blueprint

[lean orchid]

what I meant was that whether there is a way to open the blueprint example in something and change the pointer there to the new thing or whatever

[near wolf]

Hello, I bought this helicopter blueprint from the marketplace, but the rotor animation is not working. Can someone help me?

[lean orchid]

ok i managed to open my base class now by changing its uasset name 😄

[lyric glade]

how do i get animation bp from ai action code?

[icy dragon]

What are you trying to do? Seem super jank

[lyric glade]

play animations when ai does stuff

[tawdry surge]

Normally you would use the task to set some variable in the ai BP and the animation BP should be pulling those values and using them to determine the animation output

[paper gate]

when i end prone while in moving prone , my character destroyed automatically

[gentle urchin]

This is not what destroys your character

[gentle urchin]

Define 'destroy' in this context anyway

[paper gate]

i dont want to destroy

[gentle urchin]

If you blend to some 0 anim. It'll ve invisible, sure

[paper gate]

it will destroy automatically

i test with this and it will become 0

[gentle urchin]

Then somewhere some script is saying "Destroy Actor"

And points to the player character

[paper gate]

no i didnt use destroy actor anywhere

[tawdry surge]

Or you are falling through the floor too close to the kill z of the level and just looks like an instant kill

That would be a funny edge case to hit tho

[paper gate]

yes i guess u correct

[paper gate]

tell me how to fix it

[gentle urchin]

Dont drop below killZ

[tawdry surge]

Well first id check your player location in the level and see if thats happening
It's a long shot possibility

[paper gate]

what ss u need tell

[gentle urchin]

Got a video of whats going on?

[paper gate]

wait giving

[gentle urchin]

Heh

You drop below

The floor

[grave venture]

So after creating an interface and adding it to the class setings of a blueprint and I've done this quite many times before and never had this issue
When I'm trying to drag this function in blueprint it says, the function was not marked as blueprint callable
what's up with that maybe anyone knows?

[paper gate]

but why it destroyed ?

[gentle urchin]

KillZ kills it

[paper gate]

ok so how to fix it

[gentle urchin]

Adjust the location before swapping capsule height

[gentle urchin]

A bp interface?

[grave venture]

Yes

The simplest

Create interface -> put it in another BP's class settings to use it

but what is this

like this icon

shouldn'

shouldn't it be like "F" written there 😄

and I can just drag and drop

[tawdry surge]

I just saw these in a project yesterday. Idk what they denote either and would be interested in knowing too

[gentle urchin]

Ill try in a min 😂 ue5.02?

[grave venture]

Yes

Weird thing is that this NEVER occurred

[near wolf]

I have a helicopter with rotor animations. But it only works on the default map and not in another maps. I think it's something with the blueprint. What could be the problem ?

[tawdry surge]

Where is the rotation happening?

[near wolf]

it starts once you click spacebar to go up

oh you mean where

This is the blueprint for the rotor

but Im not that advanced with blueprints and im stuck

[gentle urchin]

wrong pawn in different level ?

[near wolf]

no, im using the right one

[grave venture]

Also so you knew it's a very default BP interface 😄

[versed sun]

Did you set up Game Mode in your new level?

[near wolf]

Yes, the helicopter works, but the rotors are not starting to spin

[gentle urchin]

works like a charm

but cant drag and drop the interface directly, no

Not sure why really 😄

[tawdry surge]

Was the one in the default level already placed or did you place it?

[near wolf]

it's already placed, It's a helicopter blueprint that I bought from the unreal marketplace

but it only works on the provided map

[tawdry surge]

I'd look in the details of the one in the level. Sometimes they have different settings from the class

[gentle urchin]

yeah, instanced ones may differ

[near wolf]

yeah but what exactly ? The helicopter uses the same blueprints on different levels ?

[tawdry surge]

Is your current top rotator speed in particular different

0 means it won't spin

[near wolf]

when I change the number it starts spinning , but it just spins all the time with the same speed

it's not how it should be slowly then goes faster like in the default map

[gentle urchin]

sounds like it cant interpolate properly ?

[tawdry surge]

Ok so if setting that makes it spin, then my next step would be to see where that is being set in the blueprint and making sure it's still happening

I'm starting to suspect they did a dumb thing and tied it to the level BP somehow

[gentle urchin]

like using level bp to set the rot speed or smth

[near wolf]

there are no level blueprints

[tawdry surge]

Yes there are. whether it's used or not..

But ok so what is to the left of the branch?

[gentle urchin]

personally, i think this looks rather messy

but thats not relevant for the issue i guess 😛

[tawdry surge]

Haha it's always relevant
But you need to go inside the collapsed graph to see where your lerp values are coming from

[gentle urchin]

like,

wouldnt it be easier to keep track of rotator speed in the chopter_BP,

and just feed it directly to the anim bp ?

the fancy macro also throws me off

latent like that

[tawdry surge]

That's what it's doing, but it's not increasing the current max speed

B for the lerp

[gentle urchin]

Oh, is this in the chopter_bp ?

mb then

[near wolf]

This is what is inside the lerp node

[gentle urchin]

glad this wasnt confusing at all x)

whats it compensating for, since its not a regular lerp ?

[near wolf]

for me, it is lol

[gentle urchin]

i was ironic, its very confusing

overly confusing

[tawdry surge]

Someone thought too hard

But is that the lerp or the collapsed graph?

[gentle urchin]

yep

[tawdry surge]

Select value_2

[near wolf]

I also messaged the guy who created the blueprint and he told me this : This project is fully functional, you can assign your own Input, depending on your requirements. Well, in order to connect a blueprint to another map, you also need to have some technical knowledge. Another map is not related to the project, if you connect it correctly everything will work on any map

[gentle urchin]

just make sure you dont break it, because then you'll get literal float 4

for whatever reason

If done correctly, i'd say making a chopter work in any map shouldnt be more work than setting up the GameMode

[tawdry surge]

That's not a great answer.. "you need technical knowledge to make it work on a new map"

Makes me think he used the level BP somehow

[near wolf]

Hm I just noticed something interesting

[gentle urchin]

like..

[near wolf]

This is the default map

[gentle urchin]

along these lines

[near wolf]

where the helicopter works fine

But if I put the player start above the ground

The rotors stop working just like in the other map

so it's something related to the ground I guess

[tawdry surge]

I'd gut it and make something less dependent

[gentle urchin]

feeding RotorCurrentSpeed to the AnimBP -> Voila

you have a working start

assuming acceleration is linear, both ways

[tawdry surge]

Zero reason for the helicopter to care about the ground or the level or gamemode

[gentle urchin]

^ Exactly

[near wolf]

hmm

So I'm not very sure what to do now

I can try recreating that blueprint but I think something else will break

[gentle urchin]

Probably, really

[near wolf]

ffs why did this guy not make it work everywhere but just on his map

What about this

[gentle urchin]

Getting there

[near wolf]

I also notice that it's not just the rotor that is different, the handling and the moving of the helicopter also is different on both maps

[gentle urchin]

As MW suggested, check the variables

[lyric glade]

i click on the result but it leads me nowhere how can i fix it?

[grave venture]

So how do I do when I click the button with my third person character, It triggers something in another Blueprint

was trying with interface but can't pass it to "communicate" with another blueprint

idk

[trim matrix]

when possesing someone, the character freezes in air. (if i have jumped)This is a problem as I am making a multiplayer game

[near wolf]

Im checking them, but I'm not sure what could be wrong with them

I cna make the rotors spin, but it's not how it should be going from slow to fast

[trim matrix]

I am possesing a sort of drone on a keypress

[sinful marlin]

#work-in-progress For anyone wanting a tutorial on how to make a notification system in BP!

[tawdry surge]

I don't have time to watch that at the moment, so idk if it's good or not.. However from a marketing standpoint point, basically saying in the description "I'm still learning how to code but let me teach you" doesn't fill me with confidence

[tight schooner]

Is this a button in the level that opens a door / turns on a light /etc..?

