon]

Unless I'm misunderstanding you, you would just need to create a check to make sure the correct event is fired if the conditions of your check are met

[junior hedge]

script 1:

script 2:

only script 2 will execute

@hybrid horizon

[hybrid horizon]

Use a sequence

and 1 input

[elfin wolf]

you have to use the enable input node on the object if it's not a player

[junior hedge]

they're in different scripts

[junior hedge]

already added

[hybrid horizon]

different bp's you mean?

[junior hedge]

if I remove script 2 then script 1 works

[junior hedge]

yes

[elfin wolf]

click on both the input action nodes and turn off consume input

[hybrid horizon]

Ok, then click the input node and there are some options on it for allowing the same key to be used more than once. Its been awhile since I've used the normal inputs but it's something like allow use in children or something along those lines

Thats it^^ what paranoid said

[junior hedge]

that worked thx

both of you

[swift hornet]

I'm following this tutorial series for holding multiple guns. Particularly I'm working on equipping and unequipping different types of guns (rifles, hand guns): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_ss4Cnyb5I&list=PLl5i300DoPxeHtoK45l1MxEy-15ZseSyT&index=6

Right now, I'm getting an infinite loop error for my pistol holster. I think it has something to do with the way the YouTuber is coding the pistol holster slots.

By holster slots, I'm talking about the sockets I added to my character.

[swift hornet]

Also, how could I rescale my gun meshes without changing the scale of the sockets?

[faint pasture]

When you place the door and button in the level, set MyDoor

make it public and exposed on spawn

[junior hedge]

I'll look into it tmr

[swift hornet]

Karan fixes the infinite loop issue in the Part 4 video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_ss4Cnyb5I&list=PLl5i300DoPxeHtoK45l1MxEy-15ZseSyT&index=6

[prisma snow]

Hi, I am working on a game but I have a problem with the camera, how can fix this problem? I want to have a smooth and nice camera like battlefront 2 heroes vs villains

[swift hornet]

For the scaling, the guns look fine until I pick them up in game.

[prisma snow]

is there any fast way to fix it ? since it is just for a demo showcase, do I need to work on all objects collision channels in the environment as well?

[swift hornet]

I tried setting the world scale for each weapon in BluePrints but the gun still changes size when I attach it to the player.

Should I use "Attach To" instead of World Scale 3D? The "Attach Weapon to Player" is a custom function.

I tried both snap to target and "world scale" but it doesn't affect my guns.

[spark steppe]

is there any persistent unique ID for actors?

actor guid is editor only?! 😭

[mental trellis]

Persistent between what?

[spark steppe]

i guess editor only works for me, but apparently i cant really use the GUID without c++

i went with an random int64 for now as unique id :>

fingers crossed that it will be random enough for the amount of use cases it has 😄

[midnight wedge]

So I have a pretty standard aim setup that when triggered toggles between a free circle cam and aiming, but I when aiming is toggled the characters rotation instantly snaps. What would be the best way to smooth out this rotation? I have a rotation lerp system already that I use for smoothing out dodgerolls, but the best I can do is get it to lerp to the value fed in at the start which if the camera is moved during the lerp time a hitch still occurs

My first thought is to somehow use a float to create a weight influence between the two modes (0 means that rotation is only influenced by movement, 1 means that rotation is only influenced by camera, making .5 a 50/50 average between the two for z rotation as I could just plug that into the same alpha output I use for smooth camera zoom in)

(I also just realized I set the target arm length in the bp above which was redundant given my use of a timeline, so ive already fixed that)

TLDR is there a way I can use these bools as two ends of a scale from 0 to 1

[midnight wedge]

Ok I figured it out and this is what I have

All I did here was clean up the error from earlier and remove the use control rotation setup from aiming as it is controlled by the timeline. The reason I check the alpha value and use that to enable controller rotation yaw is that it makes the transition between modes seamless, while you get a bit of a camera hitch if you check on finish while in slomo (Apologies for posting all this I'm admittedly proud of this solution and want to share)

Missed and error and fixed it with this. Still a little hitch in slomo so theres still improvements to be made

[odd creek]

Hi,
I am currently playing around with instanced foliage in combination with world partition.
The first issue I had was to find a way how to get the foliage instance from the current position of my character.
I found a way going through all foliage instances of the world partition and picking the one which is has the closest distance to my character position.

