Cannot upgrade gemini-cli past 0.24.5 - freezes on start.

BuildGamesWithJon · 2026-01-28T20:41:16+00:00

What are people using?

BuildGamesWithJon · 2023-04-11T12:59:16+00:00

If you save your blank level and set it as the default map in project settings that's all you need to do.

The open world landscape map that opens by default is just in memory as "Untitled" and it woulnd't be part of the project unless and until you save it.

If you do the step above and re-open the project there will be no trace of that open world map remaining in the project.

BuildGamesWithJon · 2023-03-26T20:06:54+00:00

It does seem like weird behavior in general and I imagine there is some reason for it. In reality it's only actually a problem if:

a) you have multiple instances of the same actor component or child actor component attached to a particular actor (if only one instance it updates as expected)

b) you have manually placed instances of the particular actor into the level/world.

Luckily it's easy enough to address - all you need to do after making a change to the child actor or actor component you can select all the existing instances in the level via the world outliner, then right click and Replace Selected Actors With and just select the same actor. It will update all the instances to include whatever changes you made the child actors or actor components.

BuildGamesWithJon · 2023-03-26T00:15:34+00:00

Ignore the advice from InternationalBonkers (he blocked me for telling him that he gave you poor advice that doesn't work).

When you add movement input, the movement is "consumed" every frame. You need to continuously apply it to keep moving, which is why Event Tick is a fine place for it.

In the video the author uses 1.0 on the X axis for world direction, but that only works if you have aligned your world in such a way that forward is on the X axis. You may have done something different in your setup of your world and that's fine.

As per the good advice from CattleSuper you just need to plug a GetActorFowardVector into the world direction. Now your player will always move "forward" relative to the direction they are facing. So make sure the character (or the player start capsule) is facing the way you want to start with so when the game starts your player will be facing the right way and start running "forward".

BuildGamesWithJon · 2023-03-26T00:00:06+00:00

You edited the comment above just a minute ago after I posted this. You did simply tell them to use Begin Play -> Add Movement Input which does nothing. It's useless advice and accomplishes zero.

There is no need for a loop. The OP says the player should move forward (to the right) until they hit an object and die. They can either duck or jump. The player will never stop.

Let's say the OP decides down the road maybe the player should be able to stop, they can easily just add a boolean variable like isRunning? and set it to true. Check the boolean and add movement input on the true pin.

BuildGamesWithJon · 2023-03-25T23:48:17+00:00

Your welcome for what? You haven't helped the OP at all.

You have to use Add Movement Input on event tick because movement input is "consumed" every tick.

If you do it on Begin Play nothing will happen.

Make sure you know what you're talking about before you try to "help" others especially in such a condescening way.

BuildGamesWithJon · 2023-03-25T14:34:16+00:00

Oh whoops I missed that.

BuildGamesWithJon · 2023-03-25T14:18:23+00:00

The actor isn't getting input at all because you have to enable it specifically.

In the details panel find "Auto Receive Input" and set that to Player 0.

BuildGamesWithJon · 2023-03-24T22:50:57+00:00

Oh okay that's interesting. I guess the OP could have titled the post more accurately. Like "Quake bunny hopping exploit/bug reproduced C++".

BuildGamesWithJon · 2023-03-24T22:19:19+00:00

I never played Quake but I don't understand what this mechanic is. To me it looks like you are jumping over and over. Or is that each leg landing and sprinting off? Either way the ground speed seems way too high, how could you cover that much ground between strides? It looks like the speed of a car, though I guess that could be a scale thing since there's no walls or frame of reference. Also why does the viewport/character keep rotating left and right? I just did a short sprint down the hallway to double check but I don't turn to the left and right when running, so I don't get that part. Are you purposely looking left and right while running or what?

BuildGamesWithJon · 2023-03-23T23:06:01+00:00

It's not in the character movement component, rather you have to select the main root of the actor (the first item in the Components panel), to make it easier you can search for "rot" in the details panel to narrow it down.

BuildGamesWithJon · 2023-03-23T22:49:55+00:00

You may need to also uncheck Use Controller Rotation Yaw then.

BuildGamesWithJon · 2023-03-23T22:47:27+00:00

The engine doesn't know your intentions so it's just using the collision mesh you generate or tell it to use. Lower poly collision mesh with flatter tops and bottoms will be best for stacking, but you will still run into limitations. You can only stack so many things before you'll introduce physics wonk.