Yeah the content examples are that all day

[grave venture]

It's just a Input - Q

[grave venture]

I mean I know how to do it with box collision and line trace (for example: open door, pickup item and so on)

But I was trying to JUST CLICK THE BUTTON and something happens (pushes the object, doesn't matter where im standing or looking or doing)

Just with a push of button (Q)

Didn't want to cast it, wanted to utilize it with an interface

[dusky crane]

I have multiple characters and each character has a customizable ability loadout. i want these loadouts to be saved so theyre the same when you restart the game.
my question here is, do i have a saveslot for every single character or do i just use a single saveslot that contains a map with the character's name and relevant data?

okay, thanks!

[shut escarp]

hello, when i do a cast my function gets called and works perfectly but if i set the player variable and try to call the drop weapon function using the saved variable it does not work and i get the accessed none error. am i doing something wrong? (this is being done in my player controller)

[subtle hatch]

is the variable global? if it is local variable, then it gets erased everytime the function exits

[shut escarp]

yeahh its global variable

[subtle hatch]

can you try to disconnect the line from the cast to the function DropWeapon

[fast finch]

no

thats what they are there for

[faint pasture]

.... have you tried it? Certainly it's faster than coming here to ask

[fast finch]

you cannot edit them

only read

and that is super fast

3000 row entries are not even alot

if you have a system this big tho

i advice you to look into sql

just for that final bit of power and accessibility

[shut escarp]

yeah i tried that , only when i have the line connected from the cast it works. but if i use the saved function i get accessed none. the cast does not fail either.

this is so weird lol

[rain egret]

at the start of my game i have, for debug purposes, a actor that instantly spawns, initializes and outfits a airship within a few seconds.
this causes a massive lag spike, is there any way to lower the lag? i already made a custom for-each macro that uses a delay.

[tight schooner]

@rain egret isn't game start the most acceptible time for lag? Otherwise put those objects into the level so that they're already there at map load. Or spread the work of spawning stuff over time.

Or make the lag more acceptible by having a discrete spawning phase at pre-game and fading in the view once everything is spawned

If the computer has to do that work no matter what, then be strategic about when it does it

It also depends on the source of lag. If it's a DX12 project and you're seeing stutters the first time certain things are presented (in play-as-standalone or packaged) then it's due to runtime shader compilation. My project has this issue with gpu particle systems, heh.

[rain egret]

its more that it has a lot of collision building to do

the ships are made at runtime from scratch

the shipyard first turns this mesh into a frame structure thats created procedurally. then each wall is made and attached.

[tight schooner]

Yeah sorry, I don't have experience with that. If you've narrowed down the laggy part of the process, I guess do it in advance in a strategic moment where the spike is less annoying

And then let the cosmetics happen afterward

You can construct the physics thing earlier then enable collisions on that component at the right time during the animation I guess

If the physics and the visual mesh are the same component then similar idea. Construct it with physics/visibility disabled in advance then enable that stuff later

[rain egret]

you think the lag purely comes from displaying the mesh? worth a try i will test it out

[tight schooner]

I can't say. Acc'd to you it comes from spawning it in the first place? If that's true then you have some control over where the lag spike occurs

Cuz you can spawn it invisibly, paying the toll, then do the animation afterward

[rain egret]

i solved it aaaaa

all it took was that for each with delay

now i can combine this with your solution of having it invisible until its all done and thatd work great

[sterile jacinth]

Hello folks! I have a problem with buoyancy. For some reason my character doesn't float on water when being ragdolled. I used the same skeletal mesh and added buoyancy to it, and it floats just fine. Anybody knows what is the possible issue here? Thanks in advance

[tight schooner]

@rain egret btw if you haven't yet, try "stat raw" in the console for a frametime graph

[trim matrix]

can someone help me out with this?
while im aiming this box collision rotate with my camera and when ever it collide with those actors "cubes" it store them in array?
how can i do that

[tight schooner]

Break the problem down. You need to make the collision component generate overlap events with the cubes. Use the overlap event to get the actor reference, check if it's one of the cubes, and "add unique" into your array.

[broken quiver]

how blueprint source control works in UE5?

like merging two different blueprints

[modest monolith]

fixed

[wanton prawn]

Does anybody know if .sav files created with a UE4 build of a game have compatibility issues with UE5 builds?

My game released using 4.25, and I upgraded the engine to 5.0 when it came out. But now it seems to be reading my settings save incorrectly, unless I delete and recreate it. I'm wondering if it's possible to establish backward compatibility for the sake of my players, or if I should just instruct them that their old saves are no longer compatible once I push an update.

Worth noting that this issue seems to only crop up in packaged builds. I've attempted to shove UE4 saves into the place that (I think) the editor puts its saves, but so far I've had no luck replicating it.

[trim matrix]

i used a begin overlap but he doesn't work correctly

[trim matrix]

and specially if i aim exactly at the cube

[tight schooner]

make sure both the world-cubes and your cube detector component are set to overlap each other's collision channels, and both are set to "generate overlap events"

[trim matrix]

but my cube doesn't have a box collision

[hazy fulcrum]

Does anybody have a method of getting the spring arm component to retract to the offset position and not to the component origin when it detects a collision?

I've been playing around with the settings and none of them seem to prevent the camera from retracting into my character's back whenever the spring arm hits something.

[gentle urchin]

Custom springarm

Or simply set its origin at the camera location

And point it towards the viewtarget

[hazy fulcrum]

So my 'fix' was to use two spring arm components, one parent for target length and one child with 0 length and just the desired offset, with the camera attached to the child.

Which kind of works, but feels really ghetto.

How would you go about setting up a custom spring arm?

[undone surge]

im trying to get a projectile to spawn in sky and hit a target area. i managed to get it to spawn directly on top of the target and come straight down but i want it to spawn a little sideways and hit in random places but within the target , how would i do that

[gentle urchin]

Id just reverse it tbh. A custom springarm would be a custom springarm component

With your own defined logic

[deep geyser]

Does anyone know a good algorithm for calculating which direction would fluid flow through a pipe network?

[faint pasture]

With math

Is it just simple projectile motion with no drag?

There's a suggest projectile velocity node, it can math for you

There might also be a suggest angle node

[undone surge]

yes its a simple one i have the velocity set and everythng

[faint pasture]

if you want a constant speed

[undone surge]

i just want it to start at and angle and land at a specific location

[faint pasture]

Do you want to change the SPEED to change the hit location or the angle?

[undone surge]

no i just want it to randomly hit a circle location in a random pattern like a shotgun spread

like this

[faint pasture]

So figure out the orientation to make it hit perfectly, then randomly pitch and yaw it a little bit

[undone surge]

one thing i was confused on is which node to use to orient the launch direction

on begin play

like i start a little away on x axis of hit location then after that how do i turn the launch orientation

towards the target

[faint pasture]

Already told you
https://docs.unrealengine.com/4.26/en-US/BlueprintAPI/Game/Components/ProjectileMovement/SuggestProjectileVelocity/

[undone surge]

ok thanks i will see this

[faint pasture]

Do that, then just rotate the output by a tiny random rotator and you'll get your spread

start with getting it to hit first

one problem at a time

[undone surge]

alright i got it

also i have a projectile movement component which has the speed

shouldi put this speed in suggest vel ?

or should i make that 0

and copy that value here

[faint pasture]

Yeah put the speed into launch speed

it'll tweak the angle of the resulting vector to make it hit (if it can, there can be impossible situations)

[deep geyser]

Does anyone know a good algorithm for calculating which direction would fluid flow through a pipe network?

I need something for a hydraulic simulation, where a system could be custom made, with levers to switch flow during gameplay

[faint pasture]

Ooh boy you asked the right guy

I'm working on an arbitrary flow network plugin

[deep geyser]

Lol wat 😂

[faint pasture]

You trying to switch flow or pressure?

[gentle urchin]

Adriel the flow guru

[faint pasture]

Like are you trying to have a bit of hose be ON/OFF or have a pressure or what

[deep geyser]

For now flow

I'm working on a prototype simulator for a school, so the functionality would be limited for it

If it kicks off, so will the complexity and budget

[faint pasture]

Give an example use case, what does an interaction with this system DO?