But I have found another issue which maybe some of you can help me with.
I want to spawn a instanced foliage on the position of my character via blueprint.
The issue is to use AddInstance I need the HierachicalInstancedStaticMeshComp from my foliage type so I can add another foliage of the type to.
In case of using World partition there is no HierachicalInstancedStaticMeshComp in case there are no foliage placed in the grid with the editor.
Means I can only add foliage if there is already a foliage in the grid placed with editor.
Does anyone know how I can add a HierachicalInstancedStaticMeshComp on my own or maybe some other idea what I can do?

[slim grove]

when i added a camera to my player i cant look up or down anymore and without the camera it clips through the mesh is there a way to fix this in the BP or is it an unrelated issue.

[tawdry surge]

They have a course on unrealengine.com in the learning section on making a character from scratch. It covers how the camera and controller work together as well

[slim grove]

im just asking for a simple soulution and i cant find what your saying is there

[tawdry surge]

https://dev.epicgames.com/community/learning/courses/kry/build-a-third-person-character-from-scratch/mDv/build-a-third-person-character-from-scratch-introduction

[slim grove]

its first person so this wouldnt work

[tawdry surge]

Thats almost entirely irrelevant

[slim grove]

ok

[tawdry surge]

Your only difference is gonna be final placement and weather you have the pawn rotate with it

[wicked osprey]

Guys, I've never asked a question, but I would like to understand what is the difference between the visibility trace and the camera channel?

[tawdry surge]

They are different types of traces.
You can set them to be ignored, overlapped, or blocked
You can also make your own custom channels

Its just a way for you to organize what things are relevant to a particular trace

[slim grove]

ok i got the camera to look up and down but when i move left/right/backwards it all shakes violantly

[hybrid latch]

Can someone please explain to me why this is not working? I have checked that the owner is the actual player

I can still see the damn thing 😅

[solar sequoia]

Is "self" the player character or the controller?

Actually, I know it's your character. The one who does the "seeing" is the player controller, meaning they need to be the owner of that actor

[hybrid latch]

Character

[solar sequoia]

Yeah, so the "player character" shouldn't be considered the player. That's the purpose of a player controller

That's to say that the controller is the one who actually possesses the pawn and sees through the camera. You need a reference to the controller to make it the owner

[hybrid latch]

Okey will correct it and try again. Thx for the input 🙂

[solar sequoia]

On that mesh you can set it to "Owner No See" before runtime btw

[gentle urchin]

If not you can always track the used numbers in some container and check for it :p

[spark steppe]

i should make a subsystem for that 😛

[bold phoenix]

Hi ! For a character inventory, is it better to create multiple blueprint, or one blueprint and change the skeletal mesh/default values on construct ?

[tawdry surge]

Your inventory has a skeleton?

[bold phoenix]

no sorry

I'm selecting a character in the inventory

Let me explain it better :

So I have an inventory and the player can select a character to place it in the level

But when selecting the character, is it better to obtain a 'actor class reference' or a 'skeletal mesh' + default variables values

[tawdry surge]

Ok the placed characters do not have to be different classes
It depends on how different there overall logic and behaviors are

[bold phoenix]

No it doesn't need to

Just the animations, default variables, skeletal mesh are changing

[tawdry surge]

If they are essentially gonna do the same stuff then I'd just have an enum or something to determine in the construction script which sk mesh, animation BP, and default values to use on spawn

[bold phoenix]

Yea I'm using a structure right now

Thank you !

[limber parcel]

why are all the tutorials out there keep using casting? isnt it much smarter to add a component or interface?

are they just eejits or did that stuff not exist in UE4?

or is there actually something behind it?

[spark steppe]

because 90% of tutorials are made by noobs or are for the sake of the tutorial simplified

[limber parcel]

our code is littered with castings which doesnt only make systems incompatible with eachother but also costs alot more resources

because other team members actually adopt that shit

[thin panther]

It really depends what you are doing to be honest

In some places casting is relevant

[limber parcel]

yeah like here

but my friend made interaction system that literally casts everything to some base class instead of just using actor

[spark steppe]

yea thats shit on the first function call

and can't get any better from there

[thin panther]

Oh yeah interaction is better suited to an interface or even a component, but im just saying casting isnt always bad

[limber parcel]

yeah sometimes u cant avoid it, but in general its really bad practice

[solar sequoia]

How did I never know about "Find nearest Actor"? I could've used that half a dozen times by now but I've done some janky line traces instead

[limber parcel]

https://tenor.com/view/пиздец-даблдор-harry-potter-dumbledore-albus-dumbledore-gif-16981534

[spark steppe]

yea but dont use it like that....

