Hmm it depends I'd say splitting it would help the case you have here and it wouldn't add too much complexity (I have all of my wasd on separate actions for accessibility support and for Niagara effects I run for my ship) if you didn't want to split it then you'd probably just have to make it clear to players that they can only dodge while standing still or in their direction of movement many games do it using either method but from my own experience the splitting seems to work better for more fluid movement personally I'd split it all up then no matter what players could roll any direction so if they are running backwards but want to roll forwards to dodge an attack but still keep moving backwards overall they can

@@PirateDion glad to hear it!

Thanks I hope to go into all the cool tools it provides so people can get the most out of it!

The can work pretty similarly and with similar performance the biggest difference afaik is going to be in how you get the information to the other actor for example An interface can achieve say passing damage data from one actor to another through a basic reference of an actor by saying "if you have this please do it" A delegate subscribes to any function of an object and says "let me know when this happens" Think of it like a door An interface allows an actor to open any door with the interface of OpenDoor A delegate could listen for one or more doors opening and do something based on it like spawn a boss or NPC They CAN be used the same way but it's best to use interfaces for when one actor needs to cause something to happen to another actor (like interact on a door) vs delegates are best for when listening or waiting for something else to happen to react to that (for example i use this for my dialogue/quest system that ties into my gameplay tag system)

@@Spacemarine658 Thanks for the exchange, certainly helpful. I can see where it is more convenient to have a class just listen to an event instead of having another actor specifically reference to another actor with an interface who gets the message, which can also be annoying when trying to decouple but create references elsewhere. Gonna keep that in mind!

@@taigabit no problemo 🤘

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1) that is the time since editor started it's a little confusing but it helps diagnose memory leaks 2) what you are seeing there are rendering frames which are slightly offset due to how the game thread pushes to the rendering frame if your right click at the top and deselect rendering frame you'll see it aligned perfectly

@@Spacemarine658 thanks man

@@TheZoobZoobs no problem glad to help 🤘

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That's not a bad way to do it I just like separating the UI from the player in such a way that any changes I make don't affect each other. Think of it like this I could build 4 totally different HUD systems and swap between them with 0 issues since there is no hard refs between the two systems

By not hard coupling the two you leave a lot of room for change and performance 🤘

@@Spacemarine658 I see. it makes total sense.

There's a few different ways the easiest would be making the hold condition mappable like the other keys and it'll just show in the list it wouldn't work with the drop down but it would allow it to be changed. Another option would be the same as above except you'd create a check so as to not create a widget for that specific action and then in your dropdown you'd set it up with some options and then check the current set key and set that as the selected for the drop down and then when that drop down changes you then go and override your hold condition key just like you would the regular keys

@@Spacemarine658 Thank you for that input and your time invested, working on it now!

@@taigabit no problem feel free to ping me if you have trouble!

@@Spacemarine658 Alright, I have tried out the "analog" approach. So what you proposed as solution both requires me to add an input asset to each control/operation. Like for "IA_interactWithChest" i would need an "IA_InteractHold" asset that then is mappable and exclusively bonded to it. for another aspect in the game "IA_OpenSpellbook" I would need to have it's own Asset created too that I can then change with simple mapping and is bonded to the spellbook opening. It seems tedious if the controls are a lot, but it seems to work. I originally wanted to avoid this approach and hoped there is a way to access the triggers, since they are arrays, in blueprints and then adding the context for holding or "combo" this way into the trigger category of that given asset. I have tried to add information from a dummy input asset into the array of triggers but I face reference issues when doing so, while I know and feel this would probably the best approach and allow users to change the whole property at runtime. I haven't been able to access and change the array of triggers and modifiers of an input asset in blueprints sadly yet after days of research. Anyway. Just to clarify, your idea suggests making an asset as optional condition for each operation the player can perform, right?

@@taigabit yes and no I would make it as generic as possible and only use the conditionals for extra things so for example in my game: Interact handles a few different options based on what gameplay tags my player has for example if the play hits interact and they have the tag "InDockingRange" it tries to dock but if not then it checks for the tag "target locked" and so on all with a single key then I have the hold condition for when I want the player to hit the hold button and interact button so as an example for my radial menu you have to do caps lock and f and it opens that menu up. If you can you want to minimize how many keys the player is hitting so if it were me I'd have the interact key have the trigger hold so when cancelled (ie just a tap) the interact with cheat and open spell book could either first depending on if the player has the tag or not so one button two possible actions.

I actually released a video covering this! Check out my latest video it covers chorded actions and double taps!

No problem glad it helped!

Yeah sorry about that I hadn't figured out how to separate the two at the time 😅

I did cover it a bit better here kzbin.info/www/bejne/iajdcoR6dph4bLssi=s-5zRfVXH1cjdoI7

Thanks 🤗 I did a major overhaul on the systems now that I've got a learned a ton lol so development should get a lot faster now

Ouch that's rough have you been able to pin point why?

