blueprint

[gentle urchin]

It is not, hence the error

[tight schooner]

Make some arbitrary change to it and force it to recompile maybe

[gentle urchin]

Its a bool

Just need to set it to true, i believe

[scarlet pumice]

Ok I think the problem is the Event is being called by code before the construction script has run!

[rough blade]

I have a plane that has multiple static mesh pieces that all generate hit events when collided with (used to break them off on impact) but ever since I updated to UE5 the "Event Hit" node will only ever return my base Static Mesh as the "My Component" that was hit. Did they change this?

[jagged stone]

I'm having trouble with the Make SplinePoint node... I'm using a certain Z value on the location (100 for example)...but when I print back the spline point location it is not 100, it is 108.xxxx ?

Everything else I have set to 0 (scale/tagent etc..)

Where is the splinepoint just changing it's own values?

[gentle urchin]

What point type do you use ?

For tangents etc

Does it change when yiu only add one, or when you add a second one

[jagged stone]

I've tried Curve/Curve Custom Tangent/Linear all seem to add this value to the position

[gentle urchin]

When you only add one?

I ended up using custom for mine

Tangent calculations mess with it otherwise

[jagged stone]

I'm not even adding them to a spline yet, I'm just building an array of splinepoints

B.ut the splinepoints have position values changed immediately (before even adding the points to the spline)

[gentle urchin]

How can they, if you havnt added them

[jagged stone]

That's what I'd like to know 😄 I'm literally just doing Make SplinePoint, then print the back the values in that SplinePoint...and they are different to what i just put in

[gentle urchin]

What are you trying to do qith this anyways 😄

[jagged stone]

I'm calculating a bunch of points using line traces, then setup a spline between those points so that I can lerp move something along the spline

So first I'm building an array of SplinePoints, then do Clear Points and Add points on the spline to give it the new points; but if the array of points is not even what i entered then the final spline is not going to be right

[gentle urchin]

You can lerp between regular vectors aswell just fyi

If you need curves tho.. then you're on one of many tracks

[jagged stone]

I need a timeline curve for the entire travel, so spline seems to the best way to do that

[gentle urchin]

Easily done without spline, as long as you dont want/need the curves

[jagged stone]

I don't need curves (as in bends) in the spline; how would I travel between an array of vectors (with a single timeline curve?)

(location points i mean by vectors)

[neat stream]

Can an Object deletes himself?

[gentle urchin]

StartMovement -> Play from start (timeline)

TimelineUpdate -> lerp current loc to first index of pathVectors

TimelineComplete -> remove first index of pathVectors

[jagged stone]

But when the curve will be between each point, not the total travel

[gentle urchin]

Branch on > 0 pathPoints

If true then StartMovement again

Loop de loop

[jagged stone]

I needs to do the timeline for the total travel (not speed up/slow down etc... between waypoints), which is what will happen in your example

In your example if i have 5 locations i will run the timeline curve 5 times

[gentle urchin]

You can calc the needed playrate

[jagged stone]

My timeline curve is not linear

[gentle urchin]

If you want the entire path to take 1 sec, and the path is 100 units

......

Ok

I surrender

[jagged stone]

Really i just want the spline to be in the position i tell it to be in 😄

[grim spade]

why my ai controlled actor not receiving input after i use Enable Input node?

[jagged stone]

instead of like 8 units off

[gentle urchin]

Custom curve points is the way to go

Think im using the Add Point node in my setup

[silk hinge]

hey, can a "save game" handle mutliple slots in the same "saveGame" class ?

[gentle urchin]

Took a whike to ge it right since i wanted fixed curves

[gentle urchin]

Probably but sounds sub optimal

[silk hinge]

ok thanks, I would still give it a try, not mutch things to load anyway ^^

[lime cairn]

I'm trying to figure out this concept. I have two actors, actor A and B. I want to to able to move and rotate actor A and have actor B be in the same position relative to it like in the illustration. I want to do this without childing or parenting it

I'm able to do the movement right but the rotation is proving to be more difficult than I thought

[gentle urchin]

Make actor b track actor a, and have a target pos/rot relative to actor a

Snap to it or lerp to it, depending on desired effect

This would be done on Tick()

Pos changes are the easy one

Rot is a bit more work, but there's a node for everything you need

[lime cairn]

Yeah pos is easy, rotation I can't figure out. There's the RotateVectorAroundAxis node but I don't understand it

[gentle urchin]

Thats the one yes

[lime cairn]

I'm not sure where to input the location of the square

I thought Axis but it seems like that that acts more like a boolean array

[gentle urchin]

InVect is the location

Axis is which axis you want to to rotate it around

[jagged stone]

@gentle urchin it seems the issue was using the Add Points node on a spline; when I use Add Spline Point node to add each position separately it seems to work fine

[lime cairn]

Ahhh, and then I add the polygon position to the return value

[gentle urchin]

Setting z to 1 would be horizontal rotation

[lime cairn]

i think

[gentle urchin]

I remember having some bs with it aswell

[gentle urchin]

The out vector would be the new relative position

The degrees would be the delta rotation of ActorA

Since last rotation..

Kinda

I think atleast 🤣

[lime cairn]

yeah that simple node has the ability to fry your brain

😛

[gentle urchin]

Vector math has done that for a while

Add rotators to it for a real braintwister

[wicked magnet]

Does anyone create Take Recorder scripts here?

[faint pasture]

https://docs.unrealengine.com/4.27/en-US/BlueprintAPI/Math/Transform/ConvertTransformtoRelative/

[gentle urchin]

Oh

Didnt even know they had that one 😄

[faint pasture]

Store that, move A, combine A.transform with the stored value, that's Bs transform

[lime cairn]

oh dear I might have been trying to reinvent the wheel there

[gentle urchin]

Same lol

[lime cairn]

Combine == Compose?

[jagged stone]

Does anyone have any experience with the "Mirror Vector by Normal" node, it seems bugged out (sometimes does not mirror correctly?)

[harsh tartan]

Is there a node to set all booleans in an array to true/false at once?

[frank tide]

How can I call function from other blueprint?
I have function AddScore on other blueprint. How can I call it?

[spark steppe]

you need a reference to the object which uses the BP

[gentle urchin]

With a reference to the bp you've made it

What Ben said

[spark steppe]

no

[harsh tartan]

Daamn

[spark steppe]

use an foreach loop?! (that's what a node would do either ways)

[harsh tartan]

Yeah i was gonna but i wanted to make sure there wasnt a node for that cause i thought doing each one separately might be unnecessary maybe even more expensive but youre absolutely right those two things literally would just be exactly the same

[sacred canyon]

wow Im doing something similar rn, completely broken
Im doing click and drag sides of a cube to extend them, and rotation is somehow making that impossible and it just keeps exploding its so painful

[frank tide]

I need to instantiate it but how

[gentle urchin]

Thats a class ref, not an instance ref

[frank tide]

how can i get "ref" to instance

[gentle urchin]

Many ways. You could simply spawn it and save it that way

Or you could trace / collide for it

Or make itself register to some globally accessible class and access it via a global get function

Like playercontroller, playerchar, playerpawn, gamemode, gameinstance

Wherever it makes sense

[lime cairn]

yep I know, I think the ConvertTransformToRelative might work but it'll need significant refactoring on my part and it's 17.35 on the eve of an extra long weekend and I'm like ugh I'll just do that Monday

[sacred canyon]

yeah all the relative and worldspace stuff is whats confusing me

I mean it mainly works its just very easy to make the whole cube fly away if youre not careful with it

even if I just make it too tall for some reason, no idea why it suddenly cant handle it

[crimson jolt]

How do you access World Settings through Blueprint?