[limber parcel]

what would be a better way to make this?

[spark steppe]

https://docs.unrealengine.com/5.0/en-US/BlueprintAPI/Collision/SphereOverlapActors/

[limber parcel]

good thinking

[solar sequoia]

Limiting the scope at all is always better, yeah

[faint pasture]

That cast is redundant there. You already know it's a patrol point actor

[limber parcel]

it outputs an actor though

weird but ok

[faint pasture]

Oh yeah, I didn't notice that. So you get an array of patrol points, then go back down to actor lol

[limber parcel]

guess it saves u some casting in other cases

so yeah thats one of the rare cases that i found where u actually need casting

[faint pasture]

You need it in a lot of places, just not all of them

[tawdry surge]

If you made it just change the return value. If you are taking in a patrol points array, then I don't see a benefit to dropping down to actor ref

[remote meteor]

i dont like how pure node with multiple output in bp would get called multiple times if you lined off multiple of them, give me an unpure version of it 😥

[faint pasture]

I've seen some dumb shit like
Get MyCustomActor -> cast to MyCustom Actor

[faint pasture]

Or just cache the results

[remote meteor]

like in the case above

it would been called twice

since you linked off both distance and return value

the function gets executed all over again when the value is taken

[faint pasture]

I'm not 100% sure it does. If you saved both outputs to variables, would it still run twice?

[remote meteor]

yeah

i checked it with frontend

it does get called twice

[faint pasture]

I'd think it'd be called per usage of the main return value but idk, BP can get weird

[remote meteor]

the function i tested was this https://docs.unrealengine.com/4.26/en-US/BlueprintAPI/Game/Player/GetHitResultUnderCursorbyChannel/

[broken night]

Anyone has an idea why my Axis Value is ALWAYS equal to 0? The binding in the project settings is correct, and I'm able to move my camera. It's only this part which doesn't work for some reason

[remote meteor]

luckily the return value is exactly the same within the hit result -> blockinghit, so i went and use that instead

[faint pasture]

I mean the BP node might execute twice but not actually trace twice, there might be some caching somewhere.

[faint pasture]

You're saying it all works, just not the debugging?

[remote meteor]

possibly, no idea how to check that though, frontend did mention multiple calling so i changed them 😅

[faint pasture]

For testing, maybe make a pure bp function that generates a random and sends it to both outputs. Then call it and print them. If it's different it got called twice.

[broken night]

Sorry, that's not what I mean. I'm using BP_FirstPersonCharacter as my playercontroller, and I'm trying to make a replicated grabbable door. I need to lock the cam/movement while grabbing, which works, and now I need to pass the angle of my actual X axis so the door can move. I'm unable to get a working Axis Value in here

[faint pasture]

Character isn't a playercontroller

[broken night]

Does this means that it's normal that I can't get Axis Value when calling the event from BP_FirstPlayerController?

And if so, why does this works?

[tawdry surge]

You need to put a player pawn reference in the target pin

[broken night]

What do you mean?

[remote meteor]

yups, i even tried using the same randomfloat node, same thing

[tawdry surge]

Nvm. Misread your question.
Is your axis event called anywhere else?

[broken night]

No, it's the only place it's called on this BP

[tawdry surge]

What does the binding look like in project settings?

[desert relic]

why does my animation bp stop working when i add a state

[broken night]

It looks like this, nothing special

[spark steppe]

idk

[tawdry surge]

Hmm
Looks ok to me

[broken night]

Would it be this?

Well no it's not possible as it still doesn't work when removed

[tawdry surge]

I mean disabling input would stop it from receiving the axis value

[broken night]

Well even without this the axis is still 0

[tawdry surge]

Are you disabling input to the player anywhere else?

[broken night]

No, that's the only place

But I'm just disabling Look input

I'm enabling input back right after

[tawdry surge]

Try it without that

[remote meteor]

can it be this? 😆

[broken night]

without the two last blocks?

Still nothing, and even with the "Overrider parent binding" which makes sense as I have not override anything :p

[solar sequoia]

Is this in the controller or the pawn?