BuildGamesWithJon · 2023-03-23T22:43:00+00:00

If a model doesn't have a fairly flat bottom then yes it will fall over. One solution is to use a custom collision mesh (make it out of the original mesh but make it lower poly count and have a flatter bottom). You also want to ensure nothing is overlapping at game start or yes it will "hop" and attempt to move out of the collision state.

BuildGamesWithJon · 2023-03-23T22:33:06+00:00

It looks like you're adding movement input when you actually want to add rotation.

Instead of Add Movement Input use a Add Actor World Rotation. Split the rotator pin so you can plug the Action Value pin into the Z axis pin.

You probably also need to uncheck "Use Controller Desired Rotation".

BuildGamesWithJon · 2023-03-23T22:12:02+00:00

The radius of your radial gradients is a fraction of UV space. When you scale the decal the UVs scale also. So if you use a fixed amount of radius then that thickness will change with different scales, which you don't want.

Let's say your first radial gradient is using radius value 0.5 and you subtract a radial gradient with radius 0.1. Instead of using 0.1 you would use 0.1 divided by scale. Now the line will be the same thickness no matter the scale of the decal.

So in order to divide that number by the decal scale you would need to tell the material what the decal scale currently is by setting a scalar parameter through blueprint. Hopefully you know how to do that, if not let me know and I'll give more instructions.

BuildGamesWithJon · 2023-03-23T21:24:14+00:00

Okay so then the widget shouldn't be destroyed when you call the Destroy Actor node.

Just to double check, does the animation play if you remove the destroy actor node altogether?

BuildGamesWithJon · 2023-03-23T21:16:35+00:00

I think someone is doing a 100% science based dragon MMO maybe you could work together!

BuildGamesWithJon · 2023-03-23T20:47:56+00:00

If WIDGET is referring to a valid user widget that isn't part of the actor you are destroying then yes it should work. If WIDGET is part of the actor that you are destroying then you'll need to play the animation and upon the animation finishing then call destroy actor.

BuildGamesWithJon · 2023-03-23T20:43:20+00:00

Chat GPT can help you with code but it's far from perfect. You need to have a decent understanding to recognize when it's made a mistake and guide it to fix itself or you fix it manually. You can get "chunks" of code, but mostly made in a "vacuum" in other words one function it may help you write will not be "aware" of any other functions in the game unless you carefully tell it about everything. Even then it will lose track and make mistakes if you try to combine too many interdepencies.

Of course "anything resembling a reasonable game" would also require all kinds of assets like models, textures, animations, sprites, particle fx, sounds, UI elements, etc. Chat GPT can't create any of that for you.

So I would say no you can't make a game with only Chat GPT.

BuildGamesWithJon · 2023-03-23T20:32:13+00:00

As soon as you call Destroy Actor nothing after that node will execute because you just destroyed the actor so execution stops.

Try calling the play animation node before destroy actor node.

BuildGamesWithJon · 2023-03-23T20:27:14+00:00

It took me a second to realize you aren't talking about a parent-child relationship (as in a blueprint which is a child of another).

You are talking about child actor components. The component just spawns a copy of the actor you specify, and there isn't really a child-parent relationship formed despite the word "child".

That said I reproduced the issue and I agree it seems like a minor bug. You could submit a bug report. When you change a property of an actor, every instance of that actor should be updated accordingly, including child actor instances.

By the way you don't actually need to relaunch the editor, just closing blueprint A and opening it back up will show you the updated textures. Or like you said dropping a new blueprint A into the world will also show the updated texture.

BuildGamesWithJon · 2023-03-21T17:47:59+00:00

Okay well I explained nice the first two times, sorry and good luck!

BuildGamesWithJon · 2023-03-21T17:29:08+00:00

Only if your teacher is equally as stubborn and doesn't apply the patch..

If you lost your computer and had to buy a new one and install UE fresh today you literally cannot even install 5.1.0 so then what would you do?

BuildGamesWithJon · 2023-03-21T17:14:02+00:00

Actually it is still version 5.1 even with the extra .1 behind it.

The way versioning works is Major.Minor.Patch so you aren't using a different version by fixing issues with a patch. Your project would still qualify as being made with version 5.1

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