@@Spacemarine658 it's inside the engine files, I've submitted a bug and thought it'd be fixed by 5.4 but no 😭

@@GameDevAraz ouch

@@Spacemarine658 yup, happens on android

🤔 interesting idea I'll have to look into it I don't think the key textures take up much memory especially as I remove them once the UI is hidden but it wouldn't hurt to reduce it further 🤔🤔

Lots of smacking my face into the code and debugging lol

Yes it would probably require a bit more effort but it could be done

No problem glad it helped 🤘

Thanks! I appreciate the feedback!

You can have different trees and that's not a bad solution especially for complex behaviors but you can have aborts built into the tree so that when the enum changes the tree gets reset

@@Spacemarine658 oh thats smart way to go, thanks for answer.

XD I feel ya there

@@Spacemarine658 Finally got to the same spot I was at with the blueprints. Sharing some useful functions I found along the way. InputSystem->GetAllPlayerMappableActionKeyMappings(); don't need to filter the results because all of them are mappable. However this is tied to enhanced input local subsystem so you would need to reference that unlike when using get mappings which specifically references an IMC. Didn't use this in C++ but had it in blueprint and it worked fine. Probably better if you have a bunch of IMC so you don't need a loop in a loop. UserSettings->ResetAllPlayerKeysInRow(args, FailureReason); easy one button reset instead creating a new arg to use to for mapping. I believe it clears the whole row, so if you have multiple slots it might not be ideal. Be sure to pass a variable in to be used to return a failure reason, because these functions won't work in C++ without it. // Create an empty FGameplayTagContainer to store failure reasons FGameplayTagContainer FailureReason; Careful when building the args for your key mapping. I've just discovered that having an arg with a slot that isn't yet allocated will crash if you try to get the current non=existent keybind. This is a crash if you have not keybind in slot 2 FMapPlayerKeyArgs args; args.MappingName=UEnhancedInputLibrary::GetMappingName(maps[i]); args.NewKey = EKeys::K; args.Slot = EPlayerMappableKeySlot::Second; UserSettings->GetCurrentKeyProfile()->FindKeyMapping(args)->GetCurrentKey();

Yep I wrote it in 5.3.2

@@Spacemarine658 but it is showing this error: The following modules are missing or built with a different engine version: DiscordGame Would you like to rebuild them now?

@@jaizxzx hmmm the repo isn't version specific afaik I'd try rebuilding it but if it doesn't work it may be your files are in the wrong place

@@Spacemarine658 No worries man its working finally apparently there was some issue with the DiscordGame folder so I had to delete the already generated data for the plugin and then replace the files with the official release of the discord sdk in the suitable locations inside the DiscordGame folder and then recompile the project and it worked finally.

@@jaizxzx ah ok that makes sense glad you got it figured out 💪

No problem 😁

I'm a little confused is there a specific function you can think of? Most of my functions are built into unreal it's self or are ones I build using custom events or functions

@@Spacemarine658 Well for exemple (as I was checking it again) the function is mnk. When I drag my function it makes a non static one with the target pin. And It does that with every function I made. And If I can add something else, I get an error that say's, accessed none trying to read the property UserInputSettings.

@@kaptaka ah ok so what I have is called a pure function to make a pure function there is a check mark on the right hand side when you click on a function, making a function pure means you don't intend to execute code there but instead pass data around

@@kaptaka that will hide the execution pins

@@kaptaka it's not static there's a different flow for static vs non but that's a bit different than a pure function if you catch my drift

That it is lol glad you got it somewhat solved

Nice glad you figured it out and yeah I've improved my tutorial process somewhat but for sure I missed out on that 🤘 thanks for the feedback

Glad you enjoyed it!

No it's a built in part of unreal engine you just have to enable it in the settings are you getting an error using it?

@@Spacemarine658 I found the issue, when pulling from get enhanced input user settings, it wasn't valid because i didn't have the target pulled from enhanced input local player subsystem. I was just plugging it directly from get player controller. Thx again for making this video it was great

@@bluehornet03 ah ok yeah that would do it too glad you figured it out!

I don't believe so only Linux and Windows

Not really you can get away with basic integration without too much coding but some is required as it's a plugin hitting an SDK

there are plugins on the market that can do it in blueprints but obvisouly that comes with a price and overhead

@@ryanjdevlin87 yeah the price of free is needing to learn a little c++

What you can do is once a key is selected you can loop through the current keys like we do when building all the key widgets and if any match then throw an error and don't override the key

@@Spacemarine658 Got it. I made it. Had to make a few macros to run through all Key Selector widgets and check for duplicate key, then if duplicate is found, I return the default key and update the widget back to this default value accordingly. Thanks !!

@@wolfwirestudios awesome 🤘 glad you got

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No problem I'm not 100% sure what cases it myself but since fixing it, it hasn't come back

🤔 hmmm strange I'd try running print strings off of your save and load functions and see if you notice anything missing if not feel free to DM me on discord with screenshots and I'll take a look 🤘

@@Spacemarine658 cool, thanks I will do that tomorrow morning, it’s 4 am here, and I am barely alive at this point. Good night and expect to see me tomorrow morning! Thanks for a great tutorial!

@@gatOlegat Roger that 🫡 thanks for watching!

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No problem 😁 glad it helped