I could imagine that the controller would be consuming the input before the character gets it in some cases

[tawdry surge]

Only if the axis event is called on both

[solar sequoia]

That's what I was going to ask about next

[broken night]

I just tried it in another BP and it's not working either. I also tried the Get LookRight accessor and it returns 0 too, value never changes

[tawdry surge]

Try with a different controller class

[limber parcel]

i have set up a key to play a sound but for some reason the sound isnt playing, any ideas?

the sound works when i call it from this

[tawdry surge]

You know play sound isn't connected

[limber parcel]

i added breakpoint but it doesnt seems to trigger the input action

[limber parcel]

second screenshot doesnt matter

[tawdry surge]

Ok

[limber parcel]

i have set the distract action to C key, it just doesnt seem to actually trigger

maybe its conflicting with something else

ok yeah changing the key worked

[broken night]

What would that change? 🤔

[tawdry surge]

It was probably used by another input and consumed

[tawdry surge]

If you mean what would using a blank controller class change. It's just process of elimination. Switch out everything one by one to pin point what is causing the issue and then you can focus on figuring out why it's causing the problem

[drowsy pumice]

What was that MoveTo-equivalent node that has an 'on arrival' execution pin?

[tawdry surge]

AiMoveTo?

[drowsy pumice]

Ah yes, that was it

Thank you

[summer jetty]

Not sure how to phrase this question, but my textboxes are 'jumping' into where they should be positioned after my menu widget is already loaded/visible. I thought it was just my slow pc, but realised it's an issue with the game itself. What causes this and is there a way to stop it happening? Or does anyone know what I'm referring to so at least I can know what to search for on Google? I haven't been able to find anything so far.

[solar sequoia]

Can you upload a recording?

[serene pike]

How do I get a single instance of a blueprint I've used multiple times as done in this image?

[solar sequoia]

When it's in the level you can select it, open the level BP, and in the right click menu it should appear

[hybrid latch]

Did not work for some reason. Got referance to player controller, and set that to owner. Mesh is still rendered

[solar sequoia]

Send another screenshot please

[solar sequoia]

How about when you spawn it without attaching? You'll probably need to put it near the player character atm to be able to test that

[hybrid latch]

Can try that

I have also tried the no see in the actual BP of the spawned part

[solar sequoia]

It's definitely redundant to set it at runtime, then

[hybrid latch]

Cannot spawn actors in constructionscript and set no see there

All other mesh that is predefined the no see works fine and are set in constructionscript

[solar sequoia]

Are they actors that you're attaching to the character, though?

It's likely that the issue relates to ownership rather than "owner no see" not working

[hybrid latch]

Yes, NVG ref is an actor that is attached to the chars helmet mount. I have double checked ownership with printstring, and from what I can tell, no issues there

Tried no see before attaching. No difference

[solar sequoia]

Dumb question, but you're referencing the correct mesh, right?

[hybrid latch]

For sure

[solar sequoia]

I can hardly guess what the issue would be in this case

[wraith eagle]

Guys, can you see a reson why I cant move this arrow?...

Im crying

[solar sequoia]

I think that's an arrow component like they use on the template characters. AFAIK it anchors to the scene root and always points +x, as that's its main purpose. Never used it, so I may be incorrect

[hybrid latch]

Also checked the mesh with printstring. Is correct

[wraith eagle]

hmm, got it to work like 5 min ago

[solar sequoia]

On the other actors that it works for, I'd say to look for literally anything that's different between them

[hybrid latch]

Thing that is different is that they are components added in the BP manually and not spawned in

But I`ll search some more and see if there is something that I am not seeing atm 🙂

[solar sequoia]

I can't remember if I ever got owned actors to work like you're doing but I was having issues with it a while back

That was different, however, because it was a widget component in screen space

[serene pike]

If I push a button and a door in the same blueprint moves down in response, does it not move down the door's collision too?

[spark steppe]

depends on your collision setup

show the blueprint hierarchy

[modern mountain]

hi all, I'm trying to create a circle of line traces (for now) around a point defined in front of the player. Having issues figuring out how I can generate the axis for the 'Rotate Vector Around Axis' block as it will always be different.

tldr need a way to get the axis between 2 vectors or help rethinking this approach

[spark steppe]

why do you do that? @modern mountain

[solar sequoia]

My first thought would be, why not do a sphere trace or something similar?

[trim matrix]

My ball when bouncing off of something is calling the "onhit" event more than once on contact. is there any way I can only make it call once? no matter the angles I try it seems to call the event more than once.

[marsh sedge]

If I have two blueprint objects with variable "Health Value" and want to call those in another blueprint, how do I refer to that variable? Whenever i refer to that variable I get a specific variable reference to just one of the two blueprint object classes, Ex: get Healthvalue from class Cake_BP

[modern mountain]

Trying to essentially get a '2d' circle of points against a surface, but having it as points means some can miss the surface or hit other surfaces further back. This is what I get when setting a defined axis, but trying to get it dynamic to where the player is looking

[solar sequoia]

I already saw it, didn't respond because I don't really know. Can your specific use case not be filled through another method, like a sphere trace or maybe an inrange?