[cedar sparrow]

How come seemingly every tutorial and person on youtube uses their own custom Deal and Take Damage events instead of the built in Apply Damage and Take Any Damage

it seems like a waste to just make the same events and an interface to use them

[gentle urchin]

Agreed

Depends on needs

If you only need damage, then the built in system is fine

[frank tide]

Huh, when I press play, unreal engine just freezes

[gentle urchin]

They might've heard about the horribleness of casts and how it sacks performance

[cedar sparrow]

I had that issue until i resaved all my assets and then restarted my engine

[cedar sparrow]

I dont understand, are the damage nodes casts? I thought that was casting an actor as another actor

[gentle urchin]

No, i was being a bit ironic :p

Cast is basically a typecheck

[cedar sparrow]

lol im not at the level for jokes yet! 😄

[gentle urchin]

Since damage is implemented at Actor level, everything thatnis an actorz can recieve damage

Everyone might not know this

[frank tide]

why

[cedar sparrow]

I can't imagine needing more than this for damage, but maybe im wrong

[frank tide]

unreal engine literally takes 10 gb of ram rn

[cedar sparrow]

wow

that seems problematic

[frank tide]

there is literally "MyGame preview" window

but its empty

[harsh tartan]

In blueprints how would i print integer variable values as part of the string printed in the 'print string' node

Like when im printing "The new values is [the integer]"

[frank tide]

Format Text

[tight schooner]

Append node, or format text node

[harsh tartan]

I see

[gentle urchin]

Getting a returnvalue is not that easy without c++ f.ex

[harsh tartan]

Thanks

[gentle urchin]

If you wanted to know how much damage actually was applied

[feral parrot]

any thoughts on how to prevent character from moving left right t but be able to rotate if it's being driven by one action key? I need to switch it on and off when it's needed.

[soft kite]

How does Request pawn prediction event stuff work?
I'm trying to use it to tell my Ai where to aim a projectile
Can't find any good info on the use of it

[cedar sparrow]

What would you want to return? You use the apply damage node, pass all the info to the receive damage node. If you wanted to return anything after from the damaged to the instigator then that seems like the time for an interface

[gentle urchin]

Yes exactly.

Return the actual damage dealt, after any mitigation, armor etc

If you wanted to display it f.ex

[cedar sparrow]

the apply node returns that already no?

[gentle urchin]

Not by default, no

[cedar sparrow]

oh

i see what you mean

[full nacelle]

Hello any suggestions on how to create a whack-a-mole playable machine via blueprints? Thanks!

[junior hedge]

its probably something in your script

[sacred canyon]

THIS IS WHAT I MEAN https://gyazo.com/8c82f83195c84444f06b4d0bfb99d0d5

I dont know what the hell can even be causing things like this

[dry condor]

and the cube goes brrrrrrrrrr 🤣

[hollow schooner]

Just so I understand, you have the different sub-menus from both EXT and INT in one widget switcher?

And you only need 2 widget switchers to get the whole thing running? 😮

[harsh tartan]

If i attach an actor to another actor will that create references between them so that they can call custom events from one another?

[dawn gazelle]

Not directly. You have these nodes to work with.

[sacred canyon]

do those exist for components, or bones? I think I needed that at one point but didnt seem to exist

[hollow schooner]

Also, how do you get this node:

[dawn gazelle]

That's a custom event.

[dawn gazelle]

For Components you have several options of getting a component:

Not sure on bones.

[sacred canyon]

there seems to be a lot missing for bones

cant even seem to get a bone reference from overlap events

[gentle urchin]

Yepp, only 2

The Custom event simply activates another camera,

you probably have your existing method for this, with some "SetViewTargetWithBlend" going on

[hollow schooner]

Oh right, so what I've done here, basically

[gentle urchin]

yeah 🙂

[hollow schooner]

So Now I just need to copy your "Active Widget Index" tree and I should be good to go

cheers man, really aappreciate it

[gentle urchin]

Dont ask me if it scales etc, because i got no clue about that xD

i just know that this setup works 😛

does the job as i understood the request ^^

[hollow schooner]

Definitely cleaner than the Mess I made lol

From what I could see in the videos, it looks perfect

[gentle urchin]

😄

The limit of this sytem is that you can only animate one of the switch widgets at a time

so you cant fade one out while fading the other in

one must fade out. Then one can fade in 😛

[faint pasture]

What drives its rotation normally? You using Orient Rotation to Movement?

[hollow schooner]

One more thing, do I understand correctly, that via the Widget Index I can now just replace the lower section that I previously used, with a single widget indet node?

[gentle urchin]

yes

Quite clean huh 😄

[bold shard]

I made a BP_GameState which inherits from CPP_GameState, but I cannot cast to the BP version, only the CPP version. Did I miss a step or something?

[hollow schooner]

Very much so haha

[feral parrot]

Yep, it is driven which direction it’s turned by

[faint pasture]

That doesn't answer the question. Is rotation driven by movement direction or something else?

do you have Orient Rotation to Movement turned on?

[hollow schooner]

So, I tried to copy and adapt the code, but the sub-menus are nto showing up. In my case, if I select the "colors" Icon I want the different color options to appear. That isnt currently happening.
Is it an issue with the index number?

Not quite sure how to set the index numbers

[gentle urchin]

The index number to use is the sequence they exist in the widget switcher

Top is 0, bottom is 0+n, however many choises you got

[hollow schooner]

From my understanding this should work though

"SelectColor" is index 0, which should show me the different color options . right?

[gentle urchin]

Yes,

Unless its already the active index, in which case it hides it

[hollow schooner]

Maybe this is screwing with it

I have a custom event that toggles the camera

its not 2 separate events

[gentle urchin]

Gotta go for now, sushi on the table

[hollow schooner]

enjoy

[bold shard]

My casts are breaking every time I open the project 😭. I am casting to my game state, but closing and opening the project converts the cast into a Bad cast node and I don't know why. Has anyone dealt with something like this before?

[spark steppe]

did you maybe move the gamestate file once? could be that it has an redirector which acts weird?!

[bold shard]

No, I made the CPP, compiled, made the BP, and then started casting and running into this issue

[hollow schooner]

@gentle urchin These are the buttons and the hierachy. What am I overlooking?

[dawn gazelle]

Did you compile while the editor was open?

[bold shard]

No, I always close the editor before compiling

[dawn gazelle]

Barring that, I'd say you may have a corrupt blueprint?
Try creating a new BP, cast to that blueprint in another, save up, restart the editor and see if the bad cast node still pops up.

[bold shard]

Sure, I can give it a try

No luck, it also turns into a bad cast node

[spark steppe]

when does your module start up?

[bold shard]

What do you mean? Like, when is the cast called?

[spark steppe]

"Modules": [
        {
            "Name": "MyProject",
            "Type": "Runtime",
            "LoadingPhase": "PreDefault",
            "AdditionalDependencies": [
                "Engine"
            ]
        }
    ],

should be something like this in the uproject file

[bold shard]

Looks like:

"Modules": [
    {
        "Name": "SL1",
        "Type": "Runtime",
        "LoadingPhase": "Default",
        "AdditionalDependencies": [
            "Engine",
            "AIModule",
            "CoreUObject",
            "DeveloperSettings",
            "CommonUI"
        ]
    }
],

[spark steppe]

can you check with PreDefault?

[bold shard]

Sure

[spark steppe]

it's just a wild guess tho

[bold shard]

Do I have to rebuild or anything after making that change?

[spark steppe]

no

[bold shard]

Nope, causes me to crash on startup

[spark steppe]

that just changes when in the startup process your module is loaded

hmm, guess some of your dependencies don't work too well with it

[gentle urchin]

It looks correct

Id ditch the flipflop

[bold shard]

I tried casting to another class in the same file, I get the same issue. The class I am working in inherits from a plugin class, I wonder if that is the issue.

[spark steppe]

so your c++ class inherits from a plugins c++ class?