[undone surge]

thanks

[faint pasture]

I'm trying to suss out if you're talking about a full bidirectional effort/flow system, or something more analogous to light switches, or what

[deep geyser]

I'll contact you tomorrow, I have to go offline

[faint pasture]

KK
I haven't done the hydraulics system yet but this is the graph network solver thing I'm working on. Right now I just have the torque/rpm regimes made but it's trivial to extend to hydraulics or electronics or traffic or whatever.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Datugg_ZS3E

[flat coral]

Which sound function would you use for something that should travel with the player and isn't directional, but is in world space and so things like attenuation and echos might still apply?

For example, the engine sound for a car the player is inside

[faint pasture]

sound component

Spatialization distance is a setting on the sound attenuation settings

once you're close enough it's no longer directional

[stoic echo]

Hey, I've been looking for a proper way to set audio areas. Whenever i enter a box it plays a certain audio file (ambient music) and as soon as I leave it it shall play a different one.
I couldn't find myself a proper tutorial for that since I watched a few on youtube. If there's anyone who has done that before I'd be grateful if you'd help me out.

[zealous moth]

@stoic echo iirc you should use the same audio player. So when you overlap a new zone, make new song start at volume zero and increase with time as you decrease previous song to 0 and disable.

[stoic echo]

oh okay, I've watched a video about that which also mentioned the variable to "select track" whenever begin or end overlapping, is that correct?

which is a variable for track01 and track02 for example and it just stops the first track and starts the second one

[flat coral]

Okay so you know how the "Box" rendering of images lets you take a margin along the edges, consider that the border, and then the center is the only thing that stretches?
What are the odds Unreal has a tool like that, but for audio files?

I've got a lot of audio files that have a very clear starting, middle, and ending, and I want to loop them but i only want to loop the middle part

So like, play the beginning, play the middle on loop for X seconds, then play the ending

[faint pasture]

Audio volumes my dude

[stoic echo]

same, im a bit confused. also i am somehow not able to select the sound that should be played in the audio volume

[faint pasture]

I'm not sure. I haven't touched it for years

But if sound in an volume is what you're after, that seems like a sound volume

[faint pasture]

Maybe Ambient Zones are the thing nowadays.
https://docs.unrealengine.com/4.27/en-US/WorkingWithAudio/AmbientZones/

[pine trellis]

@faint pasture does it charge in your car with the car phone charger?

[faint pasture]

You need a charger with power delivery and the wattage the laptop needs. You aren't gonna charge it with any old USB-C charger.

[hazy fulcrum]

Bumping this as I'm still having the issue after trying to tackle it for the past few hours. I attempted to build a custom 'spring arm' using the player camera manager but I wasn't able to get the offset to remain in the same place as the character rotated around. Is there an 'accepted' way of accomplishing what I'm after?

[tranquil gorge]

Hey does anyone have a moment. Ive been working on creating a camera system for quite a bit now and i would love it if someone can be in chat with me and help me figure it out while i screen share if they feel they are capable. Would be much appreciated 🙂

[exotic warren]

Oi what stop yoinking my thing that i'm clever at

[austere ingot]

i have a config variable (loaded from a config file on a dedicated server) that contains a list of admin ids

works in editor to pull from the list, but no when compiled?

[raven pilot]

is there a way to disable input without disabling camera?

[jaunty summit]

deactivate camera + https://docs.unrealengine.com/5.0/en-US/BlueprintAPI/Input/DisableInput/

[raven pilot]

sorry i meant without*

finished audio prints?

seems like the event might be part of the problem

[jaunty summit]

Disable input doesn't disable camera. Does it?

[raven pilot]

it does : (

yea thats very strange, not sure why it doesnt print

[tawdry surge]

Only if you call it on the controller. If you call it on the character it shouldn't

[raven pilot]

i actually have a event set up on one of my nodes, its a bit similar

[tawdry surge]

Unless your camera code is in the character too

[raven pilot]

am using unreal default camera system i think

haha yea strange

not sure if it should skip a node like that

[raven pilot]

i call it from character after i cast to third person character

maybe there is an event limit? maybe try putting that event before the intialized_event

ahhh i see

[jaunty summit]

Yes. Then all your inputs are on the character. Then have the mouse input on the controller and call the disable on the character

I think this can be done in a more neat way using the Enhanced Input System

As you can load and unload mapping contexts

[raven pilot]

thanks for advice but am clueless on how to move mouse input on the controller

[raven pilot]

first time hearing of enhanced input

[jaunty summit]

AddControllerYawInput becomes AddYawInput

Same goes for Pitch

[jaunty summit]

https://docs.unrealengine.com/4.26/en-US/InteractiveExperiences/Input/EnhancedInput/

[raven pilot]

my camera inputs seems to already by on controller

[jaunty summit]

It's not

You can clearly see the names

Target is Pawn

[raven pilot]

oh kay

thanks

[raven pilot]

how do i change target?

i tried using get player controller node

[jaunty summit]

You go to the PlayerController class

And do the setup there

Same red nodes

Different blue nodes though

[jaunty summit]

As I said

[jaunty summit]

And you remove this

[raven pilot]

ohh okay, i cant read

[raven pilot]

how do i get there? is it in contents? i typed it in but couldnt find

[jaunty summit]

You simply open that class

Forget about the character class

Just leave it behind

And go to the PlayerController class

Find it in the content browser

Look for the one used by your GameMode. That's the one you should be looking for

[raven pilot]

kay

i think its thirdpersongamemode

[jaunty summit]

If it's a cpp PlayerController class, make a BP child of it

[raven pilot]

is it this?

[raven pilot]

kay

[jaunty summit]

Yes

It's cpp

[raven pilot]

k

[raven pilot]

i made blueprint child out of it

[jaunty summit]

[jaunty summit]

.

[raven pilot]

k

hmm

thanks

will try

@jaunty summit so i did it here and removed the one from old BP, but camera doesnt work now

[jaunty summit]

You don't need to specify a target

You already in PlayerController

[raven pilot]

i get this tho

do i need to switch to playcontroller somewhere?

[jaunty summit]

You are in the GameMode

Do you see?

[raven pilot]

this?

[jaunty summit]

Why did we make a BP PlayerController class if we are not going to use it

[jaunty summit]

Yes this is called the GameMode class

You need to do this in the PlayerController class you just created

[raven pilot]

i only have parent and child

gamemode

how would i change to player controller class?

[jaunty summit]

Oh thought this was a PlayerController class

Do you know how to make a BP PlayerController class?

[raven pilot]

do i do it here?

[jaunty summit]

Yes

[raven pilot]

k

[raven pilot]

i have the nodes in

not working, guessing i need to change gamemode or something?

[jaunty summit]

Nope

You need to make sure the GameMode is using it

[jaunty summit]

Here you do so

[raven pilot]

kay

what about my other movements?

[jaunty summit]

They stay in character

[raven pilot]

k

[jaunty summit]

By the way, is this a cpp project or BP only?

[raven pilot]

BP only, lol i cant code in cpp

can barley in BP

[raven pilot]

thanks it seems to be working btw

[potent bear]

I'm getting a blueprint runtime error, do any of you know how to fix it?

what I'm trying to do is this ( UPhysicsHandleComponent Result = GetOwner()->FindComponentByClass<UPhysicsHandleComponent>(); ) but in blueprints and I'm getting an error for some reason

[jaunty summit]

GetOwner is null

How do you do it in BP?

Provide info

[potent bear]

ok, give me a minute and I'll share the info

[potent bear]

I created a system that allows you to pick up any object that has a custom collision ( Grabber ) in C++, but I'm working with some people were when I updated the gitlab with my code, no one else was able to run it because they could not rebuild the project, so I'm making a Blueprints version of the code.

The problem I'm having is that because blueprints and C++ work a little bit differently I'm having a hard time figuring out how to translate it with ease, the code works fine, but the blueprint version is not working properly.

