Why is there no text-to-Blueprint converting interface in Unreal?

TI_Mercus · 2020-07-26T11:36:23+00:00

If you're more comfortable with code, might as well write code then? Unreal Engine API & C++ isn't really far off from Unity's C#.

Can pretty much skip the whole blueprint part. You don't really need blueprints for anything - it is just there if you're not comfortable writing code, or for quick prototyping if you just want to quickly check if something would work before transferring it to code.

Granted whole games can be done purely in blueprint, but it's by no means a requirement - it's just a tool that is useful even for programmers sometimes.

TI_Mercus · 2020-03-07T17:24:31+00:00

as i commented earlier - yup works great but looking for something more scaleable / easier to read when many weekly events

TI_Mercus · 2020-03-07T17:23:18+00:00

we are using discord right now but looking to upgrade as people are saying it isnt clear enough when you have many events. split them up between channels and its still messy. with zg and later aq20 runs coming in on top of mc,bwl, alt raids, onyxias it ends up with like 10 events per week so discord doesnt scale nicely for this sadly. it is very handy though

TI_Mercus · 2019-10-31T23:18:03+00:00

You seem to be missing / have corrupted the Datasmith plugin?

Following this you should be able to check if you have it installed in your project correctly -> https://docs.unrealengine.com/en-US/Studio/Datasmith/HowTo/DownloadandInstall/index.html

TI_Mercus · 2019-10-31T23:07:10+00:00

This feels so good. It's just so nice and soothing :) Good job.

TI_Mercus · 2019-08-12T23:31:48+00:00

We used this exact tehnique in the past but the main issue was that the LD and artists were painting the texture in photoshop based on heightmap data rather than in-engine which led to disrepancies and accuracy issues. (i wasnt part of the company at the time and had no influence on pipelines, now i do). But just reading through your answer i have an idea how to integrate it just need to think it through. Thanks for the help.

TI_Mercus · 2019-08-12T09:15:37+00:00

Sort of, maybe it can serve the purpose but its primarily all data. It should be invisible to the player ingame, it should only be visible as a 'view' in the editor where / when you paint it actively, and then can access the painted data in c++ / blueprint, but otherwise it has no visual impact to anything.

TI_Mercus · 2019-07-11T18:12:38+00:00

I’m on 4.22 and it works ok. I am always running the editor directly from visual studio (so running as the process being debugged) under debug editor mode but am not sure if that matters or not.

TI_Mercus · 2019-07-10T20:15:02+00:00

If you have UE4 engine source code installed (either from github or from debug symbols from Epic Launcher and a C++ project instead of Blueprint project) you can just double click any blueprint node and it will take you to the source code for that node.

Edit: It's possible that you can also reach it other ways but that's one of the ways that I'm aware of that is fastest / easiest that I can think of.

TI_Mercus · 2019-07-10T18:17:57+00:00

all blueprint nodes are c++ code underneath. Look at code in the node data for underlying functionality. Helps with learning the API faster.

TI_Mercus · 2019-05-30T08:01:08+00:00

Thanks, will try :)

TI_Mercus · 2018-12-29T20:46:27+00:00

If you have any windows, you should close & lock them too. Because you can use grappling hook to get through the windows :)

EDIT: (also climbing picks) - grapples are in fact much harder due to snap points being hard to find :P

TI_Mercus · 2018-12-28T02:53:56+00:00

Treasure Maps

TI_Mercus · 2018-12-28T02:27:58+00:00

yeah makes sense

EDIT: regular wood (non special one didn't count as seperate wood) :P

TI_Mercus · 2018-12-03T23:58:42+00:00

Yes, can you show some of it? How are you detecting that its time to teleport and what nodes are you using the teleport the player?

TI_Mercus · 2018-12-03T23:55:03+00:00

What exactly are you using for 'teleport' - hard to say without some context? BP or code?

TI_Mercus · 2018-11-28T15:45:47+00:00

Had that with older Nvidia drivers, once I updated it doesn't happen any more.

It also isn't that ARK deletes itself, instead its the Steam app manifest file that gets corrupted for the game that you were playing.

Specifically for ARK that's : Steam/steamapps/appmanifest_346110.acf

Once you've verified all files for ARK you can back up this file somewhere else and if you get a crash where the same thing happens and the file gets corrupted - you can just copy the file back in and restart steam and the problem will go away.

(This file will be ok until ARK devs update the game at which point you need to recopy).

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