[bold shard]

My hierarchy is:

BP Game State > C++ Game State > AGameStateBase

BP Widget > C++ Plugin Widget > UCommonActivatableWidget

[hollow schooner]

How else can I go about that section If I only have one event?

[spark steppe]

which cast fails tho?

[bold shard]

In the BP Widget, I call GetGameState->CastToBPGameState

The GS cast is failing

I tried getting the player pawn and casting it to my BP class, that cast also gets broken on restart

[spark steppe]

which engine version are you using?

[bold shard]

5.0.2

[spark steppe]

well, overall your setup should work (and last time i've experienced such wonky behavior was 4.25, but also i was a noob back then :D)

[gentle urchin]

You have two events ! Call it before the common event

[hollow schooner]

How do you mean? Im talking about the Camera Toggle Cast section

[gentle urchin]

Exactly

The cast is called from two events

One from interior menu going exterior

And vice versa

[bold shard]

Damn, well, I will see if I can handle this where my widget gets created instead of in the widget

[hollow schooner]

So what do you suggest I do here 😮

Cast it twice, once for each event?

[harsh tartan]

Is there a way i can group my blueprints so that if i like, wanna spawn a random enemy out of the collection of all my enemies, i can refer to that grouping of blueprints?

[hollow schooner]

Like this

[spark steppe]

you could make an array of class references in your spawner blueprint

[gentle urchin]

No, combine them after their separate menu switch

Litteraly reverse the nodes

[harsh tartan]

is it expensive to be putting these arrays of every possible enemy class into one blueprint?

[hollow schooner]

Separate menu switch?

[harsh tartan]

especially if i might be doing that kind of thing multiples times in different blueprints?

[gentle urchin]

Just reverse them. Then at the end when you cast, combine them

[hollow schooner]

ah

[hollow schooner]

tada

The UI is still screwd though

[gentle urchin]

Well done !

[spark steppe]

not really

[gentle urchin]

What is messed up with it ?

[harsh tartan]

ok well thats good

[spark steppe]

you can also use soft class references if it makes sense, but that depends on your game

[harsh tartan]

im a bit overconcerned with doing thigns efficiently right now lool

[hollow schooner]

None of the menus are opening

[harsh tartan]

idk what the difference is but ill look into that

[spark steppe]

soft class references don't force the class to be in memory, but if you gonna use it soon or later anyways, it might not make much sense to use them

[gentle urchin]

At all?

[hollow schooner]

Yup. I only get the main buttons that SHOULD open the individual menus

[gentle urchin]

Ohh

So that one is working

Visibility set to visible on the widgets?

On the sub-widgets?

[hollow schooner]

let me check

EXT and INT buttons are there, but their sub-category buttons dotn show

Yeah, all buttons set to "Visible"

[gentle urchin]

Add some print strings, make sure they are clicked

Show me the function

Incase you got it wrong 😄

[hollow schooner]

Function?

[gentle urchin]

Yeah, for updating the widget?

[hollow schooner]

ermm

[gentle urchin]

This

Ohh you missed that one 🤣

[hollow schooner]

Im confused as to what this is

I am sending button clicks to the varient manager

Nevermind, your function is for somethign else. But I cant figure out what for

[gentle urchin]

For hiding the sub menu if its already open

[hollow schooner]

So this is wrong:

[spark steppe]

not necessarily

but you are aware that you can also set the active widget by reference?

which is imho better to read, and less prone to fail

[gentle urchin]

True

I usually dont have widgets as subwidgets

And referencing some Hbox feels odd

[spark steppe]

if you add a new widget in the wrong position, your indexes get messed up and the trouble starts, which wont happen with references

[hollow schooner]

So I recreated the function

So now I replace all of the previous ones with the function?

@gentle urchin Wouldnt it make more sense in the function to connect the input to the variable slots so that they update accordingly?

[gentle urchin]

Give me a sec

Returning to computer

[hollow schooner]

Sorry for the hassle

[gentle urchin]

Unrelated events, no worries

[charred berry]

Anyyone know what this is referring to ? Level Script Blueprint references streamed actor Trig_dogstatueEntry

getting on loading, converted ue4 level to ue5

showing as error

[gentle urchin]

They are connected 🙂 when you compile a function with inputs, you can reference them as local variables! pretty handy 🙂

cleans up much code

[hollow schooner]

Still doenst work though 😦 UI doenst show

[gentle urchin]

the controls dont show *

[hollow schooner]

This is what I have now

[gentle urchin]

is the WS_Controls visible?

[hollow schooner]

Do you mean here?

[gentle urchin]

here

[hollow schooner]

Set to collapsed atm

[gentle urchin]

dont have it collapsed

[hollow schooner]

If I set it to visible, the color options are always visible and I cant change to e.g. the rims

[gentle urchin]

Yes you can

thats the widget switchers job

[spark steppe]

well

you would have to show it obviously when you hit an button

[gentle urchin]

Thats the set active index part

[spark steppe]

and hide it whenever you want to hide it

[hollow schooner]

Yes, but it literally wont change now

[gentle urchin]

set to the 0'th index to hide it

[spark steppe]

really?

[gentle urchin]

with this setup, yes

[spark steppe]

i see...

weird setup tho

[gentle urchin]

named hidden for convenience, nothing else

Well

its a mockup,

[hollow schooner]

Is the issue in my hierachy?

[gentle urchin]

dont put to much into it 😛

[spark steppe]

i mean, the whole thing is a bit weird, i wouldn't use a widget switcher in the first place 😄

[gentle urchin]

I feel it makes perfect sense

the subwidgets got exclusive visibility

[spark steppe]

ok

[gentle urchin]

you can ofc handle that manually, but why bother

[hollow schooner]

I think I need a brake for today. I'll take alook at everything tomorrow morning. My brain is smoking after work and trying to understand what I'm doing in my state is probably just counterproductinve

[gentle urchin]

What setup would you've gone for, for such a UI?

[gentle urchin]

No, one issue was that the widgetswitcher was set to hidden (probably because of your previous setup)

I cant say if there's more issues yet ..

[spark steppe]

well, i haven't put much thought into it honestly

i trust you on the widget switcher there

[gentle urchin]

I'm not a pro with UMG, so I'm all up for learning and alternatives ^^

[spark steppe]

i would have probably just spawned stuff in a named slot or something

and cleared that slot to hide things

or i would have used a widget switcher, it's a bit of a mood decision here i guess

[gentle urchin]

Spwaning into a named slot would be pretty clean aswell

[spark steppe]

yea but then you may have to repopulate the current color from somewhere, so the widget switcher is probably the better choice

[gentle urchin]

I'm generally not very fond of massive widgets containing tons of buttons and boxes and whatnot

[spark steppe]

as it keeps everything loaded

[gentle urchin]

so I'd probably subwidget it along the way to clean up the tree a little

Also the "hidden" border was mostly just to avoid hiding/showing the widgetswitcher, but the effect would be the same really

[dry condor]

it depends how "clean" you want to do it i think. im sure you could just slap it all into one widget and just switch some visibilitys. but thats not really a good solution imo

[gentle urchin]

it would probably work just fine

perhaps a tad messy but oh well 😛

[maiden wadi]

Dunno. Switcher would work fine if the bottom are just tab buttons. I don't care for keeping explicit pointers to widgets if I can help it. Only major containers usually have pointers in like HUD. And clearing a named slot causes garbage collection without a pointer, and that causes recreation of widgets constantly when using the tool.

[gentle urchin]

the bottom is a tab, just 2 sets

one set for interior config, and one set for exterior config

[steel shadow]

Hi I need a little help. I have an actor with a child actor component that is a pawn, on pawn possession I call 'detachfromactor' in the pawn BP, however I don't think it works quite correctly as although I can control the pawn mostly it keeps snapping to the location of what I guess would be the parent, every 10 seconds or so

[tawdry surge]

Don't use child actor components. They suck

[fiery swallow]

In blueprints, casting to an object loads everything inside of it into memory even if the node was never used correct? This is also true in the editor as well?