I'll send the code now with details on how they function, but the basics is simple, it has two functions, one is Grab and the other is Release

---

Problem 1.
I'm not sure why it's returning an event instead of a function

the one that works is the one on the right were the code was first implemented

[jaunty summit]

This is not a problem. Those are just symbols and this is how they look in cpp and BP

Your real issue is: How to convert cpp code to BP

[potent bear]

yea

I have the full code that I made, I'll send it here as a text file so that it will not clutter the chat

[jaunty summit]

Good. And this is how you share bp code: https://blueprintue.com/

[potent bear]

The header file is in the top, and the CPP is at the bottom, I separated them with a line of ( ------------ )

I'll send the blueprint one now

Function 1. (Grab)

https://blueprintue.com/blueprint/njij5kg-/

Function 2. (Release)

https://blueprintue.com/blueprint/h-esbjlt/

Function 3. (GetPhysicsHandle)

https://blueprintue.com/blueprint/ap2tpenf/

[pulsar path]

is there a way to make kind of a 'reverse function'? i think its commonly referred to as a hook in modding.
essentially just where i call a node in a blueprint, and then somewhere else (potentially in multiple locations) things are listening for that node to be called, and then they all go off. I heard you can do it with interfaces but i cant seem to figure it out

for instance i could have a node that is fired when my player shoots, and then an enemy could listen for that node call and do something with it, an ally could be listening for it, etc

[potent bear]

To end this, this code is a Scene Component called Grabber, and the scene component is attached to the camera of the player, on top of this, the character blueprint has a physics handle component. All this is topped with a a new trace channel called Grabber.

[jaunty summit]

I wouldn't really do GetOwner without checking if it's valid first

That way you can prevent such crashes too

[jaunty summit]

You do it with interfaces

[potent bear]

good news, there are no errors now, bad news is that it still will not pick up the objects

Old: https://blueprintue.com/blueprint/ap2tpenf/

Updated: https://blueprintue.com/blueprint/3mctffl7/

[jaunty summit]

Also why are you specifying a target if you are already there

Not saying this is the issue but why...

[thin panther]

Can also be done with event dispatchers

[potent bear]

because I'm pointing to the exact location of the object

[thin panther]

You basically fire a dispatcher and have separate things "subscribe" to that event

[jaunty summit]

Oh thought you were there already... my bad

But it's not any different from how it's implemented in cpp as I see

Not saying you should ignore it, but your friends not being able to rebuild the project isn't a good reason to do move it to BP

[potent bear]

I know, which is weird

[jaunty summit]

cpp is more performant, and you should stick to it

Especially that you're doing some tracing there as I saw

[jaunty summit]

Ah correct forgot about those

[jaunty summit]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEcoWGrF1Hg&ab_channel=MathewWadstein

[potent bear]

I know, if you want I can show you a video of what's happening with both the cpp and the blueprint version

[pulsar path]

i cant figure out using interfaces, dispatchers seem like what im looking for though

thats a good video series, will give that a watch

[jaunty summit]

I have to go to sleep sorry :((

[potent bear]

no problem, thanks anyway, you helped me solve some errors that I had, so thanks

[hasty sage]

Heya. Could anyone help me with a blueprint component question? Posting my unreal forum link here

https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/how-to-search-get-component-of-an-actor-from-a-blueprint-component-class-that-it-is-attached-to/595722

[blissful widget]

Not my thread, but pretty curious about this. Does anyone know how to make this nicer, aside from C++? https://www.reddit.com/r/unrealengine/comments/vq91ld/help_is_there_any_better_way_to_achieve_a/

[tight schooner]

Get components of class node?

[cloud citrus]

I have a texture sample "internal_ground_ao_texture" and AO
Im assuming AO goes into Ambient Occlusion
but what about the other one?

[gentle urchin]

A regular datatable does strike me as fitting for this

[gentle urchin]

#graphics

[blissful widget]

Yeah I thought so too, commented the same but there was another suggestion made too

The only thing about data tables is the API revolved around fetching rows (a struct?), while fetching exact cells is more tedious

[gentle urchin]

Fair. Could also just do a simple array but the lookup would be some math

(InputA*NumberOfColumns)+InputB

Not very nice to work with, but a simple editor util widget would solve that

[blissful widget]

If I cared about that particular function, I'd go DataTable + BP accessor for the struct itself, should just be 2 node calls then

Ha yeah that too, but with BP questions I'm reluctant to suggest mathy solutions. How would that work with adding new rows or columns?

[gentle urchin]

Dynamically?

New columns would update the NumberOfColumns value, so i'd bet on reading it somehow

Like.. can you read entries to an enum?

Probably not tho

Or you could take the length of the array

And sqrt it

[tight schooner]

Make a series of collision channels and collision profiles and do overlap tests on the door

Yeah idk, any approach is complicated on the inside so the stuff that matters is how you want to store the data for which element opens which door type, and how you want to retrieve it (probably a function that has an element type and door type enum inputs and a boolean output)

One way to pick an approach is to consider how much of a PITA would it be to add 3 more element types and 3 more door types

Picture the workflow for doing that

[gentle urchin]

Yepp thats definetly something to consider

[acoustic lava]

Are there any good recourses to setup gamemodes

I want to setup a basic deathmatch

[limber parcel]

whats PITA lol

i guess its not italian bread lol

https://tenor.com/view/pita-sour-cream-dip-dipping-yummy-delicious-gif-14571287

[gentle urchin]

Pain in the a*s

[tight schooner]

I could go for a quesadilla...

[solar bison]

does this print run after the loop is complete or somewhere in the middle?

[lime fulcrum]

parallel

they start at the same time

[solar bison]

yuck. so I hjave to drag out a pin after complete if iw ant sequential logic

well....that makes the sequence pin somewhat useless i guess

[lime fulcrum]

not rly

[solar bison]

then?

[lime fulcrum]

what do you need to achieve?=

[solar bison]

run the print after the loop is complete

[lime fulcrum]

pin it to COMPLETE

[solar bison]

foreach() {}
print(xyz)

[lime fulcrum]

COMPLETED

[solar bison]

.

[lime fulcrum]

😂

why would that be a problem?

[solar bison]

looks ugly, hard to read

[lime fulcrum]

well, I use to collapse nodes when it starts to become ugly as you say

way more organized and cleaner to follow

[solar bison]

thanks

[lime fulcrum]

np 🙂

[gentle urchin]

It doesnt to paralell

It does the loop first

As long as theres no latent nodes related to the loop exec

[lime fulcrum]

yeah but then immediately goes down

[gentle urchin]

That it does. During the same frame

[lime fulcrum]

yah 😄 sorry I didn't explain that detail xD

[paper galleon]

Sequence just helps to organise code. It's not an automatic parallel node. Hence the name sequence. Each then branch completes execution before moving to the next. Unless there's an async node as Squize pointed out.

[icy dragon]

It's not parallel but ignores latent nodes in between

[gentle urchin]

Using functions over a low ball also tends to help with the organisation of the code

And eases readability

And saves you trouble down the road

[solar bison]

how to check if a value is null in bp

nvm

[pine trellis]

is there a special way to delete folders in unreal engine through the editor? I try to delete but it never goes away

[limber parcel]

unreal be like

[gentle urchin]

Sounds like you have some redirects or files that has not been completely deleted

[limber parcel]

https://tenor.com/view/garbage-truck-fail-litter-trash-throw-gif-4989540

[gentle urchin]

If you know theres nothing there you can always force it in explorer

At your own risk, ofcourse

[limber parcel]

after u move files u have to delete folders manually

also never do shit like that in explorer

[gentle urchin]

Theres no option to it

[pine trellis]

@limber parcel I cant delete it from unreal

[gentle urchin]

Ones files are 'stuck' in the folder.

[limber parcel]

restart unreal and try again

[gentle urchin]

No bueno

[limber parcel]

pizdec.

[gentle urchin]

Soo just do it in the explorer :p

Once youve fixed your redirects and made sure theres nothing left

[pine trellis]

ok...

[limber parcel]

https://tenor.com/view/this-is-fine-fire-coffee-dog-gif-10959043

[gentle urchin]

Fix redirects by right clicking the folder :p

Should calm the fire

[limber parcel]

https://tenor.com/view/unreal-shader-confused-unreal4-unreal-engine-gif-15378565

[solar bison]

i don't see events i can bind to for my button, why?

