blueprint

[solar sequoia]

Little eye icon next to the search bar in "variables" @marsh sedge

[marsh sedge]

Yeah so that what I did, but it takes the parent default value when I call it in my image above

[solar sequoia]

You're calling 2 different variables.

"Health" belongs to whatever BP this is a screenshot of. "Health Value" belongs to the consumable that you cast to

[marsh sedge]

wait, I realised I had to variables in soda BP, im surprised it let me do that

thank you for the help

Im dumb

[solar sequoia]

Yeah np

So just remember that if you're inheriting a variable, you don't need to create it again

[dapper marsh]

Has anything changed about line traces since UE4? I'm following this tutorial https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRW-xNArxlQ&list=PL4G2bSPE_8ul0VWqaxhv7gm2oXTVFC3as&index=7, and units always get the coordinate origin as target location. This is my current blueprint: https://blueprintue.com/blueprint/54e3fp5j/

Key part of the tutorial is arround minute 8

[marsh sedge]

Yeah, so i understand, it like has that 'inherited variable' that cant be removed unless it removed from the parent, and that can be accessed by accessing the class

[solar sequoia]

That's because it's the parent BP's variable, basically. If you intent to inherit a variable you shouldn't make another version of that same variable in the child BP

[marsh sedge]

Yeah Im surprised it let me make a variable of the same name

[solar sequoia]

Technically it's because the way variables work in C++ is that you can more or less say AParentCharacter::Health and AChildCharacter::Health and they're different variables. The child version can be shortened to just "Health" because the beginning part is implied. That variable node that has "Target" at the beginning of it is sort of the long version of the variable name because it's not the BP it belongs to

[unkempt hound]

Question: I'm getting this error in editor and not sure when this started but is there a way to track this down? I've done a project wide search for any vector/float divisions but couldn't locate the source of this issue.

[solar sequoia]

I'm bad about it, but you should basically always use safe divide if the denominator could be zero

[unkempt hound]

Hmm

Thank you!

[solar sequoia]

Np

I know it doesn't help you find your error, but for future reference it's basically the same thing

[unkempt hound]

Will see if it works, just basically do a safe divide on all Vector/Float divides in the project?

there's like 10 so it's not that bad.

[solar sequoia]

There isn't a reason not to use safe divide over regular, so I'd say so

AFAIK it's not even less efficient or anything. All it does is check for denominator = zero and outputs 0 in that case

[unkempt hound]

Hrm, safe divides are Float/float

hnng

[solar sequoia]

Now that you mention it, that may be the case

I think divide by zero isn't an issue in UE? It's a yellow error, I've seen mean that it won't crash

[unkempt hound]

weird syntax shit scares me.

..So, who knows

[solar sequoia]

Ideally you wouldn't have any warnings, but I come from modding minecraft a lot and most packs have like 85 errors every launch

[tawdry surge]

it won't crash, but you should find where it's happening and skip the math if the divisor is 0

[unkempt hound]

yeah having a difficult time locating it.

i went ahead and disconnected all my vector/float divides and it still kept giving the same error 💀

I'm curious if it is one of the C++ functions i have, but it doesn't even give me where the error is happening.

Is there a way to expand the output log to contain more information about error lines?

I'll try to run the engine on debug mode maybe that'll give a clue.

[hidden stump]

I am new to UE, and I was messing with Silent Hill-like camera placement. I was able to switch the view between static camera actors placed on the map, but how would I switch back to this camera (which is the third person camera ofc)?

[unkempt hound]

@hidden stump Player Controller's Set View Target with Blend! https://docs.unrealengine.com/5.0/en-US/BlueprintAPI/Game/Player/SetViewTargetwithBlend/

Nifty node, helps with that type of specific design really well.

Just make sure to plug your Pawn back to the "New View Target" when you want.

[unkempt hound]

i did find a division where my character's Z is calculated and it's 0 most of the time when the character is on the floor level Relatively....

[hidden stump]

Thanks a lot !

[unkempt hound]

Anyway I can help!

[hidden stump]

Ah yeah I was using that thing to switch between the static cameras

my problem was calling the player cam itself

[unkempt hound]

Yeah it takes in Actors. So it will look at the first active camera it finds within the actor you've given it, and since you have one camera on the pawn, and it's the only active one, it should just blend to that once you plug your pawn in to the new view target.

[hidden stump]

Ah fair enough

Thanks, ill try to screw around with it a bit

Nice to see that the community is helpful, very appreciated!

[unkempt hound]

You're very welcome!

[hidden stump]

Ah I figured it out lets go

Aaaand it works perfectly. Thank you so much!

[unkempt hound]

[pine junco]

So I want to get started with learning Blueprints... I understand the logic just fine, my issue is the syntaxis

How can I learn better?

[serene pike]

When I flick my switches, which moves the highlighted bars down, it does move the bars but the collision seems to stay. Is there a way to move the collision too? Someone said it might be the BP hierarchy so I've included it

[versed sun]

https://www.youtube.com/c/MathewWadsteinTutorials/videos for learning how to use most nodes

[pine junco]

Keep this in mind, I know how logic works

I am just, completely and perfectly, unable to understand how the most basic things need to be done in Unreal

Like, I can't make a character controller to save my life

[wide jay]

anyone able to help me fix an issue in this blueprint section? towards the end the material setup i did for blood splatter and wall splatter for some reason its only utilizing the wall hit material and the target being shot at doesnt get affected by damage anymore not sure what im doing wrong with it

[wide jay]

better shot here this is the section im having an issue on

[snow summit]

Anyone ever use brushify and get this error when using levels? I've added a menu to my persistent level via levels (window->levels) and it happens after accessing the menu when playing. Have any ideas how to fix this?

Blueprint Runtime Error: "Accessed None trying to read property CallFunc_GetPlayerCharacter_ReturnValue". Node: Set Vector Parameter Value Graph: EventGraph Function: Execute Ubergraph Natural Roads Blueprint: NaturalRoads
Blueprint Runtime Error: "Accessed None". Node: Set Vector Parameter Value Graph: EventGraph Function: Execute Ubergraph Natural Roads Blueprint: NaturalRoads
Blueprint Runtime Error: "Accessed None trying to read property CallFunc_GetPlayerCharacter_ReturnValue". Node: Branch Graph: EventGraph Function: Execute Ubergraph Natural Roads Blueprint: NaturalRoads

[twilit heath]

your natural roads starts ticking before the character is spawned and possessed

just pull the IsValid ? node from the Character pin and plug it in

[wide jay]

still needing help on this

[solar sequoia]

The neat thing about blueprint is that there kind of isn't syntax to speak of. If you haven't done the Matt Wadstein intro to UE tutorial, you should, as it starts from booting the editor for the first time, and covers a little bit of everything to get you started. I can't recommend enough that you should find a good learning project, like maybe you want to make an fps, so you follow a tutorial on that and just try new things with the concepts you're learning

[pine junco]

What's a learning project for 3RD person? Any type, be it shooter or top down

A good* project sorry

[solar sequoia]

just find something tbh. Most of the popular tutorials are good enough, and if they're not or it's not for you, just find something different ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

For 3rd person, try a TPS tutorial, or maybe one for an rpg. They're really open-ended

I would recommend not learning multiplayer at first though. Some of the concepts are a little counterintuitive, and it might be a little much if you're not confident with BP yet

Do whatever you want, of course, because ultimately I'm just someone who watched a bunch of tutorials, but imo you can get a good start with something like that

[tawdry surge]

If you've never done anything in unreal b4 start super simple and work up. The templates have alot of work done for you already which is great, unless you don't understand it. Thats how people fall into tutorial hell.
Make rock paper scissors or tic tac toe or pong first

[blissful grail]

How can I rotate my actor so that it's local up vector points to a specific vector?

[tawdry surge]

Use up vector and the location of the other actor to get the look at rotation

[blissful grail]

Find Look At Rotation - doesn't seem to work. I've tried it already and doesn't always guarantee the up vector points to the vector

[solar sequoia]

I hear "it's in the player BP" on a daily basis because people get in over their head too soon

[blissful grail]

This is the result with using Find Look At Rotation in some angles. Trying to get the player's up to always point towards the cube (Attached to Actor in the BP screenshot). In the top screenshot, the coordinate system is showing the local coordinate system.

[tawdry surge]

Ugh.. Im too tired for the math behind that. Are you good with algebra and geometry?

[blissful grail]

Algebra, generally fine. Geometry, not really.

[tawdry surge]

https://www.euclideanspace.com/maths/algebra/vectors/lookat/index.htm

This has the formula for calculating the look at in 3d

It's not too crazy, but pry be messy in BP so I'd make a function

[junior hedge]

Another way to do if statements besides branching and selecting?

[tawdry surge]

Switch

Gate

[junior hedge]

can you use it for floats?

[foggy escarp]

Select node

Using select nodes allows you to have a bit of branch less programming and is from what I here a bit better for performance if you plan on have a lot of them.

[tawdry surge]

Switch on int is one of them, so yes

[remote meteor]

it depends on what you hook to the select nodes, if they are pure functions, all of them will get executed.

[tawdry surge]

Branchless or functional programming is more performant generally because the compiler tries to guess which branch you'll take ahead of time to help speed things up. If it guesses wrong then it has to stop and go back. Idk how much benefit it has in BP

[zealous moth]

@junior hedge compare floats

[junior hedge]

whats the node to print multiple things again? I forgot

as in "Health: (HP)"

[tawdry surge]

Append

[junior hedge]

thx

[bold phoenix]

Hi ! I have a HUB for my pawn but somehow the 'Event Possessed' node is launched on begin play. Is this normal ?