[maiden wadi]

Correct. And not just casting, This includes any hard reference properties even if empty.

Also function returns, etc.

[gentle urchin]

Only loads it if its not already there tho, right?

[fiery swallow]

The man 🙏

[maiden wadi]

To be clear, it loads the CDO. So only one instance. It's not normally a problem unless you're loading a ton of different classes with heavy defaults specified.

[spark steppe]

this is more of a problem on heavy stuff, specially textures

[fiery swallow]

We are to the point where we need 64gb to package our game. We do have some very big assets. But I wondered if so many things being in memory due to hard references alone is the issue

We have been developing this game over 5 years and have yet to use soft references 🤔

[spark steppe]

64gb is the package result or 64gb is the amount of memory used while packing?

[wooden cave]

does anyone know how to atach t he weapon to the first person character again in ue5? the template now its meant to pick up the gun from the level, is there any way to make it like before the gun is always with the player?

[fiery swallow]

We can't package the game with anything less then like 50gb of ram lol

[spark steppe]

how large is the packaged result?

and do you cook to single files or to a pak? (as iirc unreal produces the pak file in memory before writing it to disk...)

[fiery swallow]

It comes out to about 26gb. And I'm not sure of all the specifics but we do a normal package to release the game on steam. That's probably not helpful information though. I'm not the one who packages it because I don't have enough ram. But I was just hoping the issue can be helped by switching to soft references

It would also be good for low end pc users aswell

[spark steppe]

nope, that wont fix the packaging usage

unreal LOVES to make things in memory, that's why most people recommend 64GB or more

[wary wagon]

does anyone remember the name of the node that returns an output based on a boolean value?

like an if branch but instead of exec pins as outputs you output a value

[spark steppe]

select node

[fiery swallow]

Lmao oh I see. Guess I'll be buying more sticks. Thanks for the information

[spark steppe]

you can, if you have enough disk space, increase the pagefile size

but that will be awful slow compared to real memory

[toxic thunder]

I'm trying to call GetController() on a Vehicle (the default rover from the VehicleAdv template) but for some reason my controller is always None, even though I know the PlayerController who controls it, and controls work just as well.

The BP is a child of the "WheeledVehicle" class, so this would mean it's not actually a child of the default Pawn class? How does one work around this? I can't just call GetPlayerController(0), my project has local multiplayer.

[tawdry surge]

No default pawn is the base for all pawns and characters, so it'll let you cast up to wheeled vehicle
If this is failing then the controller of this BP must not be a kart controller class or any of its children

[cinder thunder]

Does anyone know why my location transform happens before my rotation? I want to rotated and move at the same time? My timeline goes from 0-1 over 5 seconds for both the X and Y component.

Y is used for rotation, X is used for position

[gentle urchin]

Why have them separated?

[cinder thunder]

I am trying to get it to work. When I used the same alpha value of 0-1, it was having the same problem....

@gentle urchin

I don't understand why they are not happening at the same time. My camera moves to the transform location and then rotates....

[fading wren]

is there any problem for performance or other issues to use 2 reference in same node ?

[gentle urchin]

No

[gentle urchin]

Depends on the curve i suppose. I'd share the alpha probably

[jaunty summit]

How the heck that works though xD?

[gentle urchin]

Not sure if you want to hardcode that target vector tho

[jaunty summit]

So what the target really is?

[gentle urchin]

both of them

[maiden wadi]

It just calls the function on both pointers

[fading wren]

i dont know, but it works

[gentle urchin]

I abuse this all the time

[fading wren]

great, thanks

[cinder thunder]

@gentle urchin yea same results when I share the alpha..

[jaunty summit]

Woah

Is that BP only thing?

[gentle urchin]

Your loc/rot looks a bit weird tho, hard to say much about it

Like, if you tried lerping from fixed vector and rotator A to fixed vector and rotator B (or transform), surely that would work as expected

Lerp also gives you a weird effect when the input is variable

it slows down the closer it gets

Assuming it's lerp you want, you'd probably want to cache the initial rotation and location, and use those as starting points

then move towards a target rotation and location

[cinder thunder]

Ok I'll give that a try.

I am trying to set up a system where I have 5 points I'm my scene that I can move my camera to with the press of a button.

[gentle urchin]

So those would be scene components or actors i guess,

which would have a transform

[dim tapir]

Is there a "or" function or a smart set to get this BP to work with more than one character?

[gentle urchin]

You'd want the "parent" class

Hopefully they got a parent before the Character class?

If not, perhaps one should be made

[dim tapir]

Oh, shit. I have not done parent for my characters. I will redo sometime in the future

Thanks

[gentle urchin]

A suggested solution

[near glen]

how can I force character to rotate till it reaches certain rotation but with character's basic rotation speed (like character should run to that direction but with 0 speed)

[maiden wadi]

Sort of. It's functionally the same as

void SomeClass::SomeInputAxis(float Axis)
{
  SpringArm->AddLocalRotation(FRotator(0.f, Axis+Speed, 0.f));
  Head->AddLocalRotation(FRotator(0.f, Axis+Speed, 0.f));
}

[cinder thunder]

@gentle urchin beautiful. That looks very clean. Thank you . I'll give it a go and report back.

[jaunty summit]

Ah I see. So in cpp you have to call it explicitly on both! Wow BP are so hacky ^^

Thanks Authaer!

[cinder thunder]

@gentle urchin one thing. I don't think set actor rotation work unless I remove my "character movment" from my blueprint (which I am fine with doing, I don't actually need to pilot the camera, just move it from a->b, ect

[craggy hatch]

Hi ! Does somebody know a UE4 Tutorial about making XP or how to make a Static mesh follow onto your Direction like in the GIF ?

[azure smelt]

I was wondering if someone here can help me out. I started using a VR plugin and It took sometime to set it up. Everything about it works except for 1 aspect, and that is the leg animations for walking. Instead of him side stepping or back stepping he is just walking forward in animation, no matter what direction I move. I had this working fine last time I looked at but that was months ago, returning to the project I feel as though some blueprint API changed or something as it is not working now. Can someone here help?

[gentle urchin]

Replace with your set control rotation if thats what works for you

And get control rotation^

For the initial rot

[maiden wadi]

Normally that is handled inside of a pawn's Skeletal Mesh's Animation Blueprint.

[azure smelt]

There is a comment here that says feetIK should be replaced with MovementAnim, but I don't know what Movement Anim node is?

[near glen]

is there any nice way to place reroute nodes on lines faster?
nvm, double click on line

[maiden wadi]

What is BS_VRPlayerWalk? That looks like an animation supporting multiple directions that blends from speed and direction. If it is, then your variable you're pulling from may not be updating direction correctly or something in the AnimBP's update function.

[azure smelt]

Where can i find the ABP update function?

What about the comment that says to replace feetIK with a Movement Anim?

What is the variable I am pulling from and where could I find it?

[restive token]

What would be the best way to make a Pacman-style game that plays on a 2d widget?

Do I try to build it in Widgets or put it outside of the map and do a render target?

[gentle urchin]

I wouldnt play it on a widget at all but oh well ;p

Missing out on that collision handling and whatnot

[spark steppe]

well, you can run the whole game logic on an 2d array

[gentle urchin]

Sounds practical

[spark steppe]

at least for which dots are there

[gentle urchin]

I made some ANSI game with widget and text blocks

Old style, with animated river

Not very practical to work with

[spark steppe]

i made snake like that in JS and c

and after all, pacman game logic is kinda like snake

[gentle urchin]

Well

[spark steppe]

just with more walls and not growing

[gentle urchin]

They share that you pick stuff up

But thats mostly it 😅

Grid movement

[spark steppe]

yea, now i wonder if the ghosts also move in a grid

in the original game

[gentle urchin]

But then the ghosts, and the power mechanic where you eat them or whatever

Not very experienced with pacman tbh

[fiery swallow]

If you're trying to get the closest actors in a certain distance you should do sphereoverlap actors rather then get all actors of class by the way. Way more efficient, and you can set the range aswell

[spark steppe]

https://youtu.be/dScq4P5gn4A?t=125 ok apparently they move smooth

but today i also wondered how to best implement playable arcade machines...