[limber parcel]

you are drunk comrade

https://tenor.com/view/stalin-meme-ussr-welcome-gif-18408345

[solar bison]

coz my button wasn't a variable

noob

😛

[gentle urchin]

So you unticked it yourself? 😅

I think its default as a variable 😄

[limber parcel]

https://tenor.com/view/the-simpsons-homer-simpson-good-bye-bye-no-gif-5173989

[solar bison]

yes XD

[gentle urchin]

Did your project crash, or did it work out? 😅

[limber parcel]

https://tenor.com/view/кгбфсб-gif-22598378

[rose gull]

Is there a way to run axis mappings only once? Im having my leaning system on axis mapping using a timeline and the timeline keeps playing, is there a way i can make it work such as only when the value of axis changes to smth it runs the timeline

[tawdry surge]

Make a branch save the axis value to a variable and check if the new one is not equal to the saved one. But you're better off with one of the interp to nodes

[trim matrix]

I want my character to ragdoll and it does, but it's in tpose. I have the physics asset and everything.

nvm

i had to change the mesh collision type to ragdoll

[rose gull]

Ah im gonna try that thnx

[trim matrix]

Hello Guys I'm pretty new to UE and I had a quick question/Problem. When I added a full auto system to my gun, it allowed me to skip my reload animation and it will fully reload my weapon. Any fixes so that my gun stops firing when I click my reload button and forces the animation to play? This only occurs when I added the full auto system, without that part of the blueprint, my gun forces the reload animation just fine.

maybe don't allow to reload when firing?

I tried that but for some reason that piece of blueprints on the bottom just ignore it

as long as i remain holding down the shoot button, then I can override any checks

For example I'm not supposed to be able to shoot and sprint but it allows me to as long as I'm holding down the button

[tawdry surge]

Because you need to trigger stop firing when reload is hit

Then if you try to fire again it will hit your checks

[trim matrix]

I didnt even think about that thank you so much!

[trim matrix]

I just implemented the piece of code and Jesus man I've been looking for hours with no help until now. You're a life saver!!!! Works perfectly

[tawdry surge]

Nice

[gentle urchin]

Not just stop i guess? Block aswell i'd think

so you cant start shooting while reloading

e.g. gun is in an "unfireable state" , just like when you run out of ammo

[limber parcel]

shroedingers gun

[gentle urchin]

Thats only during pickup, with an unknown mag :p

[dry condor]

you dont know if it shoots until you pull the trigger, genius 😄

[limber parcel]

https://tenor.com/view/cat-grin-smile-smirk-awkward-gif-22382508

[forest sable]

Greetings, I have a question...
What if the BluePrint system could generate any kind of code for any kind of programing language, just with the click of a button ?!

Well that's what I build in this project https://github.com/Sheriff99yt/Vision_Visual_Scripting

[blissful widget]

Your thesis is a tiny bit more ambitious than mine haha

[forest sable]

Tell me about yours

[blissful widget]

I think you really want lots of examples there, and a list of languages it does transpile to. Unclear if it's just Python at the moment. Congrats for writing your thesis though!

OT, I'll post in #lounge

[forest sable]

Thanks ❤️

[lime fulcrum]

Hi!
What was that parameter in Character Movement to make the character NOT stop immediately as it is not walking

Like an inertial effect... I can't remember which one was it :\

[blissful widget]

BrakingFriction?

[lime fulcrum]

I did set that to 0 but I Think the AI is just moving the character by changing location :\

[blissful widget]

Sorry, BrakingDecelerationWalking maybe then

[lime fulcrum]

Did that as well

[blissful widget]

And GroundFriction?

[lime fulcrum]

all 0

[manic geode]

How do I add this?

[lime fulcrum]

hold 3 + LEft click

It's Vector3

[prime stump]

Hi, can anyone tell me why this scroll box is being a freak? If I have it in the Horizontal box that its nested in, it just doesn't show in game at all for some reason so i have no settings, but if i have that Horizontal Box as a Vertical Box, it shows in game but the scroll box doesn't work at all.. why would it completely disappear in game with a horizontal box but I can see it in the editor just fine?

[manic geode]

Thanks 🙂 It worked

And how do I add those ?

[prime stump]

Hold 1 and left click

[blissful widget]

@lime fulcrum I wonder if you're after Add Force instead of Add Input Vector, in addition to Physics Simulation on the character's root component

[lime fulcrum]

@blissful widget I'm trying to use the Charachter class with AI Controller and move the character

it does move and follows the behavior tree but when it stops it's just instant stop

[gritty plover]

Hey, anybody know why the comment "bubble" option is unchecked by default every time I make a comment in BPs, despite showing that it should be checked by default?

[manic geode]

Worked thanks 🙂

And where are the anchors in UE5?

thats in UI blueprint

[cedar sparrow]

how come for the paragon character assets, all of their controls and locomotion are in their character BP and not the player controller BP? is that not what a player controller is for?

[mossy perch]

Trying to get the game to login when Gamemode is launched.
Somehow i manage to login, but also not according to my checks

It fails on creating the session (ue5.0.2)

[gentle urchin]

Imagine handling those custom locomotion setups from a single location.. would be pretty horrible

[velvet viper]

Hi all! Hope everyone is alright,
I've got a pretty specific but straightforward problem which is doing my head in for some reason
Essentially I want to trace along a plane/wall to get the edge point clamped by the volume bounds (imagine i've got a middle point of a wall, and I want to get the edge point)
Hope the images can make it a bit clearer!
Any help would be greatly appreciated, cheers

[cedar sparrow]

That makes sense I guess

[gentle urchin]

Id probably let the building hold some socket data that can be used to find nearest

Otherwise youd need to trace in multiple directions to find nearest corner, would you not ?

[desert juniper]

here's a talk on how dying light figured out their parkour.
has a really good talk about climbing ledges, buildings, etc
though it's not the answer you're looking for atm, I'm sure it'll come in handy in the future
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uikbLyi-cug

otherwise, what about doing multiple traces, and figuring out which is the highest point

[junior hedge]

hi, I want to do this but I have no idea how I could do it. I have an array string [0] that has a text body in it, and I want to send that data to another array but instead of 1 data I want every letter to be it's own "section" of the array, including spaces

[desert juniper]

i think there's a cone trace

[gentle urchin]

"Section"?

[desert juniper]

if building has a ledge rather than a straight vertical wall. you're going to run into an issue where the straight vertical trace won't work as you expected

[junior hedge]

[0] is one section [1] is another [2] etc idk how to phrase

[gentle urchin]

Ah

Theres a string to array node

Which gets each letter of the string in array format

[cedar sparrow]

Has anyone had a problem with the Murdock Paragon asset? He's the only one whose running animation freezes when he reaches max speed. Every other character has worked fine

[gentle urchin]

ParseToArray

[junior hedge]

like this?

how would I specify if I want only the letters to be assigned

into different "section"

[gentle urchin]

Not "get"

[desert juniper]

the dying light talk i linked actually talked about sockets and different actors to determine the areas that were climbable/grappleable. but after just a short period they had thousands of these manually placed sockets, and were expecting to do tens of thousands more. so they instead went for a more procedural method

[gentle urchin]

Makes sense

I went for pure traces myself

[junior hedge]

ok so this kinda works but it only splits into words

[desert juniper]

one of those that you don't fully know/undersatand until you try it yourself I assume

[junior hedge]

I want it split into letters

[junior hedge]

what to use then

[gentle urchin]

Just parse to array

I think

Hmm

No

Thats not it

Ah

GetCharacterArray

Thats the one

https://docs.unrealengine.com/4.26/en-US/BlueprintAPI/Utilities/String/GetCharacterArrayfromString/

[gentle urchin]

Yeah true that. Id imagine for these type of buildings it shouldnt be to much work tho. Could generate the sockets dynamically aswell

[junior hedge]

I tried this and got an error

[blissful widget]

I always wonder that with skeletal meshes, can you programatically get the bounds? EG spawn something at the top or bottom of a character, without a socket or scene component.

[gentle urchin]

Try setting it to a different array

Shouldnt matter tho

What error you got?

"An error" is not very descriptive :p

[junior hedge]

nothing was assigned

I was able to do this

T.h.i.s. .i.s. .a. .t.e.s.t

but idk if it is a smart way to go about things

[gentle urchin]

Get character array from string should work..

[gentle urchin]

The array is empty

[junior hedge]

ik

[gentle urchin]

Try a make literal string

Instead

To test the node :)

[junior hedge]

make literal string?