The blueprint is n a character i can posses by hitting E

But here the HUB appears straight away even though I posses another character that don't have this function

[limber parcel]

how the hell do behavior trees execute code without triggering a break point?

the FinishInvestigate has code that sets Is Investigating? to false, which it does, but it never activates the break point

this is confusing the shit out of me

like none of the breakpoints are triggered

added one inside the function now too

[junior hedge]

how can i make a double variable?

[limber parcel]

u mean a double precision float?

[swift hornet]

Should I create a custom BP function and set the scale for each gun?

[limber parcel]

any ideas? none of the breakpoints trigger but it obviously executes the code

[solar sequoia]

Yes. The controller possesses the pawn on begin play

[bold phoenix]

Okay, thank you !

[radiant silo]

UE doesn't have an integral function, right? need to calculate character stop distance with non-constant deceleration, so summing the distance under a curve / timeline given remaining time

I guess I can build one but I've gotta be overlooking something, right?

[tight schooner]

Depends where the collision is coming from and how it's moved. If it's part of the mesh, and you're moving the mesh directly with BP, then the collision should follow. Same if it's a collision component attached to the mesh component. If the door is animated via some material or otherwise GPU effect, then as far as the CPU is concerned, the door isn't actually moving.

[snow summit]

Omg thank you!

[serene pike]

It's using complex as simple collision and is just the bars, looking at complex/simple in asset editor doesn't show any other collisions around it, and I'm simply using a move component to on the bars to make them just go downwards. (part of the same blueprint)

[tight schooner]

@serene pike dunno. If you run out of ideas, maybe disable collision when it opens

But by description I don't see what's going wrong

[serene pike]

There's a way to do that for an asset itself inside a blueprint?

Well, I have one blueprint, has switches and 'opens' the door. Flick the switches and it'll move the door, which is in the same blueprint, down. It does move it, but the collision stays

[tight schooner]

If the collidable mesh is the "move door" component, put that component on your event graph, and I think you can use an enable collision node

[serene pike]

Not particularly technical so that'd be the best description I can give

[serene pike]

(demonstration of whats going on)

Also a separate issue, I have a bunch of 'accessed none trying to read' for add to viewport nodes but as far as I know they should still be able to read them, so I'm assuming its because of previous compression and migration what sort of change do I need to make for all the errors to realise they still have it?

[tawdry surge]

#1 don't make and remove widgets on tick. Just no..
#2 what does your components tab look like for the bars BP?

[cyan bone]

How do i use a procedural mesh as my instanced static mesh?

[hollow bronze]

Not sure if it's the right place, but i'm trying to make some custom collision object channel so that my player projectile ignore my player, i managed and know how to set up the channel, but i'm not sure how to give my player the "player" object type i created?

[tight schooner]

@serene pike oh I didn't know it was some multiplayer thing. Can't help with those. Do the client and server agree about the door being there and collidable?

[serene pike]

Ah I have no idea about the server/client thing, its a group project and it was one of the many bugs that appeared once I got the game back to me.

[tawdry surge]

@hollow bronze you set it in the details panel of the capsule and/or mesh component in the collision section

[hollow bronze]

Yeah thanks i think i just found it as you answer me, thanks for the confirmation tho

[junior hedge]

this script keeps event 3 times when I click mouse down and idk why

I have a copy paste of this script and it doesnt do that

(functions are also the same)

[junior hedge]

(I had 3 of them spawned on the map)

also is there a way to pause a sequence, or stop it?

[tight schooner]

Each spawned instance of that BP is listening for your left mouse button then executing your code. So yeah. Why are you processing inputs for your player pawn outside of the player pawn (or player controller)? Esp on a BP you're spawning multiple of, thus causing this issue?

I gotta zzz right now so that's a rhetorical question for you

[junior hedge]

I couldn't cast to the bp so I had to make a function in the character and just call to it so the variables can be shared but it's fine I already fixed it

[undone surge]

in simple oop terms what does cast do. bcuz sometimes i see it being used when i feel its not imp but i feel i should know

only used when we want to convert variable type ?

[dawn gazelle]

Casting is a means of making a less specific object reference more specific so that you can access the functions and variables that are accessible to that specific class. Casting will only succeed if the input object is of, or inherits from, the defined casted class.

[undone surge]

got it

[trim matrix]

Hello. unreal engine 4 where is save game folder location , after I build the project ?

[twilit heath]

can be 3 different places

Project/Save/Cooked

install folder/save

or where you told it to save manually

depending on if its installed and how you ran it

[jagged stone]

I have a DataTable filled with "Team" custom struct. When a player joins I pull a "Team" from the DataTable and pull it into a "Team" variable on the player. The problem is that it appears to Copy the Struct when setting the variable, as opposed to setting it as a reference. So if 2 players have the same Team set, updating one players team struct will not update the other, as both players have a separate copy. How should I handle this?

Would I have to store the Teams in a map on the gamestate instead; and then just store a key reference on the players instead?

[tribal plume]

When I am spawning a projectile the size is not of the Blueprint, and its of the actor size from which it was spawned from. I am unsure of how to modify the scale of the spawned actor, but this is what I have for the spawning. The Spawn Arrow variable is just an arrow component

[jagged stone]

If you right click the Spawn Transform pin and split it you can set the scale in there

[maiden wadi]

I would recommend a replicated actor similar to a PlayerState, that is always relevant to only it's team members. That requires a C++ approach though.

[tribal plume]

Thank you! It worked

[fair magnet]

btw what's the shortcut for NOT since everytime I search for not it gives me the not equalwhich absolutely annoys me

[trim matrix]

@twilit heath ok . Thanks for the answer

[neat lava]

some one help can't add Timeline to Gameplay Ability why

[fair magnet]

People in #gameplay-ability-system may know more about this

[neat lava]

okok

[versed sun]

if you check this favorite star the node you want should be default when searching

[opaque acorn]

Hello guys is there any function which returns true when two actors are coming closer??

I need to make a device which will look light up if the receiver is coming closer

[jagged stone]

Get Distance To gives you the distance between two actors

Or you would make the device an AI pawn, and then add a pawn sensor (so that when it "sees" an actor in a certain range it does something

Or you could make a collision box and wait for overlap

[versed sun]

I would start with something like this

and save New Distance as a Float and plug it into Old Distance every time you use function

[maiden wadi]

You just need velocity and target location. If velocity is pointing towards target location. Actor is headed towards the other actor.

[uneven geode]

where should i control which pawn spawn when level opening? player controller?

[elfin wolf]

thanks, ive been typing "not b" every single time lol

[opaque acorn]

I would start with something like this
@versed sun

Thank you

Or you would make the device an AI pawn, and then add a pawn sensor (so that when it "sees" an actor in a certain range it does something
@jagged stone
No it has to strictly work when distance is getting closer

Its like a bomb detection thing or radiation detection as you get closer the deep and light on off gets intense and more frequent

[sullen horizon]

So I noticed after messing around with navigating that there is no (Can navigate to location) function inside of unreal. Is there a way that I can choose that from scratch?

[opaque acorn]

So I noticed after messing around with navigating that there is no (Can navigate to location) function inside of unreal. Is there a way that I can choose that from scratch?
@sullen horizon
Wat u want to do?

[tawdry surge]

Ai move to has successful and failed pins

[jolly cairn]

hi i have an actor that represents a tool and when the player selects the tool, i want it to spawn and attach to the camera. the player does not have a mesh and will never have a mesh so can't do this with sockets. Is this doable?

[gentle urchin]

Same lol. Annoying how that changed in ue5

[tawdry surge]

@jolly cairn scene component

[jolly cairn]

like, this is a tool that the player uses

saying scene component isn't very helpful...

[tawdry surge]

Use a scene component in the player BP to mark the relative transform where you would like the tool to attach to

[jolly cairn]

found a way with sockets now

ye no not working now

ok so scene component, where i want it to spawn

spawn the actor on it and attach to camera component, right?

[tawdry surge]

Nah attach it to the scene component.
As long as the component is parented to the camera it'll hold it's offset

[jolly cairn]

ty got it now

[junior hedge]

is there a way I can make an empty attachment in ui? (For easy visibility settings)

[serene pike]

If my print nodes suddenly have “client” or “server” before them when playing in editor, does that indicate it’s trying to do something online? Or has some box been ticked somewhere

[tawdry surge]

It indicates you are probably playing as listen server with more then on player in the session.
Beside the play button there is a drop down menu.
Set players to 1 and net mode as standalone if you want single player

[plucky yoke]

Is it possible to enable and disable nodes with an action? In this case I have a component with couple of different functionalities. Instead of going through multiple branches I though I could just disable or enable some of the nodes during begin event.

[errant snow]

No, that's not a thing. If you don't want something to happen you'll have to branch around it.

[plucky yoke]

Ok, though so too. I guess optimization is then looots of copypasta, if I ever feel like it 😂

[trim matrix]

hEy sweEtiEs

- is there a way to get the body volume of complex meshes ?

• aka not primitives because their volume can be calculated via actor bounds which is not the case with complex meshes
• this would need to work on dynamic or static meshes runtime

any thoughts ? merci in advance

[chrome fractal]

Hey, I am working on a project in which I have some save game files which are perfectly working for pc but not for android. Can anyone help me with this issue.?

[astral epoch]

"Working" in what sense, Karan?

My first guess here is that you're saving/loading from a location that exists on PC but not on Android. Can you do a check first to make sure the file is valid and print out whatever data you need from it before trying to use it?

@chrome fractal

[junior hedge]

for sequence mode is there any way to make the movements not smooth? just instant transform switches?