[gentle urchin]

Unexpected

Damn, that sound

[gentle urchin]

As in in-game arcade machines?

[spark steppe]

yea, like in GTA 5 😄

[gentle urchin]

Never played it

But prob many of them can be done in widgets 🤣

[spark steppe]

bet someone made pacman as shader 😄

[feral parrot]

Hi guys! Could anyone give me an advise on what logic I can implement to make it work? I have a 2.5D platformer-like game and a character going from left to right. I want the character to rotate immediately once I pressed on my controller. What I've got so far is this, it works not as it's supposed to be 😦

[gentle urchin]

Perhaps duckhunt would be fun to try lol

[spark steppe]

https://www.shadertoy.com/view/Ms3XWN

there we go 😄

[dim tapir]

I'm currently following online tutorials, when the game is near finish I'll work on the polish. Thanks for the tip though, I'll add it into the to-do

[spark steppe]

look at that beauty of a map in Buffer A

[gentle urchin]

Damn

That is such dedication

[spark steppe]

https://www.shadertoy.com/view/ls2SDD

Unreal Intro

can you just render shaders in a widget/material in UE?

and pass the inputs to the shader parameters?

[dense cargo]

Whats thé issue with that ?

[dawn gazelle]

Input Axis events are constantly firing, so what is happening is you're adding the movement input, but scaling it by the axis value (so it can go + or - I imagine) and then your branch is checking whether the axis value == 1.
What you may want to do instead of the branch is is use a compare float node.

[feral parrot]

it rotates my character to opposite direction when I stop

[dense cargo]

There y go datura is Ur savior 🤣

[feral parrot]

Working perfectly!Thanks! Can there be kind of situations when you are in between 0-180 degree?

[harsh tartan]

I wanna organize my actor assets into groups that i can spawn a random one from. Is there a way to group assets together by a category that i define, and how can i put references to all those assets in an array so i can spawn a random index from my main blueprint?

[feral parrot]

Another issue is when I start I'm already rotated for some reason. I do this to tweak it.

[harsh tartan]

I may have asked a similar question earlier today i really dont remember, but im still having trouble grasping the idea of keeping all of my assets of a certain type in a kind of box that i can pull from

[spark steppe]

at least for actors theres the actor palette plugin

which should come with the engine?!

[gentle urchin]

Found it lol

[dense cargo]

This not work ?

[dawn gazelle]

There's all sorts of ways that your actor could get off of the rotation you're trying to use. I believe you need to constrain your physics to prevent unwanted rotation or movement.

[feral parrot]

Oh gosh, that's what i need 🙂

[winter kettle]

I have a X second interval to do a R Interp To node, I'm putting X as the Interp Speed, but my timeline ends before the interpolation finishes, what do?

[modest monolith]

Can someone explain me why I don't lean my camera back when I release the button ? Horror engine has the same exact nodes but on my project doesn't work as in horror engine

[faint pasture]

You're stopping the timeline instead of reversing it

[pallid crescent]

is there a GetNetMode() function for blueprint?. cant find anything on it

[modest monolith]

Perfect.. One of my common mistakes... Thank you!! Do you know also why I lean right when i should lean left ?

I press E and I lean to the left

Ooooh

sorry

my bad

i found out lol

Ok I swapped the inputs but now they are blocking again

If I lean right i'm still able to lean left and bug everything

[faint pasture]

Yeah because timelines like that are a kinda wack way to do it

I'd just have a float Lean and a LeanAxis.

Tick -> FinterpToConstant(Lean, LeanAxis, LeanSpeed)

but it depends on how often you're leaning etc

[visual crest]

How do I make this variable callable by another blue print ?

[faint pasture]

and how blendable you need it to be

[modest monolith]

But on the horror engine from where i stole it it works perfectly

[modest monolith]

@faint pasture

The characters lean properly and if I press Q while using E doesn't work

if I do the same in my project it does Q and E together

and then block my leaning

[dense cargo]

Interface message

[modest monolith]

If I go E and then Q

it goes Q and then I can't use E anymore

[visual crest]

??

[faint pasture]

Read what I posted.

[modest monolith]

This is my setup atm

[faint pasture]

Timelines are independent. You're setting the same thing multiple times per frame when both are running

That setup is fucked

[dense cargo]

Try to pass your variable trough an interface message

[faint pasture]

I'd just FInterp it and call it a day.

[visual crest]

I am really knew I don't know what that means

[modest monolith]

I don't know how to do it.. I am more confident with timelines.. as I see it works on that place why shouldn't it work on mine ?

[dense cargo]

Hum create a blueprint interface , add it to both your bps , make a function on your interface adding the type of your variable , compile both blueprints and make a call whenever you need to pass your variable from a bp to the other

[faint pasture]

Because you have 2 timelines running AT THE SAME TIME.

Have one input cancel the other timeline if you must use timelines to do this

If you press E then Q, the E timeline is reversing, while the Q timeline is going forward. They are both updating your lean (of course only the later one in the frame is what you see)

[dense cargo]

If y dont sée what i mean i advise you to search UP how to make a interface message on ytb , its p common to use them , it have other ways to pass a variable trough différent blueprints but to me its thé easiest

[visual crest]

Ok thanks I will do that

[modest monolith]

That's why I have the branch nodes.. to not make them run at the same time.. like if I press E during Q it won't run the timeline.. but it does anyway

[visual crest]

What I am trying to do is make a power up that once you pick it up it makes it so you can sprint

[modest monolith]

SORTED!! the timeline object references were inverted

Finally

[visual crest]

I thought it be as easy as making a branch with a unlock variable that is triggered by the powerup to be made true. But as you can see the pick up can't access that variable

[faint pasture]

Or you can try just doing it like this.

Depends on how much leaning you do and how much it must blend with other state but I really like doing stuff this way

[modest monolith]

I'm doing a lean of 0.2 seconds

very fast and smooth nothing very clucnky

cluncky

[faint pasture]

So what happens if you're leaning right and then press Q?

do you snap to center then begin left lean or what

[modest monolith]

I peek behind walls et cetera like horror games

No

My camera just rotates left or right

and moves also

[faint pasture]

I mean if you're leaning one way then try lean the other

[grim kraken]

Hey I'm having a little trouble with using sockets at the moment, does anyone here know how to detach actors from sockets. If you think you may know please let me know and I am willing to go into more detail if need be.

[faint pasture]

what happens

[faint pasture]

Just detach it from its parent

[modest monolith]

I mean with my setup it used to change trasform also.. but I couldn't make it block the other input so i just copied this one

[faint pasture]

you're attached AT a socket

[dense cargo]

Ok so basicly, you have your Gem , once you pick it up or Walk on it , you send thé interface message ( interface allows you to communicate between blueprints , lets Say you create a function on your interface : Boost Speed on pick up ) and on your character bp , you will have an évent( since théy share thé same interface ) that would be called : Évent Boost on pickup annd then u put a higher mouvement Speed on your char with a delay

[modest monolith]

Now if i lean right while leaning left nothing happens

I can't because branch

[faint pasture]

Branchless my dude. Try my approach.

[grim kraken]

what nodes should i use to do that?? im quite new to blueprint so i do apologise

[faint pasture]

Just map Q and E to inputaxis Lean and away you go

[modest monolith]

Where are inputs ?