[gentle urchin]

Just

[junior hedge]

I tried this it errors

[gentle urchin]

Type a test string

In the make literal string node

Unplug the get

[junior hedge]

Upe?

[gentle urchin]

Phone, one hand, glueing plastics. Pardon my typos

[junior hedge]

you're fine

I cannot plug the array into the make literal string without the get

oh

i see what you mean now

[gentle urchin]

Ignore the array for now 😄

[junior hedge]

it works now

prints first letter

so intended

[gentle urchin]

Verify that it works with a space aswell

[junior hedge]

I did

it odes

does

[gentle urchin]

Goodie

[junior hedge]

ik the reasdon

when I was getting the array I accidently plugged in the wrong variable (at the beginning)

appreciate the help

how do i create the break?

[blissful widget]

Plug something into the exec pin? Or do you mean break the element?

[junior hedge]

oh I thought break meant like delay

[blissful widget]

Nah break in this case means stop iteration, I believe

[dry condor]

break is a condition under which the loop stops executing

[junior hedge]

I tried converting it into a text bind with a boolean so it stops after 1 time but its only printing T in console and the text isnt showing at all

this works with event construct

[young frost]

Using dot product, can I find out if I am in the left or right side of a box?

[blissful widget]

No, it's a vector similarity score sorta

[young frost]

What if I use two both foward vector and right vector

Forward*

[tawdry surge]

You can get relative position to the box and that will tell you if you are left or right of the root

[trim matrix]

Hi, I have this rope plugin in my game that does not respond to raycasts, but consists of individual particles that make up each segment and I'm trying to spawn sphere collisions along each segment in order to collect collision data like I have represented by the sphere traces in the video above. I've made a few attempts with no success, I reached out to the creator of the plugin who originally suggested this solution to me in the first place, but has not elaborated with me further.

Heres what I have atm the spline point vectors normally plug into a multipsheretrace node, as shown in the video above. but with the bp now it only renders one point at the very start of the rope.

[lilac storm]

Hey , is it possible to use FindLookAtRotation() to find right or up look at rotation not only forward ?

[near wolf]

to the guys that were helping me with the helicopter yesterday ... I found the issue and it got fixed with just ONE single click

god damn, I love when I spend 2 days on a issue that get's fixed with a single click

[gentle urchin]

Then you can, yes

[gentle urchin]

What was the click?

[near wolf]

This need to be turned on

on the ground

[tawdry surge]

@lilac storm no. Find look at rotation always assumes that you want the rotation to make forward x look at the target

[near wolf]

how can I make this work only on button press

what I mean is right now I have an input that works for both vehicle and character. But I want the free look to be available only when you hold a button for the vehicle

[gentle urchin]

Sounds like something the pawn should control

[near wolf]

right now when rotating the mouse, my vehicle rotates, but the camera also rotates around the vehicle

I want to make on of them activate with a button

[spark steppe]

add a button event which either opens/closes a gate which you use in the axis event, or which sets a bool that you check in the axis event

@near wolf

[near wolf]

Something like this ?

Im not very advanced with blueprints, most of the things I try is trial and error haha

[spark steppe]

close but not quite yet there 😄

in the q event only set/unset the bool (do nothing else, dont connect it to you camera setting stuff)

in the axis events add a branch to both at the beginning, which check the bool value

so only execute the camera rotation if the freelook bool is true

[near wolf]

Right now my camera keeps spinning around the heli

So something is not right 😄

[junior hedge]

is there no way to get a delay inside a function? (for loop)

[lilac storm]

Hey i got a missile which launches from ground to hit targets in the air . I got direction vector (Target.location - Missile.Location) , but i want missile to rotate as this vector , How i can make it ? here is my "great" illustration of what i want

[near wolf]

Ok, I did some progress my camera rotates on button press, but doesn't stop

[junior hedge]

show

[tawdry surge]

@lilac storm so just rotate the missle mesh to be fired along its forward vector and then you can use find look at rotation()

[verbal pagoda]

Hi. Having some issue with using aim space in UE5, pretty standard setup from UE4 tutorials (didn't work when I tried to do it when using bone rotation either while aiming, only without aiming)
When I'm actually aiming my entire character gets rotated, instead of it using the aim space additive animation. Anyone know where to start debugging that kind of issue?

[gentle urchin]

functions cant be latent, so no

[junior hedge]

you could do a flip flop to set to false or you could have a boolean checking the mode if i understand you correctly

[spark steppe]

i said only connect the set bool on button press, nothing else

you still have your camera settings attached

[verbal pagoda]

Maybe someone will recognize the great aim walk 😄 I'm kinda clueless at this point, tried like 50 things to fix.

[blissful widget]

You're rotating the character I'm guessing, on the wrong axes

[verbal pagoda]

I do this, but without that it doesn't turn at all. I thought the aim space would apply that rotation only to it's own input information.

[near wolf]

like this ?

[spark steppe]

-.-

are you kidding me?

[near wolf]

why would I be kidding ? I said im not advanced with blueprints, Im still learning

I don't understand everything

[spark steppe]

then copy the set free look node and connect the copy to the released event of your button and unmark the checkbox

then show a screenshot again of what you have right now... doing one step a time xD

[spark steppe]

now drag the free look variable from your variable list on the left in the blueprint and pick get

and connect it to the input of the branch

and show another screenshot then xD

[near wolf]

Done, what's next

[spark steppe]

show it

[near wolf]

Im not that bad 😄

[spark steppe]

now connect the true output of the branch to where you set the camera rotation

and copy the branch/variable get to the other axis, too

[junior hedge]

this works until I put the delay then it only does the loop once, this is called on event construct

[surreal peak]

You can't put a delay into a for loop

[near wolf]

I did

[junior hedge]

any other way I can do what I want to do?

[spark steppe]

show 😄

[spark steppe]

ok

now, does it work as expected?

[near wolf]

no, nothing happens

[surreal peak]

I think you can make your own Makro with a delay, but I never did that.
The more manual way is simply keeping track of the index yourself, getting the element by hand from the array, increasing the index and checking if the index is still in bounds of the array and then calling whatever function does all of that with a timer or a delay at the end

[near wolf]

I wanna have Q rotate the camera to the left and E rotate to the right

but Q is still not working

[spark steppe]

what the heck

i thought you want free look only to happen when a button is pressed

if you hold down Q you should be able to freelook now

[near wolf]

you mean with the mouse ?

[junior hedge]

is there a node to check if the array is out of bounds?

[spark steppe]

yes

hold q and move the mouse

[surreal peak]

So basically:

EventDoStuff -> Get array element -> Increase Index -> Check if Index is valid -> If true set timer to call EventDoStuff

[blissful widget]

Yeah, Get. The true is... Dangerous

[near wolf]

Ok I found a node that I haven't connected

[surreal peak]

You can just use IsValidIndex in this case

[near wolf]

it works now

[surreal peak]

I exposed that sometime during UE4 days

[near wolf]

I can free look with the mouse, but it also keeps rotating ot the left

when holding Q

[surreal peak]

No

On the array

It's context sensitive

And you need to keep track of the index as a variable yourself

[surreal peak]

Can't you just use control rotation for the free look?

Then you only need to hook up each of the two axis events with either AddControlInputYaw and AddControlInputPitch

And guard them with the boolean like you already do

Your spring arm then needs to be set to use control yaw and pitch

And that should be all

But maybe I'm missing more info about your setup

[near wolf]

I think It works fine now, the only small issue is that when free looking, the helicopter also slowly turns to the side

but Ill try to fix that

thanks anyway

[junior hedge]

@surreal peak it is printing false

i dont get what you mean

[surreal peak]

IsValidIndex is an Array function, similar to the GET node you already have.

Whatever you have there in your screenshot is wrong

[gentle urchin]

the macro with a delay is probably the easiest solution

😛

[limber parcel]

consider other type of loop

i literally made a foreach loop with break that restarts itself like some retard lol

obviously its not optimal but at least it worked lol

[gentle urchin]

Delayed one is easy enough tho

or rather

external continoum

[limber parcel]

yeah u can also make custom loop with delay

some indian guy made tutorial for it iirc

[gentle urchin]

I should have a project just for these macros and functions lol

[surreal peak]

*Plugin

[gentle urchin]

^^ yes

[surreal peak]

But it's probably also not wrong to understand how to hook up some simple timer, Get and IsValidIndex Nodes.