[night tartan]

Having placed 4 instances of the same actor in the level, how can I get a ref from a specific instance from "Get all actors of class"?

[astral epoch]

"Get all actors of class" should return an array right?
You can use the "get" function on that with an index value to get a specific instance.
Problem here is you need to know which instance you're wanting and, honestly, I don't know how it determines the order the array is populated.

4 instances shouldn't be that hard to go through and find differences (assuming this is like characters with names or something) but try to avoid it if you're doing say 100s of instances.

[junior hedge]

no way?

[tawdry surge]

@junior hedgeif you mean in sequencer, you just key frame the location and then next frame mark the new location

[astral epoch]

Also depending on what exactly you're getting the instances for, it might be a good idea to store a reference to the individuals as variables instead.

[junior hedge]

the transitions are smooth though I want it to seem like it's blinking I guess you could say?

[tawdry surge]

If it happens in one frame then it will be a blink

[junior hedge]

oh ic

so do I just need to copy the keys every frame?

or is there a less tedious way

[astral epoch]

Animations work by smoothing between each keyframe like a lerp.
I've not tried it but I imagine if you have a keyframe the frame before you want to blink that is equal to the last frame?

[tawdry surge]

Any time you want an instant snap from one spot to another you'll have to mark the keys frames
However there is a record button that makes it pretty quick

[junior hedge]

I cannot copy keys in UI animator for some reason

idk why

[astral epoch]

Anyways question:
How can I stop a camera attached to a pawn from rotating with the pawn?
I want to be able to orbit around the squad but every time it turns a corner the entire camera shifts with it.

[tawdry surge]

On the pawn turn off use control rotation yaw

[astral epoch]

It is turned off.

For context, camera is on the pawn, the controller is using Set View Target to it.

[tawdry surge]

Is the spring arm using control rotation?

[junior hedge]

the reason I couldnt copy and paste was because you cant do it with 2 objects at once (even though they are in the same sequence)

[astral epoch]

No but it is inheriting yaw.

[tawdry surge]

Ok.
And the pawn capsule/meshes aren't correct?

[astral epoch]

The pawn itself has no capsule/mesh. Its an invisible marker that the camera focuses on.

Think like an RTS camera?

[polar wing]

Hi, can anyone help with this Lyra Project issue im having? I have so far managed to get the hit effect to play on my target and stops when the damage = 100f by adding the ability system component.

But i have a hard time finding a way to apply the death ability that this post mentions. So either removing the actor once shot or once the health is drained which would activate the death ability.
https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/trying-to-work-with-lyra-unable-to-do-simplest-thing-create-a-cube-that-can-be-damaged/572512/2

[tawdry surge]

Ok, so are you attaching it to the units?

[astral epoch]

Sort of.

You ever play Total War?

[tawdry surge]

How is that happening?

Yeah the original one

[astral epoch]

Right, think that but the camera "snaps" to the currently selected squad.
Way its handled in the controller is you have an array of your useable squads and a reference to the currently focused one.

Like I said, "set view target" to look at the current one.

And yes I know its jank and miles off what Unreal was intended for

[neat stream]

How can I get the "Play from here" position in the GameMode?

[tawdry surge]

Ok, so set view target is possessing a new camera on the currently focused unit?

[astral epoch]

Yes

[tawdry surge]

Ok, so that camera/spring arm settings are the ones you need to be looking at

[astral epoch]

Yup

Though now I'm thinking about it, I might have a different solution.

Just possessing a pawn that moves to the squad itself instead? Decoupled from the actual units though.

[tawdry surge]

Is that spring arm inheriting yaw as well?

[astral epoch]

It is

Yeah I think just having a separate pawn for the camera alone that follows the focused squad's position (but not rotation) might work better

[tawdry surge]

I think hitting that check box might help you out here
But attaching the player pawn to the active unit works too

[astral epoch]

On the springarm, what's the different between the socket and target offsets?

They seem to be giving the same results to changes.

[tawdry surge]

I think they refer to the origin and ending point of the line

I usually only mess with the target offset

[astral epoch]

Right, just didn't seem like there was a difference. I imagine changing the start would change the end too.

[night tartan]

Thanks for the answer, you are right, I get the array, have tested the length and returns me the correct number of actors placed, and yeah... It would be 100s of instances. I've add a public int variable to the actor so I can change it in the editor, and it works if I "get actor of class" it returns me the highest number of all public ids, but at least changing that ID shows the correct row from the datatable. Visualize 100 different markets with their own goods to trade, different names, cultures ( this may be shared between markets), etc.

[astral epoch]

So from what I understand, each market will have an ID associated with it?
You might want to make your own array because, like I said, the "get all actors" might not populate it in the right order.

[night tartan]

Correct

[tawdry surge]

Well if you give each market an int as an ID either in the level or on spawn it'd be better to have them register themselves with the manager. This way they can populate a map using the store id as the key and a soft object reference as the value

Faster lookups and you don't have every market always loaded like you do for a hard object reference array, like the one from get all actors of class

[versed spruce]

Ive reached a point where im ready to ask for help. I am trying to make a fluent power grid. All the devices tell one blueprint how much power they are consuming and the blueprint updates them every second at what % speed that are allowed to operate at. So for example if the grid has 20W of power and it has two 20 watt lights connected. They would both run at 10W or 50% power and the brightness would be reflected in that. I cant figure out how to make the blueprints talk in a smart way

[tawdry surge]

For that I'd probably do an event dispatcher or two

[radiant silo]

UE doesn't have an integral function, right? need to calculate character stop distance with non-constant deceleration, so summing the distance under a curve / timeline given remaining time

[versed spruce]

They problem i found with that is the light bulb need to inform the power manager how much power it is using. Event dispatchers dont send data with them

[tawdry surge]

You 100% can add inputs to a dispatcher and pass them to the listener

[versed spruce]

I looked for it and didnt see it. I found it now

let me try that

[tawdry surge]

@radiant silo FIntegralCurve?

[radiant silo]

you know, I saw that but honestly didn't understand how it worked - that's a curve itself

the docs are kind of sparse https://docs.unrealengine.com/5.0/en-US/API/Runtime/Engine/Curves/FIntegralCurve/

I'd have expected a function that took in a curve and a timestamp and returned the sum, I guess?

[tawdry surge]

I mean thats a timeline essentially. You can assign an external curve asset and update returns the current value.
I think you'd have to get the time and the value at that time yourself otherwise

[radiant silo]

wouldn't the timeline just return the value at a point in time though, rather than the sum?

[tawdry surge]

You can get other information from it too

You'd have to sum it yourself still

[radiant silo]

I guess that's the part that shocks me, haha

integrals feel pretty integral (lol) to doing any math with curves, shrug

I guess I'll homebrew an integral function

[tawdry surge]

Vector has a calcIntegral function but thats all I can see

[radiant silo]

hm yeah, I saw that but the description said "over the surface of a sphere"

[tawdry surge]

Yeah

[radiant silo]

I guess I could maybe drop / zero out the third axis

[faint pasture]

You could formulate your curves as distance instead of speed.

[radiant silo]

that hurts my brain

[versed spruce]

How do i make one event call all the listeners without having to tell the caller every instance that is listening?

[radiant silo]

will think a little more, thanks guys

[faint pasture]

Instead of plotting speed over time, plot distance.

[radiant silo]

yeah, I get what you meant haha

the implications are kind of complicated

@versed spruce shouldn't that happen implicitly if the listeners are subscribing to the event?

[faint pasture]

Dispatcher

When a dispatcher is called, it calls all things bound to it

[versed spruce]

All the event dispatchers ask me to select a target for what to call

Then the bind also asks for a target

[radiant silo]

if you're trying to make a bunch of objects on the floor react when a player jumps, for instance:

1. objects that need to react need to bind to an "on jump" event on the pawn
2. the controller calls the "jump" function on the pawn when you hit the spacebar
3. the "jump" function on the pawn dispatches an "on jump" event (plus makes the actor jump etc)
4. objects will automatically fire their bound handlers for "on jump"

so the pawn has an "on jump" event dispatcher, plus a "jump" function that runs your logic + dispatches the event

[versed spruce]

omg it worked

My brain is so fried. Ive been doing this for 12 hours straight

Thanks for the help, gonna take a break now

[compact scarab]

hi i want to convert byte array to string (utf-8) but that feature in low entry plugin doesn’t seem to work for me in ios but it works for other platforms'

how do i implement that without the use of that plugin

[radiant silo]

@versed spruce haha I know that feel, rest up

[faint pasture]

Look at the code, do something similar

[warm glacier]

Does anyone know why Line traces by channel don't work when the actor has physics simulation?
The only way I can pickup and drop the log is by not using physics at all.

I attach the log to a socket because I want to use animations in the future.

[faint pasture]

What makes you think the line trace doesn't work?

[warm glacier]

The fact that when simulating physics is enabled it simply doesn't work

[faint pasture]

Are you 100% sure it's blocking the Camera channel when simulating physics?

[warm glacier]

Is there another way I can check beside just activating and deactivating simulating physics?

[faint pasture]

Are you sure that's ALL you're doing. You aren't changing anything else about the collision profile?

Show your setup for the actor, maybe you're simulating physics on the mesh but tracing vs some other collider

[warm glacier]

that's all

[faint pasture]

Are you sure it's the trace that's the problem? How are you doing the pickup when it's simulating physic?

[slate ruin]

Hi all, quick little vector math challenge. I have the Z height and the angle of the projecting line, but I'm trying to find X length. Any help appreciated.