[faint pasture]

Inputaxis Lean

[visual crest]

OK thanks Ill try

[faint pasture]

you can get axis values whenever you want

don't need to use an axis event

[modest monolith]

lemme try

[faint pasture]

I don't use axis events at all, just Tick -> handle all axis inputs -> update

[dense cargo]

Hope i helped im on phone atm 🤣 sorrey

[visual crest]

ok np

[modest monolith]

How do i get that "Get Lean"?

[faint pasture]

axis value

Lean would be an axis you make in your input settings

just like MoveForward and MoveRight and AimPitch and AimYaw etc

[modest monolith]

I have action mapping

[faint pasture]

Yeah so make it an axis instead or additionaly

[modest monolith]

XDDD

bro i have no knowledge about this finterp and stuff

i can't figure out what ur trying me to do

XD

I'm in burnout

[dawn gazelle]

Well, you don't need to use event tick in this case. Your Input Axis fires on tick by itself

Adjust the interp speed to see some results.

[queen sphinx]

@modest monolith https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DsgnAtvzZHg The WTF explanations are pretty good. He breaks down just the one function.

[long whale]

Hi, there is still no setting for default blueprint comment background color right?

[dense cargo]

Not as far as ik , i just copy paste them with color n font size

[long whale]

ah ok

I really like the dark gray in UE5's template blueprints

[mossy perch]

& FlatNodes

Should be a crime to use white comments per default

[dense cargo]

U kidding me

Its a ue5 thing or 4 aswell ?

[visual crest]

The interface keeps asking me for a target but I don't know how to make my BP_ThirdpersionCharactor its target

NVM I am dump

had to use my cast to

[broken wadi]

You added the interface to your class default ya?

[loud cipher]

Anyone know how i can make the impulse directional?

I am using a linetrace, i want the impulse to push the mesh bones (physical animation) based on what angle the linetrace hit the bone

I was using a rand float in range before by splitting the pin and it just moved the limb forward backward randomly but i want to be able to make it so that the limb is pushed in the direction its hit from

Any guidance appreciated thanks

[trim matrix]

hello everyone, by chance would any of you know any good tutorials going over weapon systems? (ex. Picking up weapons, dropping weapons, bullet spread, magazine etc..) thank you in advance!

[queen sphinx]

@loud cipher I use this on my enemies. The point of impact is where the bullet hits the target.

[loud cipher]

Thank you very much

is your hit location the same as impact pont?

[queen sphinx]

this is only triggered when the enemy hit Zero HP

[loud cipher]

point*

[loud cipher]

Ahhh i see

Thank you

[queen sphinx]

I believe so, this is the blueprint for the bullet.

[loud cipher]

Yess it works

Yeah

[queen sphinx]

@trim matrix Not sure if it is the best, but has been helpful to me. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL4G2bSPE_8um-3MIHOTwFwjWZdWO24S9O

and happy to hear it worked.

[loud cipher]

I have also been wondering, i have made a simple dismemberment system using break constraints, is it possible to have the animation stop playing on those broken constraints?

[queen sphinx]

MMMMM... I might need to go look up that dismemberment system.... Picturing My donkey toy head flying off due to a head shot.

[trim matrix]

Ill take a look at these thank you

[queen sphinx]

hahah that is pretty funny.

[loud cipher]

loool

[queen sphinx]

would not be bad to keep the movement going if it was like a tentacle monster.

[loud cipher]

ikr but unfortunately its going to be a zombie :(

[queen sphinx]

maybe not the feet, but the arms?

[loud cipher]

I think so, maybe ill play around with the physics asset

i was hoping that there was some possible way in the Animbp to have states for crawling and stuff depending on the limbs broken

[queen sphinx]

wish I could help you on that, But animations was one of the last things I was going to learn.

[dense cargo]

U managed to do what u wanted ?

[naive stag]

If i attached lots of actors to one actor and i want to hide that one actor, do I need to for each loop it?

[harsh tartan]

I created a reference to an actor i spawned so i could reference the spawned actor elsewhere in the blueprint without dragging a big ugly line from the initial spawn node but its not working the same as just doing the big ugly direct wiring

does this not work?

out of order pictures

[broken wadi]

The white pins on the second screenshot are not connected, so body reference is never set

[harsh tartan]

Ooooh

Thank you very much that was silly lol

[cinder thunder]

@gentle urchin Just got around to testing your nodes. They worked like a charm. I did have to replace the rotation ones with the "Control Rotation" nodes. I am in business now. I owe you a 6 pack.

[junior hedge]

thats a zombie alright

maybe too much

[zealous moth]

@naive stag no you can hide children

[naive stag]

how?

[zealous moth]

Set component visibility and then set apply to children as true

[naive stag]

what node do I use to make an actor a children of another actor?

[zealous moth]

Child actor component?

Or are we talking about different things?

[naive stag]

well you see

im trying to make a chunk based loading system. And im looking for an efficient way to set visibility/collision for every actor that is part of the chunk without having to use 'For Each Loop'

Im not sure though how I am supposed to make an actor part of chunk

I tried attach and child but that didnt really work because I still had to use 'For Each Loop'

[trim matrix]

Hey, I was wondering if anyone knows how to grab a specific player within a player start? So, all the players are using the same pawn character. I would like to know how I can assign the specific character within the specific player start a tag.

[visual crest]

I am trying to set up a double tap system and it works but only once and then after the first time it does nothing?

[junior hedge]

try play from start

also are you doing anything to change your fov back?

[visual crest]

yes

just zoom out and in thing to test atm

[junior hedge]

try play from start

[visual crest]

off of what node?

[visual crest]

ah

now it don't do any thing lol

[junior hedge]

what are the values in your timeline

tell me all of them

[visual crest]

ok I got it

thanks

[junior hedge]

what was wrong?

[visual crest]

..... I was hiting the wrong Butten lol

play from start did work

[junior hedge]

alright

glad to hear it

[visual crest]

Ok so what I am trying to make is sort of a magic dash-teleport a few feet away

but now I can't get the teleport to work

[junior hedge]

why not just set world location

also try printing the return boolean

[visual crest]

return boolean?

[visual crest]

print what? Like print string?

[junior hedge]

yes

[visual crest]

yea its not prininting

I am guessing because I don't have a target?

this should give me a massage ?

but it is not

[junior hedge]

target is actor

why did you connect the boolean to print to screen?

that probably means its false

try picking a different location and see if it says true

[visual crest]

Huh? I am so sorry I don't understand. what actor? and what different location?

[junior hedge]

the target is actor so that isnt the problem

you connected the "Print to Screen" variable to your boolean, so if the boolean was false it wouldnt print anything

disconnect that and tell me

what it says

[visual crest]

I got it 100 value was just not enough to do any thing that was what was wrong lol

Sorry

[junior hedge]

it's because it was teleporting to that coordinate (Which probably had a floor or wall on it) so it didn't teleport it there due to COLLISION

[visual crest]

ah

[ocean meadow]

Can anybody assist me in my inventory item overlap problem? everytime I drag and drop my first item over my second item, it overlaps it completely, not sure if it is a slot index problem or what

T_T

[ocean meadow]

I'm sorry for asking this, I hope I don't come off as obnoxious! ^^

[gentle urchin]

Sweet, good job!

[silent rune]

How to check static mesh actor is in viewport?

[drifting peak]

look at your components tab

if you are in BP then its on your left

if u are on map then its on right

@silent rune

[silent rune]

i mean check actor is in camera view

not in level

[drifting peak]

check if actor is in front of camera while running game?

