I'm gonna be missing something dumb aren

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Lets keep it in here

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You're right, good call

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this looks fine to me

I assume TotalSpawnCount has a valid amount ?

so does SpawnFrequency ?

And "Speed" ?

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Frequency: 1
Total Spawn: 3
Speed

speed disappeared?

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speed is in the farm truck

if you want to expose it, you can

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right

its 25

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25 is pretty slow

extremely slow

mine was 1500

1500uu per second

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Oof, okay lemme bump it up and see if they spawn

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(they should still spawn)

Lifespan is incorrect

should be Lenght / Speed

gives you a value in seconds

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changed the addition to division, upped the speed but am met with , the value returning error is at 150 - is that also drastically too low?

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what does the error say

you clipped out the important part 😄

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i was wrong its the spline ref variable (woulda seen that if i didn't clip out the important part, eh?)

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so, does the thing spawn at all?

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negative, no dice

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is BP_Spline in the world ?`

and does it have a distance?

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here ya are

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does it have a visible mesh aswell?

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i've no skeletal mesh assigned!

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just select anything 😄

so we can see it

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I need to get a banana for scale

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haha

but does it wooork 😄

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i'm gettin' the same error on the spline ref in the truckBP, i must have something messed up in the SplineBP?

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it seem to be there

refresh the spawnactor node

and make sure it doesnt disappear

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she's still there, i'm still gettin' errors Here's the splineBP... am i not passing on the spline itself correctly?

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you are, but im seeing one animal at editor time

and that one will ofcourse not have the correct spline ref

if you want it to work

you must select it in the editor

then find the details panel

then find the "SplineRef" variable

select the "picker" next to it

and pick the spline in the level

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The animal is the skel mesh in the SplineBP, not the actual actor being spawned - if that matters

though i've no spline ref to select

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wait what

SplineBP should just be a regular Actor

not a character/pawn

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heard, swapped that but still met with the error over in TruckBP (which does have a mesh)

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the Splineref in the TruckBP is fed during spawn

Is this your general "Truck BP" ?

that you've spawned in the level manually?

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I did reuse an old asset that didn't have much in it - i'll make a quick character and just throw the alpaca on it

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Its fine i was just curious

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heard

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all those spawned manually will ofcourse not have the spline ref

so they will toss errors

just move the "tick" validator to before CurrentDistance is set

since we're using it to read the spline length

that should remove all the errors

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We're cookin', errors are gone but i see nothing spawning. Let me throw a print string in there and see if its atleast alive

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! good call

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print string successfully triggers after spawn actor in the spline, i messed with the spawn scale to make sure it wasn't massive or the size of an atom but that doesn't seeeem to be it

it does however delete itself after awhile during simulation

MAAAAAAAAAAN

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Thats rhe setLifespan part

World location

Not local? 😂

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i forgot to reset the default actor after switching the bloody variable in the splineBP (it's back to local i was desperate 😂 )

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😂😂😂

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what happens on discord stays on discord, got it?

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Fine, fine

Would make such a great story

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what does Current Distance do, by the way?

A modern Synecdoche, for sure. Polanski would be jealous.

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It just tracks where we are, on the spline

Distamce travelled... Milage.. etc

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Ah! I should leave that variable at zero then?

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Y

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I have no idea to be honest

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Feel free to test it

Set it to 200

See what happens

It will jump to 200cm onto the spline ^^

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ooooooohhhh

last little thing and i think i'm... i'm good. Holy crap the progress made in 2 hours it's unbelievable.

It seems my spline deletes before all 3 actors spawn and complete their loop. I have this in the Truck_BP

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Spline deletes?

You got DestroyActor in SplineBP?

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nope, as far as my (admittedly bad) eyes are aware i'm just as your code is - it'll spawn 2 actors and then after say... a second they just fall, spline goes byebye and the third actor spawns at 0,0,0

i tried making it an open loop and some other junk, but it seems to happen exactly the same way errytime

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Was bp spline a new blueprint?

Show logic again?

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Yup! While the truck had a health variable already - the spline is fresh

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Check Class defaults ->initial lifeSpan

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ah, set to Zero. is it safe to make a variable of that or could i potentially create issues later?

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0 is fine

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ah heard, troubleshooting

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Then im unsure what deletes it

Nothing in the code you show me does destroy it

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yeaaah.. i changed the spawn frequency to see if it would stay alive if it took ages to spawn something but even then it pops outta existence after a second or so 😆

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Makes no sense 😅

Isnt there some OnDestroyed event

Or event destroyed

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i put another one in the world map and they decided to work

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Huh

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good enough for me

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Oh damn 😂

Might have touched instanve settings then 🤣

Ah well all good

Better story yet to unfold

And never be told 😦

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shoulda reset the instance first to see!

hey, give it a few years and eventually it can be another project one of us starts and ... probably never finish.

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Thats the life of most gamedevs 😅

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I'm just glad to be away from any engines using Visual Basic 6 🤣 learning unreal has been a whoooole new world

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well best of luck in it! And with your game 🙂