[faint pasture]

You are probably just attaching the actor which only attaches the defaultsceneroot and leaves the mesh to continue simulating along

[faint pasture]

Sin(angle) x Z

[warm glacier]

that's how I do it with simulation 🤣

[faint pasture]

@warm glacierI think this is your problem

That'll grab the root component

which is great and all, but does nothing

add another mesh with NO collision and not simulating physics just so you can see if it snaps to your hand

I bet it does

[slate ruin]

oo ok, let me try to play with that, might need clarification, but will try now

[warm glacier]

Check the last video; it snaps indeed. but what's the alternative then?

I replace the rootcomponent with the mesh?

[faint pasture]

Grab the mesh instead of the root component, or just lose the root scene component

[warm glacier]

alright I'll try right now.

[faint pasture]

I've used a tiny root cube for when I want a static or skeletal mesh on subclasses of the same thing

the base class had a cube collider as root

[warm glacier]

Yeah it works, thanks. Now, I imagine I disable physics when carrying it right?

[timid thunder]

Would Anyone Know How To Fix The Spinning Issue?

[slate ruin]

Like this?

[faint pasture]

Have you tried it?

[slate ruin]

yeah, it doesn't give me what I'm after

[faint pasture]

What are your input numbers?

and output number, is your angle in degrees?

[slate ruin]

yes, degrees

the values are all variable, so no fixed values

[faint pasture]

Just print one set of them

or a bunch

[slate ruin]

ok

[slate ruin]

ok, I tried a few and figured if I set the angle to 45 degrees then the X value should be identical to to the Z value (as the angle is perfectly between them). Like this (values shown on variables).

except it's not, it returns 70, so no, it doesn't work

so at 45 the two distances should be equal, like this. Then as Z increases, X decreases and vice versa. Makes sense?

[faint pasture]

oh whoops yeah it should be tangent

tan

[slate ruin]

ah ok, will try

[faint pasture]

read up on your trig functions

it might be tan(90-angle) but just check

yeah tan(45) is 1, tan(0) is 0, so it should be it

[slate ruin]

I was, just struggling to find someone tackling this general issue, all examples seems to assume you knew two side's length

[faint pasture]

That's the vector approach. trig is all about angles

[slate ruin]

Yeah, I ultimately need a vector location

[faint pasture]

What exactly are you trying to do? There might be a simpler method.

where is this angle coming from

[slate ruin]

It was tan as you said, and I had to minus the angle from 90 as well. Thanks a bunch!

[slate ruin]

So I'm building a set of tools using geoscript in UE5. I'm working on a roof builder right now and I'm just tidying up some of the finer details. A bit hard to explain, but I need to make sure the inner walls of the loft stay at a consistent height though the angle of the roof will be adjusted

In a real house, the side walls of lofts don't just taper away into the angle of the roof, they're usually boxed off, to create a more square room, I hope that makes sense

[faint pasture]

Yeah these right?

[slate ruin]

That's it! a 'knee wall' didn't know they were called that

[faint pasture]

I'm building one at my house right now, finishing the attic

[slate ruin]

nice!

[faint pasture]

Do you know, is it possible to use Lumen with geoscript stuff?

[slate ruin]

Looks like this right now, bit hard to show the tool off in a picture, but it just let's me dynamically create roofs, it's part of a bigger set that does walls / floors etc then bakes out to nanite geo.

[slate ruin]

Yes, def, that's what I'm doing

[faint pasture]

Can Lumen/Nanite be used with stuff made at runtime?

[slate ruin]

Runtime is a challenge, you can't bake to nanite at runtime as far as I'm aware. You can only use dynamic meshes (which are not nanite). Also DMs do not use Lumen fully, though they might in the future

Everything I'm doing is in editor, then baked out to nanite static

[junior hedge]

anyway I can get good shadows without having to use raytracing?

was using Lumen and was getting 70 frames with like 2 light sources

[slate ruin]

I know we were just talking about Lumen, but you should really post your question over in #lumen

[junior hedge]

yeah yeah mb

[slate ruin]

I can answer it there

[junior hedge]

can you just tag me

[slate ruin]

yeah

[junior hedge]

someone was on me cus I posted somewhere else last time

k

thx

[hybrid ether]

How to I get angle between 3 vectors? I have location of sun/player/center of earth

[serene pike]

Thanks ever so much friend, I definitely wasn't going to find the answer alone any time soon with what I was searching for. Also sorted a few other problems

[faint pasture]

That's the angle between TWO vectors, A-B and A-C

This should get you started

[hybrid ether]

Okay thanks!

[faint pasture]

Angle = acos(dot(A, B)/(Length(A)*Length(B)))

[blazing kite]

It might also work by converting both vectors to rotators, then doing the subtraction, then using the "Euler" node to get the angle

[amber hill]

Where is the best place to run events for a widget switcher.

For example I have 3 different types of units, with sub units. I wish to change the UI when each type of unit is selected. This info is stored in an array in an interface in the game mode, Any ideas would be appreciated?

[blazing kite]

I'm not sure to understand but you can have a button in your widget that switch the unit, meaning, "OnClicked" you change the var and update the UI

[amber hill]

Yeah, I looked down that route which is clearly the easiest but I do not wish to do it that way as it involves the player clicking a button. I'd like to have the player select a type of unit and the UI automatically change.

[blazing kite]

How does he select a type of unit ?

[amber hill]

Mouse button and Marquee that pushes through to a custom event on the interface labelled Unit selected

[faint pasture]

ew no

don't

[blazing kite]

can't you just update the UI on this custom event?
You can then call "update" functions on the widgets that needs it.
Or if all widgets are childs of a main widget, call an event on that main widget which then calls update events on child widgets.
You can also use an event dispatcher, and bind in the widgets that needs to be updated and perform your update here

[wet shore]

Hey so I am trying to bind text in the widget blueprint it doesn't appear in game. the text isn't disabled either and appears when not binded

[blazing kite]

Because it might not be the same rotator if doing R1 - R2 or R2 - R1 ? That's right lol

[blazing kite]

If it appear when not binded it probably means that your text variable is empty, try to print it

[sullen horizon]

Basically i want to make it that if i have a follower and they can't navigate to the player then they will teleport to their location

[amber hill]

I will try that let you know

[bold sedge]

any reason why I can't delete this? I'm not using world partition

[hidden stump]

Yo! I was experimenting with metahumans

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jr4u-_WTxSQ

followed that tutorial exactly till 10:10 about

and like

it doesnt look right

the body parts should kinda like snap there

tf

I fixed it a bit but the hands are still looking really wrong

https://gyazo.com/f9ac32b61f2ce3b5a445a2708f10b2c1

ok bro wtf

[amber hill]

Any idea what an object a parent actor would use when being casted to from a HUD Class?

[hidden stump]

fixed my stuff nvm

[analog canopy]

Im trying to make a snake movement like this https://youtu.be/D9lunzyn5yo and there's no tutorials for it. Anyone know how to make bones follow eachother like that?

[blazing kite]

After some calculations :
R1 = (20, -50, 70)
R2 = (-30, -90, 50)

R3 = R1-R2 = (50, 40, 20)
R4 = R2-R1 = (-50, -40, -20)

Didn't tested with the Euler node but the Angle of R3 and R4 should be the same right? And this should be the angle between R1 and R2

I might be missing something

[blazing kite]

You might want to store all bones locations in an array, then on every movement of the head, move all the bones in the direction of it's predecessor in a for loop (didn't tested but this is how I would try it)

[analog canopy]

Okay Thanks!

i'll try that

[blazing kite]

But in the video you linked, it says it is using physics so the method i told you is different I think
And it might be weird if the snake is falling like at 1:15, the tail will stay in the air if the snake stops

[analog canopy]

Im trying to make a Chinese Dragon game so my dragon wont have gravity and it has legs so its not that important

[faint pasture]

You have 3 points, and 2 direction vectors (they share the middle point, that's the one you want the angle at).

[blazing kite]

R1 and R2 are the vectors from the middle point to the two others points, converted to rotators

[faint pasture]

Yeah just don't do that, it's gross. You can get the delta, but now you need the angle between them from that rotator. Unless you get super lucky and the rotator is only in yaw or whatever, you're back to where you started.

[cyan bone]

Can hierarchical instanced static meshes perform worse than instanced static meshes?
I set HISM up with LODs and im getting less 40 fps when compared to the same static mesh that uses only one LOD 0 of the former.
Is this because a HISM has to check for distance constantly? I thought an HISM was just an ISM with extra LODs?

[faint pasture]

Unless we have a magnitude of rotator node, dunno if we do

[blazing kite]

There is that : https://docs.unrealengine.com/4.27/en-US/API/Runtime/Core/Math/FRotator/Euler/ But I don't know if it's exposed to blueprint

[faint pasture]

You'll end up with a delta like (30,-22.4,0), and then now what? You still don't know the angle between them in the plane they're in.

converting stuff to euler just makes a rat's nest out of it.

[blazing kite]

Oh you're right, it doesn't return a float

[wet shore]

i got it to show up now but the integer that I have it binded to isnt updating

[river pine]

GENERAL Question 🙋🏻 Is it affecting the speed of response in Game if the code is long? Should it be chunked in parts or does it not matter? Like a on overlap Scenario do this and that…

[faint pasture]

No, not really.

I mean, more code can cost more than less code, but if you need the same amount of code, just broken up, there's not much of a difference. Don't worry about it.