[silent rune]

yes

[drifting peak]

do a cone

[silent rune]

wanna check actor is culling or not

[drifting peak]

or line trace

but cone is easier

check if its in radius

then check again if the player can actually see the object

[obtuse herald]

There is a node called 'was actor recently renderd'

[silent rune]

oh thats it

thanks

[obtuse herald]

It will also return true if you can see the shadow of the actor or if the actor is just a bit out of view tho

[gentle urchin]

True when rendered

:p

[sharp steppe]

If I have an array of characters, what node do I use to output them individually to set each of their variables?

[wintry geyser]

For Each Loop

[sharp steppe]

Thanks for responding. I tried the ForEachLoop, but confused how to convert the Array Element output into individual variables I can set.

[faint pasture]

Array element is the character. Do character stuff to it.

[sharp steppe]

Ahhh I get it. After a day of troubleshooting… Thank you so much

[cedar remnant]

Hi everyone! I am trying to find a way to remap my controller Dead Zone settings using the Enhanced Input Action system. My goal is to expose the lower and upper threshold as variables I can access through UI. Any help or direction with this would be amazing!

For a better view I do have "is player mappable" checked to "true" but I can't seem to any of these variables to a UI. Any help would be appreciated!

[cedar crypt]

how can i force a timeline to finish?

i can't figure it out

[tight schooner]

Force it to finish for what purpose? I guess you can have a custom event that stops the timeline and then executes the "completed" stuff (use Sequence node)

[gentle urchin]

Ref the timeline -> stop, and you can ditch the sequence 😄

Or

Does it execute complete

If you call stop on it?

[tight schooner]

Idk for sure, but I would suspect not cuz you can resume the timeline and fiddle with the time, right?

[gentle urchin]

Very true

[tight schooner]

Anyway, @cedar crypt

[cedar crypt]

https://i.imgur.com/xQEXPcN.png

that doesn't work

when i release the key it does not reverse

[tight schooner]

Based on the screenshot you think it would... Dunno

[surreal peak]

The settings on those timelines seem strange

Is the top one looping and the bottom one set to auto play ?

[cedar crypt]

yes

but even with that turned off it doesn't work

[junior hedge]

Maybe you should share the keys in the timeline

[cedar crypt]

https://i.imgur.com/d6YESQY.png

that doesn't work

[junior hedge]

No like the timeline keys

Like the values

[cedar crypt]

?

[tight schooner]

Show us the timeline

[cedar crypt]

https://i.imgur.com/RiAO2nZ.png

really simple

[surreal peak]

Hmm

Do the pressed and released events even call?

[cedar crypt]

the timeline does work

wait

[surreal peak]

So one issue here can be

That the second timeline keeps running

And overrides your frist

First

But 0.25 seconds is quite low

So that would only happen if timed un lucky

But theoretically you want to stop the other timeline

So it doesn't set the Lean value at the same time

[cedar crypt]

this works

https://i.imgur.com/p9Jattc.png

but it just shoots back

[surreal peak]

Yeah cause you set new value to 0

The lerp then goes from 0 to t0

Sort of

Ohh wait a second

Can you please do the old setup agai

And disconnect the Leap getter from the lerp

[cedar crypt]

https://imgur.com/a/1qR9MWg

[surreal peak]

The Lerp should only have fixed values

E.g 0 to 45

Not Lean to 45

If you remove that from the setup you posted before this one ( the one with two timelines in the screenshot ) it sh5work

Should work*

[cedar crypt]

it works

but then not with 2 timelines

one needs to finish before the other one is done

i am going to bed

i have been awake too long

[surreal peak]

Yeah that's what I meant with having to stop the other one

[hollow schooner]

I just wanted to check the Function you created. To be safe, I connected the Input to the nodes directly as I dont think I did it correctly. I created an input seperately from a variable in the scene that both have the same name, but I doubt they are actually speaking to one another.

I'd also like to know what the "Select Int" does here. Should I keep the empty slot on 0 for all buttons or what is that slot for?

[gentle urchin]

It selects int based on our bool conditio

[hollow schooner]

@gentle urchin After connecting the input to the nodes directly, the other tabs in the Exterior layout work now. The INT menu buttons are now gone, but i suppose thats an index issue

[gentle urchin]

So if the bool is true, it picks A

And if its false, it return the new index

[hollow schooner]

So it always needs to be on 0?

[gentle urchin]

It need to be the index of which things are invisible

In my setup it was 0

[hollow schooner]

But seeing that I have like 6 menu buttons for the Exterior, do I need to have 6 nodes there to turn them all off?

[gentle urchin]

No,

Thats what the check is for

So whoever calls the node,

If we're already on their index,

Simply hide it

[hollow schooner]

So the 0 is just the "hide" option?

[gentle urchin]

Yes

[hollow schooner]

but for that to work, dont I need to add an empty node to each hierachy tree?

Otherwise index 0 is the first in the list, right?

[gentle urchin]

For the WS Controls only

Since the other one is always visible

But yes, you do need it

[hollow schooner]

Like this then?

[gentle urchin]

YES,

Ops, caps

But on the other switch...

Not the ControlPanel

[hollow schooner]

ah

Hmm

Ah, then I obviously need to update the onclick indexes

[gentle urchin]

Yes

Was about to say

[hollow schooner]

Thanks for your patience. I'm like a toddler in his baby shoes at the moment lol

[gentle urchin]

Make sure the visibility is not set to hidden

On either the ws_controls or any of the sub widgets

[hollow schooner]

YES. Okay, 90% there. The EXT Layout works perfect.

When I go to the Interior layout, the color swabs of are available, but the menu below to choose "color dashboard" or "color seats" is gone lol. Let me check the indexes

okay

[gentle urchin]

Sweet. Getting closer :)

Kiddo is soon sleeping. Then ill be avaliable at the pc lol

[hollow schooner]

OMG

IT WORKS

you are a true hero

Ah, one more thing lol

When I now click the camera Icon to go from the interior back to the exterior, it displays one of the interior color menus. Sounds like an index issue, right?

[gentle urchin]

Yepp

I simply set it to hide the controls meny when i transitioned

[hollow schooner]

What is this for?

[hollow schooner]

Ah, how did you do that

[gentle urchin]

Just set the index to 0

The two nodes you showed

Replace with our function

And set new index to 0

[hollow schooner]

This is fantastic. I think I will need to study it over and over again to fully grasp what is going on, but I REALLY appreciate the patience and help that you keep giving me.

[gentle urchin]

Its working ?

[hollow schooner]

Yes

[gentle urchin]

Nice, gj!

Now to animate it 😁

[hollow schooner]

I did in fact change the visibility of the main menu buttons to hidden, because I have a cool animation setup that animates the opacity of the buttons when the application starts.

Yeah, animating a fade between interior and exterior buttons would be the next step 😄

[gentle urchin]

The only thing you need to animate

Is the entire switches

So thats practical 😄

Render opacity and perhaps render Y scale or smth

[hollow schooner]

I'll try that tonight, need to get going to work. Thanks again dude, you're awesome!

[vast crow]

Why do I have to recompile every dependent blueprint one by one on function signature change oh my god

[gentle urchin]

Sounds like a library change

[lime fulcrum]

Oh my!
I've just realized the best way to handle menus when pausing a game. Since Listen for input does not work on paused game D:

[gentle urchin]

Or lots of interconnections

[gentle urchin]

Share this realisation !

I just dumped time dialation to 0.001

Who needs real pause anyways 😅

[lime fulcrum]

On your KEY EVENT, put a condition liek a BOOL that says "In Menu" then set the variable inside your pawn that is a reference to the widget, so you can use it on Menu, or inventory etc... Then instead of using the inputs as you would do to move the character, use an interface and send commands over the interface message to the referenced widget

then the wisget should set back the BOOL when you leave the interface so the commands goes backj to character movement

of couse the KEY EVENTS have to have checked "Execute whe npaused"

😛

@gentle urchin I tried Time dilation but it's not good for timelines that don't depend on them

I use timelines to modulate time dilation, of course those timelines have the checkbox IGNORE TIME DILATIONM off for obvious reasons. So they would be executed all the time

[gentle urchin]

Try the OnKeyDown in the widget while paused, I think that one works

[lime fulcrum]

that did not work on my widget for some reason. And I dunno why. Even tried all input modes

If you mean this one of course

[gentle urchin]

Game and UI

Hmm surprised if that doesnt work

Rerouting inputs is ofcourse an option

Just doesnt feel very... gracious

[neon forge]

Is there a way to bypass a Layered Blend per Bone node when I play an anim montage from a bp? I have a bp set up to trigger an animation (kneeling down to pick something up) and only the top half of the animation plays on the skeleton.