[modern mountain]

Sphere trace doesn't provide multiple points, but might look at the inrange route. Potentially just going the wrong way with it. Appreciate the thoughts 🙂

[solar sequoia]

It sounds like, if anything, you'd want to get the forward vector from multiple different rotators and multiply the vectors and translate them to the starting position

[marsh sedge]

can add a small delay to whatever is on the reading of the onhit, or whatever is delaying it

[robust edge]

I'm currently trying to make a laser maze inspired game but the lasers only render for a frame

[solar sequoia]

Context clues lead me to believe that you're not using a mesh for the lasers. What are they?

[robust edge]

raycasts im rendering them using line trace

[solar sequoia]

Like a line trace debug?

[robust edge]

line trace

[solar sequoia]

Couple things. 1. Your duration is set to a single frame 2. I'm like 90% sure that the debug line is editor-only

Or dev-only maybe, but you can't ship with it

[robust edge]

yea I'm just using it before I use a niagra particle

[solar sequoia]

Fair enough. There's an enum on the line trace node that lets you set the draw type. None, single frame, duration, persistent

[robust edge]

oh that worked I have know Idea how I didn't think that

[dapper marsh]

I'm following a tutorial on how to tell some units to move to the mouse position on screen, but they always get [0,0,0] as destination from the "get cursor position by channel" node. Ground collision is set to block all, and the trace is using a custom channel. How do I make them go to the trace hit location against the ground instead of the coordinate origin?
Also this is the tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRW-xNArxlQ&list=PL4G2bSPE_8ul0VWqaxhv7gm2oXTVFC3as&index=7

https://blueprintue.com/blueprint/54e3fp5j/

[sour tundra]

is there a node to restart the game as if it was just opened?

[marsh sedge]

So I tried to solve this making a parent BP class, and then making all consumables children of that class, with different values for "Health Value", but I don't know how to retrieve the currently held items health value. when, I just keep getting the parent health value

[solar sequoia]

You need to drag off of the cast node's output pin to actually use the reference. Casting is meant to take an input object and give you an output object of class if it inherits

[marsh sedge]

I understand that its just disconnected right now, but if I connect it, it just gets the Consumbale_BP Health Value, instead of the child Soda_BP health value

[teal gull]

its casting to consumable

[solar sequoia]

Are you sure you're getting the correct object? Referencing the variable stored on the parent does work

[marsh sedge]

but I dont want to cast to the child Soda_BP because I want it to be able to take any child of Consumable_BP's health value

[solar sequoia]

You also might have made a health variable in both the parent and child. That would be redundant

[solar sequoia]

Object != object reference in this case

Casting an object doesn't change what it is; it changes what the engine interprets it as. Casting contextualizes a generic reference to make it usable in a specific context

[marsh sedge]

So how can I generically retrieve a variable from different objects of the same parent class?

[solar sequoia]

Either one can reference the variables they inherit from their parent

[smoky rivet]

hi, trying to make a voxel world that generates similar to minecraft.

For some reason, whenever i walk right or left my test chunks wont generate, but only front and back.

[solar sequoia]

@smoky rivet start by checking your vector math. You're probably only using 2 dimensions in something

[undone stag]

Boys Can I ask for helP?

[solar sequoia]

Just to double check: did you create a variable in both of these BPs?

[marsh sedge]

Yeah I have a variable in both, but if I delete it in the parent then I can't refrence it

I cant make this

[solar sequoia]

Yes, so only use the parent version

[smoky rivet]

im not using z dimension so all vectors regarding z are set to 0.

[marsh sedge]

So how do I get that to have a different health values for different objects

[smoky rivet]

does ue5 have a chunking system?

i tried using open world map but not sure if thats a chunking system or if i should make one myself

cant find documentation on it

[solar sequoia]

They will have different health values because they're different objects. If you mean you want to change them before runtime, you can change the value on a spawned actor, or on the child you can change the default value of the inherited variable

[marsh sedge]

I still don't understand, since I'm using the parent in the call for the variable, its going to use the parent variable. Even though the object im pointing to may have a different variable value

so like held item is a child of consumable BP

[undone stag]

Can someone say me why my actor won't move along sprite

[solar sequoia]

So the parent has its value, and the child inherits it. In the child's blueprint outline page, you can show inherited variables. You can modify the default value from there