[river pine]

Ok, i was thinking about to speed things up. I make a game where a ggostwomen runs at you and the player needs to press a key to prevent the attack. So works mostly but unfortunately not always @faint pasture

[radiant silo]

it's more about what you're doing than the length of the code

[wet shore]

here is what I want it to do btw but it just wont update

[river pine]

I check if the player has a weapon equipped- branch true - cast to anim bp of the ai

And much more but sometimes it doesn’t even cast to the anim bp

[radiant silo]

doesn't sound like a performance issue, you probably just need to check validity of the player / weapon / etc

try the "is valid" node

[river pine]

Yes its just a boolean

Oh is that quicker?

[blazing kite]

Your nodes looks right, maybe "AddCoinScores" is not called ?

[river pine]

So is valid is faster than boolean/branch/true? @radiant silo

[radiant silo]

you don't have to worry about performance of either of those nodes

[river pine]

Its just 0.5 seconds time frame. 😅

[radiant silo]

boolean checks are essentially free

if casting is failing, you're probably calling it on an invalid reference

and if you're trying to troubleshoot performance, it's probably related to the actual logic on the branch nodes, not the branch itself

[river pine]

Yes, mh i wonder what could cause the unreliability

Its literally…. On overlap

Probably overlap is the bottle neck?

[wet shore]

i called it but it wont update which i don't understand

[blazing kite]

Post a screen of your nodes, it will be easier to help

[river pine]

Yes can do it tomorrow

😅

[blazing kite]

If you place "PrintString" in "AddCoinScores", does it get printed when it needs to ?

[faint pasture]

It literally doesn't matter.

[river pine]

Ok

Is on overlap maybe the bottleneck?

[faint pasture]

What makes you think you have a bottleneck? Have you profiled it?

Your bottleneck is probably VSync lol

[wet shore]

no string prints. also here is where I called it

[river pine]

No, unfortunately i has a similar problem where i tried to catch projectils on overlap. After a certain speed it was not responding

[faint pasture]

That's from the collision being missed, turn on CCD

[river pine]

I have ccd on

😕

[wet shore]

I know the player is hitting the coin to because I have a sound play when the player collects it and the actor disappears. the score just doesnt change

[river pine]

Or do i need ccd on the ai and the player?

Probably not , the ai should get it with ccd

[faint pasture]

Give a video of your problem if you can

[river pine]

Ok its late here, may i send you tomorrow the code and a 5 sec example video?

[faint pasture]

sure

[river pine]

Ok sended you a pm

Thanks

[warm glacier]

here we go again. This worked PERFECTLY one hour ago, I'm starting to hate this sled. Anyone with ideas?

[wet shore]

WAIT nvm i figured it out 😅

[blazing kite]

wrong character reference ? ^^

[wet shore]

yup

but they had the same name 😅

[blazing kite]

That happens ^^

[wet shore]

only took me a day to figure it out

[late tusk]

Say I want to use the same eventgraph initialize animation in multiple animinstances and dont want to copy past, I tried makeing child ABP's but then the parent ABP initialize animation dont run and I cant find a way to call partent eventgraph functions, does anyone know how to do this ?

[fiery swallow]

the isvalid bool is inside of the isvalid macro... lol

[blazing kite]

To call a parent event, you can right click the event and click on "add call to parent function"

[late tusk]

Omg thanks 😄

[trim matrix]

how can i detect the edges of a mesh in blueprint?

[faint pasture]

You can't really, but you can get its bounding box

Unless there's some new stuff with UE5

[plucky plank]

Hey, I'm having a strange issue with the Get Velocity node. When I read the velocity of my pawn, The X and Y component of the velocity seem to always be zero no matter what I do. Any idea why this could be occuring?

I feel stupid, I've used this node before several times and never once had an issue

[faint pasture]

What would the "edges of a mesh" even be?

You mean the literal edges, the thousands of them?

[trim matrix]

im trying to get something like this
where some sphere are placed in the mesh corners

[late tusk]

in 4 corners or in all 9 ?

[late tusk]

I guess you dont use a spline ?

[trim matrix]

this is different it's from unity

[faint pasture]

That's gonna be kinda tough, what are you trying to accomplish?

[trim matrix]

a 2d to 3d mechanic like mario odyssey

[faint pasture]

You'd probably want to author those points in there in winding order, with sockets.

[late tusk]

so you use a spline ?

[faint pasture]

Still need the points, just calculating them from the raw geometry of the mesh will be hard.

and probably impossible in BP

I'd use sockets

[trim matrix]

im sorry ain't using splines

[faint pasture]

Yeah that's gonna be damn hard, bad enough just getting the perimeter, but mapping a 2d area to it? good luck.

Doable tho

[trim matrix]

ye looks like im gonna use c++

[late tusk]

how do you make the 2d ?

[faint pasture]

@trim matrixHow many distinct meshes are you expecting this to be used on?

[trim matrix]

i think of making another character 'sprite' and switching it with a trigger

[trim matrix]

i think square or circular meshes would be enough

[faint pasture]

You might not need the corners at all, use UV mapping to do it.

[trim matrix]

or maybe a decal seems better

[trim matrix]

yikes the thing i always don't want to deal with

[faint pasture]

You are severely underestimating how hard this mechanic is.

You're talking like this right?
https://youtu.be/bGwAtbQIC_8?t=56

[trim matrix]

ye

[faint pasture]

Start with being able to move a dot on a cylinder. You'll want to be comfy with UVs, and probably have to have a seperate scene that is then rendered to a render target and applied to the cylinder

The 3d surface is basically the "display" that you are playing a seperate scene on.

You don't need to get the corners of anything for this.

[trim matrix]

sorry for not replying soon there was a connection problem
anyways doesn't that just apply to circular meshes only?

[faint pasture]

You set up your UVs right and it'll apply to any shape mesh

[trim matrix]

the problem is
I NEVER TOUCHED OR LEANRED UVS

[mental trellis]

UVS are pretty simple. Top-Left is 0,0. Bottom right is 1,1. Each triangle on your mesh sits in that space somewhere

[trim matrix]

idk maybe

[faint pasture]

Then you need to learn.

[trim matrix]

and how will be i able to set like sprites on a cube

[mental trellis]

A very bad box uv wrap.

[faint pasture]

That's the least difficult part of doing this

[mental trellis]

Fixed*

[trim matrix]

any channel that can teach me uvs?

[tight schooner]

Yeah you'll need to learn how to make custom UVs cuz that determines how the 2D world maps onto the 3D surface. As far as learning goes that's more specific to the 3D modeling software you use and not UE?

[faint pasture]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yx2JNbv8Kpg

Learn about it, then you'll get a better picture of how hard this is.

[trim matrix]

thank you for the help

[warm summit]

In my BP, I am messing with different ways of setting the location of things. Lots of contingencies etc... Im working through options. But there does not seem to be a resource, in the online documentation, to know all the ways. Set world location, add local offset , add world offset.
[2:37 PM]
so my question is, is there an online list of ALL the nodes. The Bluprint API ref is hard to navigate.

SO Alternately..., if I just R-Click in the middle of a graph and make sure "Context Sensitive" is off. Will I find ALL the nodes under the "Transform" group? I believe i see most I have encountered so far there. I don't see a "Location" group.

Is that actually my best reference? seems like it is but I just want to make sure. Thanks!

[tight schooner]

@warm summit in the BP editor node graph, there might be a sidebar called something like Library or Palette (going from memory here)

If not, see if you can reveal it with the menu — "window" category

[warm summit]

@tight schoonerAwesome found it, THANK YOU!!!

[long whale]

hello, I'm building some level design blueprint classes. Every time after editor restart, the array variables lose all stored values. Is there a solution for that?

For example this contains 4 object references to other objects in the world before I closed the editor

[smoky rivet]

trying to make minecraft like world gen, how come when i try to generate chunks automatically upon runtime the engine says infinite loop detected, but if i drag a chunk actor into the editior window the chunk will generate just fine? i dont see what different this makes as the actor is being spawned in regardless

[worthy tendon]

is this custom blueprint?

[long whale]

yes

[worthy tendon]

is it a soft ref? also make sure it's not transient by accident

[reef marsh]

I have my player camera at the end of a SpringArm and I have it offset (TPS perspective) to the right of the character. We'll be adding a toggle to swap the camera from left to right offset (sort of over-the-shoulder). However, when you rotate the character (like strafing side to side), the camera does a weird bob of kinda coming in then going out. I moved the camera with the SocketOffset parameter. Should I be handling it differently?

[worthy tendon]

go in the blueprint and make sure Roads is not marked as transient

[long whale]

I'm not sure. The array is defined like this

[long whale]

no it's not ticked

[worthy tendon]

thats weird

[long whale]

it's weird. Happens only to arrays. I have single variable ref and they are fine.

[quartz pawn]

https://gyazo.com/31fd595805b97151d2c6f36ac7c5c42d

Why does my boat do this?

https://i.gyazo.com/31fd595805b97151d2c6f36ac7c5c42d.gif

[long whale]

An update. The array elements are added by blueprint call in editor functions. I tried to manually add the values in editor by actor picker, and the values seem to be kept.

but my objective of creating this blueprint classes is to automatically create objects link information.

[spark steppe]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DQW9GvjX4AAkvDf.jpg

[faint pasture]

What does it do if you do it nowhere near the shore? Is it falling to the seabed?

[onyx token]

idk if this fits into #animation since i'm using it for blueprint-

Is there a way to "get" what point an animation is at right now?

like from 0-1

there's a start-position
but is there a current-position?

[quartz pawn]

it depends, like it will just fall a bit and stop falling, when it moves again, it falls a bit more and stops

it's like there isn't gravity

or maybe thats just me

[worthy tendon]

Oh I think I know how to fix your problem

sorry for late reply, you there?

[smoky rivet]

trying to make minecraft world generation, i have chunk actors that generates blocks then builds meshes (only visible faces).

