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Kharzette · Nov 4, 2020

Grabbed that glass one. I want to see if it is sorting. I'm still sorting in my stuff and it is slow and gobliny

Ravishing · Nov 4, 2020

Kharzette said:
Grabbed that glass one. I want to see if it is sorting. I'm still sorting in my stuff and it is slow and gobliny

I have no idea what you mean

I'm not a programmer.

But I imagine the water material is doing similar things to this:

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Kharzette · Nov 4, 2020

In old traditional rendering you have to draw all alpha surfaces back to front.

This is my main sort stuff, with lots of code for a planar sort. Distance sorting works well for small surfaces but I use planar for big stuff like huge windows or lakes or big lava pools.

GrogLibs/AlphaPool.cs at master · Kharzette/GrogLibs

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I know there are modern solutions that let you draw alphas in any order and the shader takes care of it somehow.

LachiusTZ · Nov 11, 2020

Is the marketplace fucked up? I cant navigate it at all . . .

Or do I need to reinstall?

Ravishing · Nov 11, 2020

LachiusTZ said:
Is the marketplace fucked up? I cant navigate it at all . . .

Or do I need to reinstall?

Not sure, I typically use the web browser for the marketplace. Epic client is too slow for me

LachiusTZ · Dec 27, 2020

Anyone able to debug something for me?

I have hit the wall.

Ravishing · Dec 27, 2020

LachiusTZ said:
Anyone able to debug something for me?

I have hit the wall.

If it's something you can post or ask here then I'll try to help

LachiusTZ · Dec 27, 2020

Doing:

Have:

Getting:
Blueprint Runtime Error: "Accessed None trying to read property CallFunc_Conv_FloatToText_ReturnValue_2". Blueprint: StatBar Function: Execute Ubergraph Stat Bar Graph: EventGraph Node: SetText (Text)
Blueprint Runtime Error: "Accessed None trying to read property OwningPawn". Blueprint: StatBar Function: Execute Ubergraph Stat Bar Graph: EventGraph Node: SetText (Text)
Blueprint Runtime Error: "Attempt to assign variable through None". Blueprint: StatBar Function: Execute Ubergraph Stat Bar Graph: EventGraph Node: SetText (Text)
Blueprint Runtime Error: "Accessed None trying to read property CallFunc_Conv_FloatToText_ReturnValue_1". Blueprint: StatBar Function: Execute Ubergraph Stat Bar Graph: EventGraph Node: SetText (Text)
Blueprint Runtime Error: "Accessed None trying to read property OwningPawn". Blueprint: StatBar Function: Execute Ubergraph Stat Bar Graph: EventGraph Node: SetText (Text)
Blueprint Runtime Error: "Attempt to assign variable through None". Blueprint: StatBar Function: Execute Ubergraph Stat Bar Graph: EventGraph Node: SetText (Text)
Blueprint Runtime Error: "Accessed None trying to read property CallFunc_Conv_FloatToText_ReturnValue". Blueprint: StatBar Function: Execute Ubergraph Stat Bar Graph: EventGraph Node: SetText (Text)
Blueprint Runtime Error: "Accessed None trying to read property OwningPawn". Blueprint: StatBar Function: Execute Ubergraph Stat Bar Graph: EventGraph Node: Set Percent
Blueprint Runtime Error: "Attempt to assign variable through None". Blueprint: StatBar Function: Execute Ubergraph Stat Bar Graph: EventGraph Node: Set Percent
Blueprint Runtime Error: "Accessed None trying to read property OwningPawn". Blueprint: StatBar Function: Execute Ubergraph Stat Bar Graph: EventGraph Node: Set Percent

The owning pawn was previous a cast to / set self to owning pawn, that they changed in the tutorial. Then they go change a bunch of shit and it works, but I either missed something or there is a material difference between 4.11 and 4.26.

Been at this one spot for like a month (took a break, tried to fix it, failed, did another tutorial, tried to fix it, failed, repeat)

LachiusTZ · Dec 27, 2020

Changing it back to this gives me a better result, but still a non functional one . . . The stat bars display, but do not report actual values.