[gentle urchin]

very true

understanding whats going on and why is key

[junior hedge]

worked btw forgot to say

[fair dove]

Hey guys, I have a c++ class that is a child of ACharacter, and it has a TriggerVolume that I added to it. I then created a blueprint class based on the c++ class. When I drag it and place it on the map everything looks good but the TriggerVolume is always at 0, 0, 0. Is there a way to make it in the same location as everything else (the capsule component etc) ?

One one the left is the triggervolume

And when I move around the bp i placed on map with the arrows the trigger volume doesn't follow, i have to move it manually

[surreal peak]

That's a #cpp question and it's probably cause you didn't call SetupAttachment on the trigger volumne component

[fair dove]

Thanks cedric, i'll check that first and if not i'll post in the cpp section

yeah that was it lol, thanks again

[undone surge]

is there a node or function which gives u an output based on given probability or chance ? i want a zombie to drop items based on a propability. is therea node for it or do i do it manually

[surreal peak]

WeightedBool or so

Random Bool with Weight

[undone surge]

so this is 50 % ?

if its 0,5

[surreal peak]

Yes

[undone surge]

ok thanks

[surreal peak]

I wonder if I can somehow find out when that node was added

Ha, found it

I knew my wife PR'd it :D

https://github.com/EpicGames/UnrealEngine/pull/2269

Man the amount of shit comments on these PRs sometimes

Damn 6 years ago. time flies

[blissful widget]

Bruh, first line is just "Your code is bad." Ok dweeb, great way to provide feedback

[surreal peak]

Yeah, I mean it probably wasn't good, she was still learning. But yeah, those comments are often awful.

What I dislike the most is this "Just make it a free plugin"

That's the whole reason people have to install 5+ plugins to get decent amount of nodes in UE that should be available from the start

[blissful widget]

Even if the code is bad, starting like that just gets your feedback ignored or twisted because they get defensive from there on. Providing cold, hard technical feedback pointing out significant issues is 100x better than that still

[dry condor]

yeah but those trolls dont have that knoledge 99% of the time

[surreal peak]

The comment from danroconnor is probably the best

Being open to the idea

And posting exact steps to make the PR go through

[obsidian coral]

but he was right, and did provide feedback. I think your reading that negatively, when they probably meant it more literal.

[icy dragon]

The thread reeks Stack Overflow

[icy dragon]

Yeah, sure, they didn't cuss, but kinda passed off as being a jerk.

If it could've been worded better, why not?

Something like

There's a mistake on the formula

Is that so hard?

[thin panther]

if there is a way you can be more constructive, you should be if your intention is to help

[blissful widget]

Nah bud, especially in non-face to face communication it pays to be less confrontational. I've been through good and bad programming cultures, and that wouldn't fly in the good ones.

Show, don't tell. If there's issues point them out, and don't lead with something that might make someone defensive, ever.

[icy dragon]

Attitude like those are just discouraging newcomers and beginners to learn, because they know they'll thrown shit as if they already know everything and it's a stupid blunder

I know it's hard to be constructive.

[covert bough]

Is there any way to programmatically adjust the GroundRadius of a SkyAtmosphere component in BP, or cpp for that matter? Im currently doing this in BP. Im trying to procedurally generate planets, this includes generating their radius, however, whether pre-adding the SkyAtmosphere component or adding it in the construction script, I cant find any way to set its Ground Radius. In UE5 btw.

[obsidian coral]

I disagree about any attitude to be frank, like i said i take his as a literal wording, and not an aggressive one, as in the code does not function as intended(i.e: it's bad/broken).

[surreal peak]

I didn't want to kick off a discussion here

:D I was just curious cause I remembered her being annoyed the node doesn't exist

[thin panther]

again its still not constructive to just say that though, as a beginner whats gonna help you correct bad practices, being pointed out what you did wrong where, or being told "This is terrible"

[icy dragon]

Likely Ground Radius is not exposed.

[thin panther]

the latter doesnt give you anything ot go in in terms of improvement

a lot more likely to result in someone shutting down on the matter

[lavish tusk]

Hey! I'm trying to make a base class for a trap actor. Part of the class is a "trigger" that sets off the trap if the player overlaps it, and the other part is the "killer" that moves as a projectile when the trigger is activated. Then, when the player is respawned, I want the trap to go back to its initial location. My problem is that I want to use "projectilemovement", but it appears that component can only be activated once per instance of an actor, so when its position is reset when the player respawns, it can't be activated again. I tried to work around this by destroying and respawning the actor completely, but I want things to be changed in the level in the instance of the actor, which isn't accounted for in the "spawn actor" node. Thanks in advance and let me know if anything needs to be clarified!

[versed sun]

My first thought for a work around is:
If you use level streaming , you have premade levels each with different sized Ground Radius. Then when you make the planet, load the level with the closest sized Ground Radius

[surreal peak]

I think it simply resets the updated component

You should be able to set that back to the root of the projectile

That should make it work a second time

You can def activate projectiles more than once if you set the updated component

I think stop movement nulls it

Caught me off guard before too

[lavish tusk]

ohh definitely never saw this node before! so if I intend to do use that same projectilemovement node twice, then "target" and "new updated component" inputs would both take projectile movement component?

[covert bough]

@versed sun hmm, yeah, that could work, though that would drastically limit the range of planets i could generate, right now, depending on the planet type, im generating them anywhere from from 10 to 2000 km diameter

i dont want to have to create 1990 streaming levels 🙂

[surreal peak]

Updated component is the root of the actor usually

There is also interpolated component which is usually the mesh but that's more for network games

[versed sun]

Yah, no clue on your scale of what you can see, but you could just load the Ground Radius Levels for just planets in range, and unload them when you cant even see it

[lavish tusk]

i see. ok I'll play around with the node and report back. Thanks!

[surreal peak]

Your best bet is to check if the actor has the variable somewhat exposed to public in cpp

[covert bough]

ah, yeah, may give that a shot

[surreal peak]

By checking the header

And if so expose it to BPs yourself

Or at least protected then you could make a CPP child of it and use that for your BP spheres

Or skyatmosphere or what it was

[covert bough]

@surreal peak ill check that too

https://github.com/EpicGames/UnrealEngine/blob/46544fa5e0aa9e6740c19b44b0628b72e7bbd5ce/Engine/Source/Runtime/Engine/Classes/Components/SkyAtmosphereComponent.h#L58-L59

[lavish tusk]

so I tried this, but still couldn't activate my movement component again. Thoughts?

[covert bough]

@surreal peak is there a guide somewhere on how to set up a dev env to start making engine code changes like that?

i assume this? https://docs.unrealengine.com/5.0/en-US/setting-up-your-development-environment-for-cplusplus-in-unreal-engine/

[spring jolt]

First time posting to this thread. I just tried converting my project that was mainly developed in UE4.26 to UE5.0.2, and I hit a critical issue right off the bat. My character movement is skipping/lagging and I can't understand why. Has anyone heard of/dealt with this issue before? I'm not getting any errors in my Player Controller, where movement is implemented. You can check the video here to see the issue: https://youtu.be/V9ZL21_ZScI

[plain plaza]

I have a widget Blueprint for a Button that is calling onClick a Event Dispatcher. I added multiple of those widgets to my mainmenu widget. I want to know what button is pressed so i loop over all buttons to check who triggers the event. Unfortunately i always get the last index as output. Can someone help? Iam sure there must be a better solution 😦 Iam pretty new to ue.

[versed sun]

Add a Reference to the button on your event dispatcher

[feral cairn]

hi, been looking at this error for while now... i dont understand what it means, been looking through my blue prints for a while. the pick up will only wokr if i move item by knocking it

leads to this ;/

[spring jolt]

This is the character movement code in my Player Controller BP.

[tawdry surge]

@feral cairn use that branch above the hit result node and check if you hit something before trying to access it

[feral cairn]

ok thanks

[astral stratus]

quick question how did everyone learn blueprints so well? found myself stuck in tutorial hell, Bought a course on udemy to help me and I also bought a 600 page book on unreal engine blueprints and making small games. Am i going the right way now?