When i drag it into the editor normally, the chunk generates fine and everything works. When i try to generate this same chunk during runtime (spawn it in after my character spawns in) i get infinite loop detected.

how to fix and what difference do the 2 make?

[long whale]

ye, I'm here

Think it's not a problem with array, but variables modified by call in editor BP functions. Tried to change a single integer property. not saved at all

I didn't touch them in construction script.

[worthy tendon]

try this

[worthy tendon]

yeah make sure it's not being emptied in construction script

[long whale]

let me check this

[tawdry surge]

@smoky rivet if are you spawning more then 1000 or so at a time, it will trip the infinite loop error. To get around this do it in batches of 1000 or less, or use a loop with a delay

[smoky rivet]

ive tried only spawning in one, same error always

loop with delay shoots same error as well

[worthy tendon]

woops, missed this part

[tawdry surge]

Show your code

[long whale]

Worked like a charm! Thank you so much!

It works without the transact object node.

[worthy tendon]

yeah, this is what you should do for every editor button. it also gives ability to Undo/Redo these actions.

[long whale]

understand.

without the second node, the variable saves but can't undo?

[worthy tendon]

probably, I haven't tested it like that

but if i remember correctly, without Transact Object it wouldn't be able to undo some changes.

[smoky rivet]

editor keeps telling me that the branch nodes after the for loops are what caused it

but that confuses me because thats the easiest instruction

[long whale]

Thanks a lot. I wouldn't be able to continue building those BP without being able to save changes in editor functions.

[worthy tendon]

you're welcome. glad it helped 😉

[worthy tendon]

one more thing, make sure to do Transact Object for other objects that you change as well. for example if you change a property of a component, then you gotta pass that component into Transact Object as well.

[long whale]

ok

[tawdry surge]

That's the one that's called the most but if it works when placed but not at runtime it might be a timeout issue maybe.. BP loops are terribly slow and you're nesting a few

[smoky rivet]

should i rewrite the entire bp in c++?

[tawdry surge]

I mean you should eventually anyway simply for performance

[worthy tendon]

why not if you can

[smoky rivet]

i was going to, but new to conversion so it will take abit before i get the hang of what i need to do to transfer everything over

from what it seems like everything has an extra step because the header file

[worthy tendon]

I dont mean to be rude, but these nodes you've shown in first image, It's just very confusing.

[tawdry surge]

There is a great bp to c++ conversion course on unrealengine.com

Its my preferred workflow

[smoky rivet]

will do thanks boys

[worthy tendon]

just do it from scratch

I wouldn't recommend converting that blueprint into c++.

[tawdry surge]

Then you're goofy

[smoky rivet]

i cant think of another way to do it tbh

[tawdry surge]

Thats what its for

[faint pasture]

bRUH

that's unreadable

ballpark, what's your total loop count?

Make some functions with local variables and it'll cut down on the spaghet

[smoky rivet]

lmao 5

[faint pasture]

I mean total

[smoky rivet]

in the entire script

[faint pasture]

5 layers?

[smoky rivet]

no

3 loops in that layer

[faint pasture]

What i'm getting at is there's a max loop count where it shits the bed and says "infinite loop"

[smoky rivet]

do you guys have a better way of generating voxel worlds?

[faint pasture]

That's absolutely unreadable, break it up into functions

[faint pasture]

Don't try to do it in one tick in BP lol

[worthy tendon]

its up to you but it will take you more time to refactor and debug the mess it's going to generate. I would say you will save your self a lot of time by doing it from scratch. you can look at blueprints while writing the code of course.

[faint pasture]

That's like asking a gameboy to compile Unreal Engine in one frame.

[faint pasture]

Doing it in BP is fine but typically procgen has HUGE loop counts so that's what's killing you, assuming you have no bugs.

Break it up

What algorithm are you using?

[smoky rivet]

simplex noise

[worthy tendon]

do you really trust there is no bug in this mess 😄

[smoky rivet]

well

it works fine before runtime

but i get the point

il try rewriting it tonight

[faint pasture]

What do you mean before runtime

[trim matrix]

I mean if that is unreadable you don't wanna see the bps in my test projects

[smoky rivet]

editor window

i can drag it in

works fine

[faint pasture]

How big a stutter?

[trim matrix]

Sometimes I wonder myself what I was smoking when I coded them

[smoky rivet]

half a second

maybe faster

havent counted

[faint pasture]

Try just turn up the max BP loops

Somewhere in project settings

but this is C++ territory for sure.

Prototyping in BP is fine tho

[smoky rivet]

i tried spawning in 16 of them at once (4 render distance) and it took 140 seconds for the engine to realize it was infinite loop

[faint pasture]

I prototyped wavefunction collapse in BP, don't ask how slow that was

[smoky rivet]

so i think im going to c++

[faint pasture]

holy fuck

yeah nah bruh you need threading or some sort of way to break the work up

[smoky rivet]

im not trying to render anything crazy though

its a bunch of blocks

no texture

[faint pasture]

It's not the render, it's the cpu time

[trim matrix]

I recreated the pong angle calculation logic in bp... that was beyond spaghetti

[faint pasture]

the game can't do shit until it's done making your minecraft universe

[smoky rivet]

if unreal even suited for voxel style worlds?

[faint pasture]

Sure

[faint pasture]

Isn't that like 3 nodes tho

[smoky rivet]

or should i just use opengl and try to make my own complete rendering engine

[faint pasture]

Yeah go ahead and do that, see you in 10 years lmao

[smoky rivet]

good point

[trim matrix]

You wish

[faint pasture]

The engine can do anything you want

You're asking it to do all that procgen in ONE TICK

[faint pasture]

What's the general algorithm?

[trim matrix]

One tick is all it takes

[smoky rivet]

minecraft does it in one tick

[trim matrix]

Bogging the cpu with me

Possibilities

[faint pasture]

Maybe 1 tick per chunk

but I doubt that

[smoky rivet]

yeah thats what im doing

[trim matrix]

Minecraft has 16x16 textures and a custom 3d engine designed for that

[faint pasture]

The rendering has nothing to do with it

[trim matrix]

As well as a height limit and falloff distance

[faint pasture]

Wouldn't it be something like
BallVelocity = Reflect(BallVelocity, PaddleNormal) + PaddleVelocity x Friction

[smoky rivet]

are there any extra things that might be eating performance that i may never use in ue?

[faint pasture]

using vectors instead of gross trig

[trim matrix]

Nope, in pong the ball gains a custom angle relative to where it has hit the paddle

• velocity as well

Also my paddle was procedural (don't even ask) and could change on the spot so the calculation had to be done relative to a dozen different things

[faint pasture]

So then that's 1 more function. No reason to be spaghet tho.
I made an entire drivetrain simulation and Pacejka tire model in BP, it's still in BP actually, and it runs just fine and doesn't look that spaghet.

[trim matrix]

ew functions

[faint pasture]

BP can be very organized if you don't drag pins all over the goddamn place.

[trim matrix]

I like having the bigger picture on one blueprint panel

[faint pasture]

That's an entire static friction tire model

[peak plaza]

Minecraft I'm fairly sure doesn't and was highly flawed early on. It loads x chunks around you and has huge loading screens first.

That's time to build a world.

[trim matrix]

Oh yeah also fuck referencing variables, I just drag them from the same one because lazy

[faint pasture]

That makes it look ugly and unreadable. The only pins i like going any sort of distance is execution

[smoky rivet]

are chunks considered actors in minecraft or just raw data

[trim matrix]

It makes it look hackerman though

Also it's way more fun to debug later

(I'm trolling in case you didn't realize)

[faint pasture]

IDK, read up on its implementation. I guarantee they don't just crank the entire map out in one update though.

[smoky rivet]

cant find good documentation on minecraft worldgen, if you have any sources id appreciate it

[faint pasture]

You can break your work up and process X iterations per tick or whatever.

[smoky rivet]

tried searching up 50 different things and got a bunch of stupid minecraft videos and some wiki info

[tame pecan]

It’s probablt a procedural mesh component

[faint pasture]

or just do it in C++ and fire off a task to do it and report back when it's done.

[smoky rivet]

thats what im using

for blocks at least

[peak plaza]

Chunks are data in a way, only visible faces (aka exposed to air) are rendered

[smoky rivet]

yep my chunk actor renders the same way, only visible faces

[peak plaza]

There is a dude with an old tutorial for minecraft in blueprints

[faint pasture]

As far as I know it's some sort of complex noise function and diffs from it. So an untouched chunk costs no memory other than the visible parts.

[peak plaza]

Tefeldec

Tefeldev

[trim matrix]

Might I ask why you're making yet another mc-like clone? @smoky rivet

[smoky rivet]

i saw those videos

i just need to learn how to program the worldgen

trying to make different game

not really minecraft related

[trim matrix]

okay

[smoky rivet]

just same world and artstyle

[faint pasture]

It's like sampling noise. THe noise isn't taking up memory, it's just algorithmically "there", you sample it to make stuff visible.

[smoky rivet]

1/4 size of minecraft voxels, adventure based and procedural

been stuck for a few days on tackling very basic worldgen xD

[faint pasture]

Good luck, you're gonna need it.