Zero errors when running w/ this set up as well

Ravishing · Dec 27, 2020

LachiusTZ said:
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Changing it back to this gives me a better result, but still a non functional one . . . The stat bars display, but do not report actual values.

Zero errors when running w/ this set up as well

2nd method is the way to do it to prevent those errors because without the cast you aren't giving the variable an object to call. So although the variable is set as your pawn type, you still need to set the variable.

Regarding updating.

You are firing off Event Construct which only fires one time, on creation of the widget.

This is fine to connect the construct to load in the stats immediately but to update you need to create events you can call when needed.

Or the lazy way, and less efficient way is to bind the widget variables, which there is a button that says "bind" in most cases and it will create a function that runs on tick to keep checking for changes.

Good for beginner but eventually you want to manually call events so you aren't wasting cycles

LachiusTZ · Dec 27, 2020

Its not loading in all the variables for some reason.

Instead of Intel / Str / whatever I get "StatName" and no value for each stat.

There is something dc'd somewhere, and I cant find it.

Really need someone that will work cheap to debug / build some basic shit.

Ravishing · Dec 27, 2020

LachiusTZ said:
Its not loading in all the variables for some reason.

Instead of Intel / Str / whatever I get "StatName" and no value for each stat.

There is something dc'd somewhere, and I cant find it.

Really need someone that will work cheap to debug / build some basic shit.

How are you changing the index for the stats? I assume it's default to 0 which only pulls in the 1st entry for each array. You could run a for loop to get all of them or update the index variable and rerun the event.

Personally I'd setup a datatable or a curvetable for stats, but that's even more advanced.

LachiusTZ · Dec 28, 2020

Ravishing said:
How are you changing the index for the stats? I assume it's default to 0 which only pulls in the 1st entry for each array. You could run a for loop to get all of them or update the index variable and rerun the event.

Personally I'd setup a datatable or a curvetable for stats, but that's even more advanced.

I'm at the point where I can recreate things I see, and kind of explain them.

Not able to actually *do* shit. Lol

Ravishing · Dec 28, 2020

LachiusTZ said:
I'm at the point where I can recreate things I see, and kind of explain them.

Not able to actually *do* shit. Lol

I would work up an example but I've been really busy building my game. Maybe I'll find time to do something for you.

Ravishing · Dec 28, 2020

Also, are these stats for an AI character?

LachiusTZ · Dec 28, 2020

Ravishing said:
Also, are these stats for an AI character?

Yes

Ravishing · Dec 28, 2020

The AIS character holds your stat arrays, how are you populating the stats? Did you manually add some values to the arrays?

Screenshoting the AIS character blueprint, particularly any logic with the arrays, might help solve this

LachiusTZ · Dec 28, 2020

Ravishing said:
The AIS character holds your stat arrays, how are you populating the stats? Did you manually add some values to the arrays?

Screenshoting the AIS character blueprint, particularly any logic with the arrays, might help solve this

Manually added to array.

This is the AIS_Character:

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They all show default values in the details pane.

Its going to be something incredibly dumb and simple.

Ravishing · Dec 29, 2020

LachiusTZ said:
Manually added to array.

This is the AIS_Character:

Ravishing 001 posted by anonymous | blueprintUE | PasteBin For Unreal Engine

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View attachment 325825

They all show default values in the details pane.

Its going to be something incredibly dumb and simple.

Are you setting values in your arrays manually like this:

Where the 0.0 = some stat #?

I don't know if this will help, or if I can even attach a .zip file here, but if so, I quickly setup a stat system that uses a Datatable and populates everything dynamically.

It's probably not the most efficient or best way, but maybe it will help

Also, AI might be a little more complex with how things are done, but in general it's not much different.

Just unzip the file and put the entire "stats" folder in your Content folder.
Then in UE4, drag the BP_Character into your level, set the "auto possess Player" to 0 instead of disabled, hit Play.
K key to update All stats
H key to update just health

I tried to comment everything

LachiusTZ · Feb 1, 2021

Ravishing

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You guys mind taking a look at "Easy systems" survival kit and tell me what you think?

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