[feral cairn]

im still at beginning and watching youtube lmao thats my goto for now xD

[astral stratus]

yeah i dont feel like thats going well for me id like to do things on my own so i took this step

[feral cairn]

to be fair its causing me issues doing so.... so im at the point on trial and error

[astral stratus]

hence why im on the road to break out of tutorial hell. Goodluck though!

[feral cairn]

thx gl to you to

[blissful widget]

BP is just visual programming. If you can program, you have a head start. Aside from that, just practice till you intuitively know how to approach things

[feral cairn]

;p the only thing i done related to blue prints is skratch xD

but that was when i was in school

[tawdry surge]

It's the same process
Identify a problem you wanna solve-> break it into tiny steps->work from the beginning forward

[astral stratus]

👍

[mental trellis]

You'd be better off learning how to program and then applying that logic to BP - it'll be more help than watching a tutorial on making a gun and not knowing why things are happening.

A lot of the issues newcomers to BP make are because they don't understand the basics of OOP.

[astral stratus]

@mental trellis im on that road right now.

[mental trellis]

Good luck then!

[astral stratus]

thank you

[tawdry surge]

Any of my game dev students who have no coding experience, I usually assign the cs50 series from harvard on youtube. It covers all the basic stuff really well

[late tusk]

Anyone know if there's On selection changed event, I can use in a Editor Utility Widget, or do I have to run a check in the Tick event ?

[winged sentinel]

Hi would anyone know what I’d have to figure out to fix these red pins? These are on a custom c++ node

[mental trellis]

One made with UFUNCTION or an actual custom k2 node?

[brave grove]

try to compile your code again and refresh if u have made it with UFUNCTION.

Hi does anyone know what would be the reason why my plugins components keeps on unloading from the blueprint when I restart my editor. Currently happing with my motion warping plugin.

[winged sentinel]

A UFUNCTION

[winged sentinel]

Will try thank you

[junior hedge]

I watched one hour and 30 minutes of a yt course for the basics then just asked questions if I didn't get something

I still don't know about macros and stuff but yeah

I'm learning alot even now

but I was able to create a very big project (couldn't finish due to no modeling experience) in about a week while learning MANY things and implementing them into the project

[tawdry surge]

If you made a "very big project" in a week as your first attempt, I would bet that it wasn't structured well and would probably be hard to scale, modify, or reuse..
Stick to small single player projects till you're comfortable with the basics of oop and BP communications, then move on to larger projects.
Jumping straight into the deep end rarely speeds up the learning process

[junior hedge]

its not the new call of duty its just a fnaf fangame lol

[warped niche]

Hey there! Do any of you guys know of any super introductory courses or resources for blueprints that actually show you the fundamentals of it? I find I just find tutorials and I come out not understanding any of it any better at all

[desert juniper]

no prior programming experience?

unreal has some courses here https://dev.epicgames.com/community/learning?application=unreal_engine

besides that, there's this one https://learn.unrealengine.com/course/2436619?r=False&ts=637924833849431427

[warped niche]

Pretty much 0. Started a c++ course over the weekend but honestly it might as well be Latin

[warped niche]

I really appreciate it

[desert juniper]

and it stay latin.
C++ is incredibly tough to learn if it's your first language

BP will be a much better introduction 🙂

[mental trellis]

Your efforts are void!

Is is that void*?!

[desert juniper]

it be &void believe it or not 😉

[mental trellis]

Your efforts are null(ptr) &void!

[warped niche]

Might try python first?

As a first proper coding language I mean

[desert juniper]

no. it's night and day from C++

this is a much lighter approach to learning to program
http://rbwhitaker.wikidot.com/c-sharp-tutorials

[junior hedge]

isn't java extremely similar to C#?

[desert juniper]

it's C# which is much more digestible
Everything up to chapter 27 is directly transferable to C++ and blueprints (with some obvious syntax differences)

[mental trellis]

c# is not c++

[junior hedge]

It's nickname is literally "Microsoft's Java"

[junior hedge]

read the convo

[mental trellis]

I am!

[desert juniper]

yes 🙂 for the most part

every language has their differences. but i do find that C# and java share a lot of similarities

[mental trellis]

You're looking for a similar, but easier, language compraed to c++? That isn't c#.

[desert juniper]

I think it's C#

C# is such a joy of a language to learn as your first

[junior hedge]

read what Amaze and MischMash are saying, don't see how this applies to me

[desert juniper]

java as well. but C# is a bit more relevant

[mental trellis]

Well, whoever is learning then.

[junior hedge]

infinite loop detected

(Ready Text sets "Reading Text?" to true)

[desert juniper]

while loops shouldn't really be used unless you know exactly what you're doing

they'll block the thread

[junior hedge]

oh i didnt know that

[desert juniper]

yeah. insta crash

[junior hedge]

what's a good way to do this then?

[mental trellis]

Somewhere in that loop body exec bit, you need to set that bool to false.

[desert juniper]

if you really need to do a loop, just use a timer, or a delay node

[mental trellis]

Or events

[junior hedge]

basically I want to skip a dialogue

[desert juniper]

here's an example of a way to perform a loop that's often used

really shitty code here.but shows how to use a delay in order to run a loop that won't actually crash

[junior hedge]

I think I get it

yeah that completely worked thx

[desert juniper]

np, look at what @mental trellis said though. there's likely a much better solution for what you're trying to do. i just gave the closes to the one you were asking for 🙂

[junior hedge]

I am using a keybind to change the value

this is what I did

if wondering

[desert juniper]

events in general would probably help. but would have to spend a bit more time understanding what it is you're trying to do exactly

[junior hedge]

It would be way to complicated, I am using construct for debugging but if I had it in separate events when there would be THOUSAND of dialogue it would be pretty confusing nonetheless

[desert juniper]

yeah you don't want to hardcode any data. you want to build a generic system to parse your dialogue

I haven't made my own dialogue system yet in UE, but I've made one in java before.
basically had all dialogue in a json file with pointers as to where to go next if certain dialogue was selected, or choices

[tawdry surge]

You would do the same in unreal. Inkle is also a great tool for designing branching narratives for games and exporting them as json

[desert juniper]

0 learning curve is purely anecdotal evidence...
though it was the same for me 🤣

really though. both languages are a pleasure. though I'm not advanced enough to understand why java gets hate. 🤷‍♂️

is C# cross platform now?

[tawdry surge]

Yeah but going from c# to c++ many people still struggle. Thats why I like the cs50 course as a starter.
It isn't focused on any particular language and covers the super low level concepts that hold people back when learning lower level languages

[desert juniper]

agreed. going from C# to C++ tough will be a much easier time than from nothing to C++ 😄
that's why i had recommended C# earlier first for their first language

not to mention unreal's macro heavy C++

it's fine once once you really get used to it. but man what a learning curve that was

rider is what changed it for me. VS is trash

unreal without proper intellisense is just for masochists

[tawdry surge]

That's a breeze once you learn BP since you can use your BP functions to track down the c++ ones.
It's the people who never learn about memory allocation or what big O is that struggle as they try to advance

[desert juniper]

well.. the great thing is you can impliment C++ to your BP project if you ever need it, and if you don't.. then you're good anyways 😄

[junior hedge]

how about with speeds?

[desert juniper]

Java performs not as bueno. C# is closer to the metal than Java. somethign about the hypervisor? 🤷‍♂️

it was built for cross platform compatibility. it can run on anything

I could have been misled. Its been years since my CS courses

[tawdry surge]

Well not really

C# is both

Its compiled for a vm that runs it

[desert juniper]

oh yeah, I always leave that to BPs
all my C++ actors and components are just the "Base"

and then all my implementations are in BP

like my items and inventory system. I have a AWieldableItem and that has all the basic info all wieldable items need
but I still leave it up to the BP to perform all the implimentations and item specific logic

[tawdry surge]

Thats how you should build it.
Functions, loops, and heavy math in c++
Anything the designers may need access to in BP

Although I start fully in the BP child class and then transfer to c++ on the parent once im done prototyping