[smoky rivet]

yeah ik

[trim matrix]

procedural is fascinating

[faint pasture]

I'm doing map generation by wavefunction collapse on a 1k grid and it's heavy AF

[peak plaza]

Lol done a bit, if you're good enough you can translate udemy courses by penny de byl from unity over

Not a simple challenge for sure

[faint pasture]

Just learn enough to know what you're doing and implement the algorithm yourself, you learn much faster by just struggling and doing vs copying

[peak plaza]

And I certainly wouldn't want blueprint for it, too many loops

[smoky rivet]

yeah i wasnt planning on sticking with blueprints

do i need to include all the uproperty bs in my c++ files or can i just write a normal class file then have ue run that? from what ive learned all the stuff in the header file is for blueprint to show it

[faint pasture]

You need to start by making a BP function library and making one function in it

get that working

[peak plaza]

I'd use Unreal for memory management

[faint pasture]

then work your way up

[peak plaza]

Unless you like handling memory

[trim matrix]

Everyone has 32gb ram anyways

[smoky rivet]

16gb gang

[faint pasture]

You probably want a Subsystem for this btw

64gb gang

[trim matrix]

12 gb ddr3 gang

[faint pasture]

64gb with a Ryzen 5 1600, like a fiat with a huge gas tank

[peak plaza]

Pfft, I'm 16 and crying as the rest of my pc is beef, gotta do up the motherboard so I can get to 64g

[trim matrix]

I've been meaning to ask, aside from timers and tick and loops what are other ways to handle time in bp? Like, having a variable change over time and do something with it

[smoky rivet]

im a little confused though, does the "generating world building terrain" in minecraft actually do all the math for the procgen and then while actually in the game it just reads a datafile on what to render?

[faint pasture]

@smoky rivethttps://github.com/devdad/SimplexNoise
btw

[smoky rivet]

i use fastnoise

[faint pasture]

Not all of it, but pregens around you

[smoky rivet]

alright will take all of this and come back in 5 years, hopefully id have been able to render 1 chunk by then

enjoy boys

[faint pasture]

You can probably just make a function library to expose Fastnoise

[smoky rivet]

one more question, header file does what exactly?

i understand i need to include all my properties and stuff for ue to recognize in blueprints, but is that required?

[last walrus]

can you guys explain me what is "world context" for? I created my function library and if I use this function inside of other library function then it has this pin (I didnt add it myself ofc)

[peak plaza]

You can do event dispatching, things like that instead of tick for sure.

[last walrus]

are you talking to me?

[peak plaza]

Yeah minecraft generates chunks around the player ahead of time.

Nah that was at soldier earlier

[worthy tendon]

I have one

[trim matrix]

learncpp.com

[trim matrix]

like multicast stuff?

[peak plaza]

Um, that's more for replication offhand afaik, but basically anything you can call and listen for allows handling stuff when finished, async stuff might be worth a look too, but in world generation in cpp, leaving the blueprint side to handle rendering I haven't had much trouble.

[worthy tendon]

You can ignore that. WorldContext is automatically assigned with self node. for function libraries this is used to access the world. (used for functions like line trace)

[last walrus]

thanks but... why the hell do I need world context for function like this?

(same function from above)

[worthy tendon]

yeah, i think it does that with all function libraries that are placed inside another function library.

[last walrus]

weird
thanks again

[worthy tendon]

2/3 AND is a function of a function library right?

[last walrus]

yep

[worthy tendon]

right, no worries

[last walrus]

👌
gonna do my weird stuff again

[desert folio]

is there a way to detect for trackpad gestures and movement on a laptop the way you can detect mouse wheel down?

[swift hornet]

I have a parent class for all of my weapons with child classes for various types of guns. Should I change the scale and rotation for each gun in the parent class or each child class?

[worthy tendon]

its easier to do it on parent so it applies to every child. but if scale is different for each child. then you have to adjust for each child.

[swift hornet]

Ok. How do I set the scale? I tried "World Scale 3D" and "World Scale" when using attach to actor but the scales don't change.

[worthy tendon]

weird, Set World Scale 3D should work.

[swift hornet]

I tried it on my AK47 but it didn't work. The gun's at a normal scale before I pick it up. Then, it's massive when I pick it up. I'm following this tutorial series: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajUN9Qe1XKU&list=PLl5i300DoPxeHtoK45l1MxEy-15ZseSyT&index=4

Then some of my other guns shrink when I pick them up.

[jaunty crow]

I'm currently using a on component overlap to get the physics material of the object my sword hit but it always returns empty and says theres no physics mat even though i've added one. this doesnt work for blueprints or just static meshes

[fiery glen]

not all collisions return physical materials

you might have to manually trace

I avoid overlaps like the plague though so I have no great ideas here

[jaunty crow]

Would a like box trace work?

Ah yup using a trace worked, thanks

[serene pike]

Is there a node for replacing an in-blueprint static mesh with another? Got a switch that I can't just rotate, hoping there's a magic node to solve it

[zealous moth]

@serene pike get static mesh and pull out of it and then set static mesh

@serene pike why can you not rotate?

[serene pike]

texture

[zealous moth]

Uh.... wut?

[hybrid horizon]

Where'd you get the weapons from? I got a pack off the market and the skeletons on the mesh's had way oversized bones that did to me what you're experiencing. I fixed it by exporting them to blender and re-rigging them to another weapon skeleton we already had that had proper size bones

[serene pike]

Unfortunately I didn't contribute in the making of the switch, but its this sort

[zealous moth]

Oh I see. It is 1 compone t not 2

[serene pike]

So my groupmates ended up doing it wrong, but the texture and all is already set

Yes, sorry

[zealous moth]

You can fix that in blender or maya

[serene pike]

Luckily the lever was a separate object so I've just rotated it down, so is there a way to replace this switch with the flipped one in a blueprint?

[hybrid horizon]

Just rotate the lever in the bp

[zealous moth]

Lol

[serene pike]

That would visibly show the texture flipping too

[hybrid horizon]

But yeah, you can swap the meshes with an event

[zealous moth]

Like I said get the mesh component and just set static mesh

[hybrid horizon]

Why would the texture "flip"?

If it didn't "flip" when you "rotated" it down, there's not reason it would if you rotate in bp

Unless your material is using a world position, it should stay the same no matter how it's rotated

[serene pike]

Its all one object

[hybrid horizon]

You said the "Luckily the lever was a different object so I just rotated it down" which led me to think you meant the actual lever and the backplate were separate pieces but now see that you meant the lever and backplate is separate from another mesh. MB

[serene pike]

I'll have to reflect on what I just said 🤨

[hybrid horizon]

Isnt the flipped mesh your going to swap out also going to have the texture upside down also?

[serene pike]

Oh, I meant in the modelling software, sorry

[hybrid horizon]

If you're in blender or whatever, just export it as 2 differnt parts and make sure the origin of the moving part is on the hinge and then you can rotate just the actual handle

[serene pike]

Meant I'd flipped it like this and other than the rotation no changes were needed, so I dont have to worry about the texture

[serene pike]

I'll do this, thanks. I never considered separating and using the same texture

[hybrid horizon]

Yeah the material will work fine as long as you don't edit any vertices or anything. Detaching parts of a mesh won't affect the texturing

[serene pike]

I was hesitant to step on any work the others had done as I'd landed in trouble before for backtracking their work, should be fine if its just a reexport

[hybrid horizon]

Totally understandable

But yeah, that's your best bet. Then if you want, you can use a timeline or similar to rotate over a short time so it's not instantaneously flipped

[chrome fractal]

Hey @astral epoch , it's the issue with api levels. Save game is not working in 29+ api. That means Android 10+ having issues in saving and loading file.

[astral epoch]

what

[trim pollen]

???

[humble flume]

My fps arms montages are not playing i have used the slot default slot then also no animation is playing evrything is fine animation are also correct but not playing any solution

Can we use anim montages for first person arms

[gentle urchin]

You probably just want a new state in your locomotion

Or perhaps layered locomotion

[prisma tree]

Pls help a math challanged person: I want to find out the difference from one number to another, ie
5->6 = +1
6->5 = -1

5->15 = +10
5->-5 = -10

Any ideas?

[gentle urchin]

B - A

Or target value - starting value

[prisma tree]

Omg so simple thanks so much! 🙂

[gentle urchin]

If you dont care if its positive or negative you can simply do abs on it

[prisma tree]

Oh but I wanted the negative so this is perfect 🙂

[gentle urchin]

Cool :)

[burnt citrus]

Hey I have a question
I want to play anim montage, but it won't play
I set slot and correct montage, and even though it is actually active when I use "Print String" for "Get Current Active Montage"
but Animation won't play, strange
Any idea?

[copper bison]

Has the IOS IAP flow changed in UE4 to UE5?

[nimble lichen]

so you have default slot set in your anim bp directly before your output node in anim graph? @burnt citrus

and if so, i think from a tutorial i saw a while back that theres 2 play montage nodes in character's bp may want to try the one you are not currently using

[burnt citrus]

I don't play animmontage twice at the same time

[nimble lichen]

no im saying that theres 2 different play montage nodes

[burnt citrus]

I use "Play Montage" of the actor BP

As you can see, montage is actually active, but animation won't play

[burnt citrus]

I use Play Montage

Because it's not character, but Gun

Anyone any idea?

Solved! I set back "Optimization setting" of Skeletal mesh to default and correctly play montages!

[civic sand]

Hi guys , anyone have any luck getting values from get control rotation ? I’m using both the pawn and controller types and getting zeros across the board.

[icy dragon]

So is there a way to partially load save game files to read minimal variable from them, without loading them all wholesale? Is having separate save game file containing the slot index and stats the way to go?

[maiden wadi]

As far as I'm aware, there's no way to pull only specific data from a SaveGame.

[earnest tangle]

Not in blueprint definitely. Might be possible in C++, if everything else fails at least using a custom file format

[mental swallow]

My via Blueprint constructed Object (Outer is AIController) seems to be garbage collected. Here is my setup.