[fallen glade]

Can multiple character share an animation blueprint (with different animations) without relying to external plugins such as this? https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/product/universal-monster

they say it's 100% BP but how can that be

[gentle urchin]

Doesnt rely on the animation?

Wasnt there recently something about parented shared animation bps ?

[fallen glade]

If there was I completely missed it! I was holding off making more characters in the hope of being able to simplify the process

[gentle urchin]

https://dev.epicgames.com/community/learning/tutorials/8kO6/share-animations-between-skeletons

Havnt read or checked it out in detail, so it may not apply

But sounds relevant

[fallen glade]

mmmm i'll give it a whirl after work, if that's not it I guess I can shell 120(💀 ) poundaroos and report back

[vast crow]

FStructs don't have generated ToString conversions in blueprints...

[marsh crescent]

when I release the sprint key(shift) the character still goes at the sprinting speed, I have made sure walk speed is much lower than sprint speed, please help

[marsh heron]

Hey, I'm trying to interpolate a character's rotation in multiplayer, but for some reason the interpolation is 2x faster on server than on client... I've been searching for hours and I can't find a solution, please help...

[gentle urchin]

Show the values

[gentle urchin]

Does it change with the number of clients?

[marsh crescent]

sprint is 1500 and walk is 500

[marsh heron]

I'll try

[gentle urchin]

And the default speed?

[marsh crescent]

wdym

sorry I'm new

[gentle urchin]

Whats rhe default max walk speed

[marsh crescent]

500

[gentle urchin]

Set in the movement component ?

[marsh heron]

Yeah for some reason it works completely fine with 1 host player and 2+ client players, but when there's 1 host and 1 client, the client rotates faster...

[gentle urchin]

What are your animation blendspace values for sprinting ?

[marsh crescent]

600

[gentle urchin]

Sounds like a rpc issue making the event fire twice for the client

If you printstring it, you can probably verify this

[marsh heron]

what should I printstring? the delta time?

[gentle urchin]

That'd be fine

[marsh heron]

alr

[gentle urchin]

Anything that would prove that it prints twice as often really

You have adjusted the rotation rate for deltatime i assume?

[marsh heron]

wdym?

I'm using finterpto to change the yaw of the character

[marsh crescent]

I changed it to 500 and it worked thanks

[gentle urchin]

Good. That takes deltatime in consideration

[marsh heron]

This is my blueprint for the rotation

[gentle urchin]

Dont you need is Authority switch there ?

Only the server should be allowed to rotate it, no? Assuming its replicated

Dangerous with assumptions in multiplayer, i know 😂

[marsh heron]

Oh well I can try lol

I added the switch but now the player is not rotating at all, I guess I'm missing something important here

on the client I mean

on the host it's fine

[gentle urchin]

The actor is set to replicate?

[marsh heron]

oh

is that an option???

[gentle urchin]

Is it not ?

😅

Im brown with these things tho,

Probably better to ask in #multiplayer before i push you further down the wrong road lol

[marsh heron]

Lol I have no idea what I am doing actually

So I'm happy for your advice

[toxic thunder]

the screenshot includes proof that the cast fails because it's getting passed a "None" object though. this means either GetController doesn't actually get a controller when run on a pawn/vehicle, or my pawn isn't actually a pawn (though that'd make me wonder why the compiler accepts this).

I found a workaround though. This seems like a bug.

(I can just update and store the value I need in the pawn, then poll it from the PlayerController, instead of pushing the data from the pawn to the PlayerController)

[umbral merlin]

are you trying to blow up the sun?

XDDD

[queen sequoia]

Hello, I have a casting problem, im using ALS community version and im trying to cast to my camera behavior inside of the player controller to add zooming in and out, only problem is I cant find an object that would work for the cast

[trim matrix]

so im making evey time i press s it would go down and w up but i can only press each ones only one time how i fix

[tawdry surge]

You need a reference to your camera behavior object in order to type cast the reference

[queen sequoia]

ohhhh ok Ill Try To Fix That

[tawdry surge]

@trim matrix you're not adding to the location/rotation of the gun, you're just setting it. So pressing s or w is gonna just move it between two positions.
If you want to keep going every time you hit the buttons you'll have to get the current transform and add your offset to it every time you hit a button

[trim matrix]

how do i do that

[tawdry surge]

You either need to get the current rotation and "combine" it with the offset rotation and set that as your new rotation
Or use the add rotation node

[blissful widget]

^^^ You're setting the value to either 0 or 0.1, from what I can see. What you want to do instead is add on (offset * deltaTime) to the current elavation, and then set the elavation to that

[trim matrix]

can you help me with that sorry im kinda new also thank you man

[tawdry surge]

I'm not at my pc yet, but I'll drop a screen shot in a bit if you're still stuck

[trim matrix]

im still thanks man

[gentle urchin]

Damn pc's. Dont we have portables yet ?

Im always facing the same issue lol

[tawdry surge]

Not that I'd wanna use with unreal

[trim matrix]

can you dm me when your ready:D

[tawdry surge]

Always feel bad for people who only have laptops trying to get into unreal. Must be torture

[gentle urchin]

Agreed

Its horrible

[blissful widget]

Basically this

It's just the BP editor that's shit house, scrolling sucsk

[gentle urchin]

I remote desktop to my stationary if I reallly have to

[trim matrix]

ah okay let me try

[blissful widget]

My laptop's good and works well, but I haven't figured out a way to pan without the awkward second mouse 'button' that's actually a virtual area

[blissful widget]

Swap getter and setter for your actual variable of course

[gentle urchin]

Sounds like something an external mouse would fix?

Mine only works during turbo hours

I hate turbo shit.

It never lasts :p

[blissful widget]

I'm using it on the couch while the partner's home and to hang with doggo and shit. If I wanted a desktop setup, I'd go plug it in upstairs.

Oh I've got a power cord receding into the couch haha, ez access and always full power... ed lap melting

[trim matrix]

but the set varibe is in the animation how put that in the blueprint bc in bp i can only get the call function

[blissful widget]

You can still use the Set variable node, I just had the non-function setter to demonstrate, as I don't have your variables

If you don't have the Get Variable function, you might need to create it as well

[trim matrix]

but if i make one how i make it to change the thing in the animation bp

[blissful widget]

You create the function on the animation BP, and call it from... wherever you're calling it from, looks like the player BP

Eventually you may want an interface to let you perform this action on multiple different guns, for example, without caring about which gun it is. For now, get it working 🙂

[trim matrix]

but i cant set it in the animation blueprint @blissful widget

[blissful widget]

Do not handle input outside the player BP, you'll get mega confused

Just finish up the way you were doing, it's a reasonable start

[trim matrix]

okay im kinda confused now😯

[blissful widget]

By?

[trim matrix]

it is not the player bp it is in there

[blissful widget]

Where's this screenshot from?

[trim matrix]

in this bp

[trim matrix]

and here is where the rotation and elevation is controlled and that is what i want to make w up and s down @blissful widget

[feral parrot]

guys how to control the speed when the character stops completely? It has some velocity and for 0.01 sec it goes to the directions it was previously going.

[cedar crypt]

how do i fix this?

https://imgur.com/a/Famza9I