How does Blueprint handle constructed Object not being garbage collected?

[white goblet]

Hi there, as many of you guys I looked in the Lyra example and see that the naming convention has changed. What can be seen is that the blueprint classes are now called B_ instead of BP_. Is this the new epic convention and how do you find it?

[tawdry surge]

Idk but your convention should be different from there's so it's easily identifiable what you made and what is from epic

[white goblet]

Identification is not the problem but if everyone is now changing to this new convention which I thought of as a standart to stick to epics conventions as much as possible

[tawdry surge]

@limber inlet there should be a comment about how to calculate direction in newer versions

[limber inlet]

sorry my bad

I watched the video in the comments but it is also outdated, but i didnt look at the comments on that video

[tawdry surge]

Identification is not the problem today. Anything you did more then 6 weeks ago might as well have been done by someone else, and if you ever work on it in a team setting it's important to make sure everyone is clear about what was made for the project and what wasn't.
Personally I put my convention at the end so that it organizes by the object name not the type, and it's enough to differentiate

[limber inlet]

I'll dig into that! I've literally spent hours searching!

[limber inlet]

Thanks!

[wraith cave]

I wrote a blueprint code that is suppose to reduce my character health by 1 when it's attacked by the chicken but i'm getting this error any idea why?

[tawdry surge]

The ref to your 3rd person character is null

[white goblet]

@wraith cave It is because once the chicken is dead maybe the function is still trying to access it but already being destroyed (null) and you still want to reduce health from it

[wraith cave]

what does it mean

[white goblet]

@wraith cave try branching or casting if he has more than 0 health and is not null

[wraith cave]

aah but i tried the same for my other game and it worked but there i had my own player pawn and here i used the ue5 thirdperson character

[tawdry surge]

Where is the reference to the 3rd person character being set?

It's telling you it's empty

[wraith cave]

im casting it when the chicken collision overlaps my player

[tawdry surge]

Is that the same line as the first screen shot?

[white goblet]

@tawdry surge maybe I wasnt clear enough before, what I mean with the naming conventions is in tutorials and and even in epics example projects everyone called Blueprint classes a BP and wrote it like this BP_MyClass. Now we see in Lyra that the blueprint classes are called just B_MyClass. And my question is if all developers switch to the new convention now.

[wraith cave]

like this?

[wraith cave]

yep

if this is visible

[tawdry surge]

Hmm.. that should be fine

[white goblet]

@wraith cave but you dont destroy the player but the triggeractor itself dont you?

[wraith cave]

Yep i destroy the actor (chicken) and -1 health of the player

[wraith cave]

lemme try

[tawdry surge]

Are there multiple chickens?

[wraith cave]

yep they spawn randomly in random times

[tawdry surge]

Any chance the player is dying between the overlap and the end of the .2 second delay?

[wraith cave]

Nopee it's not

[tawdry surge]

@white goblet I'm not dropping the p on my bp unless they made a new asset that fits it better, but I doubt it

[wraith cave]

just realised it doesn't even reduce my character health

[tawdry surge]

Well no it's saying it doesn't know what character

Can't hurt you if it doesn't know who you are

[wraith cave]

Aah but why doesn't it know why is it so dumb xD

Lemme try casting it again

ok what the hell dude just adding a new cast near the new event works

Moral : don't be lazy and use the same character cast

thank you @tawdry surge @white goblet

[tawdry surge]

Just promote the return from the first one to a variable if it was timing out some how

Casting is more expensive then saving the variable, plus it's easier to re-use later

[jolly island]

Hello, I have split my level into multiple streaming levels but I have problem where NPCs reset their variables etc when the level they are in gets loaded in and out. Is there a way to save the NPCs states or do they have to be in the persistent level?

[tawdry surge]

You can save the npc states to the game state and have the npc grab its data on spawn. Game instance also works, or save game object if you want it to persist between play sessions

[blazing pollen]

guys how to tell the transition to go to the next state when animation end

[tawdry surge]

Time remaining(ratio) <0.1

[night tartan]

From here how can I select a specific array element from a public var int ( ID ) inside all actors of class in the level?

[jolly island]

Thank you 🙂

[tawdry surge]

Pull off the array element pin -> get "ID"-> == ID you want-> branch

[vapid grotto]

how can i control depth of field for my character BP camera in BP, similar effect as the middle image

what parameter should be needed for foreground and background blur in-camera post process ? i found it cine camera easly by epic tutorial on DOF but not for normal player camera.

[quaint dagger]

Hoping someone is able to help solve this, probably something simple. I'm trying to attach a stationary actor to a another actor that moves via interaction. I've tried the below code but with no luck, any ideas where I'm going wrong?

[dreamy yacht]

guys

I have some small problem - making an arcade racer

but on the top left corner I have total race timer feature

and when there is less than 2 digits after coma

the blank space is visible

so for example: when the race lasts less than 1 minute, the engine displays 0 :26:13 instead of 00:26:13

when race duration breaks the 1 minute, then everything displays fine like: 01:26:13 or so

I think there is some option in widget settings, but I cannot find it

[tawdry surge]

On the node where you convert the values to text

There is an arrow for advanced options

Set minimum places to 2

@quaint dagger In a vacuum that should work. Are the two objects blocking each other or simulating physics?

[quaint dagger]

Neither are simulating physics, stationary objects are the elevator keys and the moving (interactable) is the elevator

[tawdry surge]

Oh, are the keys set to movable?

[quaint dagger]

Yeah they are all set to movable

[tawdry surge]

And the collision between their object types isn't set to blocking?

Last thing I can think is, are you sure the elevator up event is firing?

[quaint dagger]

Both events work, I have another elevator which does the same thing but with stationary buttons on either end.

[ornate dragon]

Hi. During EventAnyDamage I'm trying to cast Instigated By to PlayerController Blueprint and execute PC event. Issue arise during cast to PC_BP, it just fails. What could be the reason why the cast fails?

[tawdry surge]

The controller didn't instigate the damage. The pawn, character, or weapon most likely did

[dreamy yacht]

I use integer direclty

directly

I think you mean integer to float ( int -> float )

?

[tawdry surge]

@quaint dagger that's weird.. I'm not sure why else it wouldn't attach

[quaint dagger]

Ok no worries, thanks for trying anyway 👍

[tawdry surge]

@dreamy yacht nah where you put it on the screen

[dreamy yacht]

you mean widget ?

[tawdry surge]

Yeah

[tawdry surge]

Event graph

[ornate dragon]

Why does it shows Controller Object Reference?

[tawdry surge]

Or did you bind it?

[dreamy yacht]

yeah, I did

[tawdry surge]

Ok is there a binding function

@ornate dragon ah, then are you sure it's controlled by that controller class? And are you passing an input to the instigator pin on the apply damage event?

[ornate dragon]

Yeah the second part, I'm not passing it to ApplyDamage. Missed it completely. Thanks a lot.

[tawdry surge]

@dreamy yacht basically you need to find the code where you are setting the text on the count down text box so we can define the format

Idk if you can do it in the details of the box itself. Never tried

[dreamy yacht]

each value has it's own function as miliseconds / seconds / and minutes

but I don't know which node in settings is corresponding for visible number amount

[maiden wadi]

Just set this selected text's justification to right.

[dreamy yacht]

ok

[maiden wadi]

Unless you actually want the 00.

[dreamy yacht]

I've just spot this option

too

[lofty hound]

How do I get the move component to blueprint to move an actor backwards relative to the actors rotation ?

[solar sequoia]

not totally sure what you mean, but if you're trying to move an actor backwards, you can get its forward vector, multiply that by (-1), and that's its back vector

or maybe you're asking how to get the character movement component? if it's a character, you can just "get" it in the event graph

[dreamy yacht]

setting the justification for all three didn't solve the problem

[solar sequoia]

you should look at a horizontal box, or alternatively use a date time struct as input into one text box, rather than having multiple boxes

with the right settings, a horizontal box will remove excess space and move everything to whichever side you'd want it at

[rancid sorrel]

Hello, sorry to cut into the conversation but I have this issue that I was hoping somebody here could help me with. Currently my 'Was Input Key Just Pressed' node keeps returning false no matter what I do. Does somebody here know why this is happening?

[tawdry surge]

@dreamy yacht the "text to(integer)" in the above screen shot

Click the arrow at the bottom of the node and open the advanced settings

Set minimum places to 2

[limber parcel]

im having a little issue here, i got this tree but the generated collision mesh isnt useful for what im trying to do, so i added a cylinder attached to the mesh for collision purposes

problem is that the tree mesh and cylinder move independently

i tried adding a socket to the tree and attaching the cylinder but that changed nothing

[solar sequoia]

First I'd ask why not generate collision data for the tree mesh, and then modify that however you'd like

[limber parcel]

because i dont know how to do that and i basically only want to simulate the stem so it can fall over

but i dont want the branches to have collision

[solar sequoia]

right click on mesh -> generate collision. Pretty self-explanatory after that

[limber parcel]

so i just added a cylinder

[solar sequoia]

you can form it exactly how you'd want in collision data

[limber parcel]

how would i go about that?

do i just delete the shapes i dont want?

[dreamy yacht]

Great! That helped ! 🙂

[solar sequoia]

once you generate it's pretty self-evident. You just form the collision volumes in the editor

[dreamy yacht]

Thanks so much!

[solar sequoia]

yeah, pretty much

[limber parcel]

ok thx ill play around with that

[astral epoch]

So question on performance
How bad will it be to use "On See Pawn" and casting from it?
The thing I want to "see" is a squad pawn but will have a large number of characters attached to it that would also trigger the event.

[solar sequoia]

blueprint interface?