Happy to hear! :D waiting for live to calm down a bit to continue with the series

Glad it helped!

same here. I rotated the player start object 180 and now it works ok

Thanks a lot! I'm still working on it, hopefully it'll be informative and fun

Thanks for your comment! it means a lot. I try to make tutorials that are easy to understand and explain in an accessible way so I'm very happy to hear that it translates well into different languages!

Sorry about that! this was one of my first videos and I didn't pay close enough attention to this

Thank you for your kind and insightful words! I think its important to also create honest and open content and share even when things aren't perfect. I've started to feel more inspiration and motivation but it takes time. Building upon you comment I kept thinking "I need to get back to how I was" when in all honesty, I'm evolving and should much rather be thinking about where is the path forward and how can I walk confidently in the direction I'm passionate with

@@gisli Hi, again. I know it's been a month since we spoke but I wanted to check in on you and see how you've been doing.

@@patrickmoates8030 Thanks for your message! Its been a busy few weeks, went to Gamescom last week to help a startup that I'm involved with, done a few short contract gigs. And next week I'll start a full time position in a new country :D Haven't had much time to focus on the channel with everything that's going on, but I'm hoping that once I settle in the new country I can continue making content D:

@@gisli That's great to hear man. Sorry for the late reply. Keep being kind to yourself.

That sucks! I strongly suggest checking out some sort of version control. I personally use git (but I know many people don't like if for game dev). One thing that you can try, is deleting your "Saved, Intermediate and Binaries" folders from your project. Its very likely that your corruption is hiding somewhere in there and just needs to be regenerated

I was using the First Person Example to test, and as soon as I hit the key it would actually send it under the ground as the ground level Z is 190 and the cube would go under the ground geometry and go to 0. So I set the Z location in SetActorLocation to 190. Question now is how can I just add movement to wherever the cube is to begin with? without it going to 0 and without having to SetActorLocation to 190.

The trick there is you want to first (in the tick function). call "GetActorLocation) which will give you the 3D position of your cube. Then its just a matter of adding ( + ) some value, for example (1,0,0) to the current actor location. Then lastly, you call "SetActorLocation" with the result of your add function Hope this makes sense :D

Glad it helped!

Awesome! Happy to have helped :D

That's a great explanation! It really looked like "magic" but now I have a pretty good understanding of this

I had no idea! definitely something I want to check out :D

Glad you liked it! The Third Person Pawn has a function called "Jump" that handles jumping so you might be able to hook up the enhanced input and trigger that command. But I'll admit, there comes a point where its easier to not start with the templates, they are great for learning but once you get a hang of how the input works, camera and movement its sometimes better just to try and set it up to do exactly what you need for your game

@@gisli Yes! I found out how to add it it was simpler that I expected.

Glad it helped!

In this video we are using Instanced Static Meshes so if you apply a material to it then all the tiles will end up having the same material. I'm still working on the next one! happy to hear that you are excited for it. gives me motivation to make it even better :D

Thanks a lot! I appreciate your comment Great catch on the compile time, I'm using hot reload, but its hard to see in the video because my floating head is in-front of it. Hot Reload lets you compile c++ without having to restart the editor and can be very quick. This video doesn't show it very well but I think there is some good documentation for it on the epic website

Glad to hear! I've already started the next chapter so hopefully you won't have to wait long

Glad it helped 💪

Happy to hear! I'll hopefully be able to make the next one in the series soon!

Glad it helped! :D

There is a chance that your object is moving too fast and it disappears out of view. There is a pause button that you can press, and go to the outliner (list of actors in the scene). So when you play the game you could find the actor that disappears in the outliner and look at the location. Maybe the location is a very high number which means you are moving too fast

Glad to be back! Thank you!

Thanks! I really appreciate it!

Glad you liked it! I've started to work on the next lesson so hopefully it'll be ready soon

Glad it was helpful!

Thanks! Looking forward to the next steps, what ever they will be :D

Hi, Its very difficult to figure out what the problem is with so little information. It sounds like something happened that corrupted your file and if you are not using source control like perforce or github then there is not much to be done Do you have a backup of the map that you can restore? Hope you find a solution!

@@gisli thank you bro i'll solve problem but late seen your comment😅

Yeah, you are right... I only realized this after recording and uploading, and many people have pointed this out :/ My later videos are better in this regard, I'm hoping I can re-record this soon with more readable font and updated for the latest version of bazel

@@gisli if you can that would be great.. I'm using bazel (blaze) inside google but your video was a great starter.

a video on '"concepts" would be great.. more a whiteboard session.

Thanks! Your comment means a lot!

Thanks! I'm thinking about starting with selection first and showing how to do a highlight when you mouse over the grid, and then do "something" when you click on it. Doing a path is pretty interesting. There is probably an algorithm for paths on a hexagon grid that I would have to learn before I make a tutorial. Sounds pretty fun!

Happy to help, good luck with your project!

Yeah definitely! One way would be to make it so that on BeginPlay each one of the spheres register itself to a global object. For example, create an array on the gamemode called "ActorsToMonitor" or something like that. That way you don't have to do GetAllActorsOfClass() but can rather do GetGamemode->GetActorsToMonitor and loop through that to bind This is a pattern called "publish-subscribe" in computer science and can be tricky to solve well in some cases. The problem to solve is you need to know which actors are publishing (or broadcasting events) and which actors should subscribe (or bind to the events). But if the pub-sub relation ship never changes. that is on BeginPlay the actor should always just listen to a set number of actors then GetAllActorsOfClass is fine If you want to do this dynamic, where new actors are spawned into the level and you want the listener to bind to the new actors then having them register to a global object like I mentioned could work. The real tricky part starts when you need to also remove the bindings based on some criteria, like if an actor has moved too far away from the listener then remove the binding and if it gets close enough add it :)

Thanks for you comment! The character class is a special version of the pawn (a subclass). What the character class does (among other things) is add the CharacterMovementComponent which means that its a pawn, with extra logic to move like a character. The blueprint versions are subclasses of these classes. so the pawn blueprint Inherits from the pawn c++ class and the character BP from the character c++ So if you want to use a Pawn blueprint, and not a character blueprint then you can change it in the "Class Defaults" section of the blueprint and switch the parent class. But if you do that then you lose all the extra logic you get from the character. Hope that makes sense :)

@@gisli Thank you. I will not make this. I just want to understand it :) Thnk you

Again, great explanation. I've always just thought of the modulo operator as a "trick" to figure out odd or even numbers and this clears it up!

Awesome! thanks for this explanation, it really helped me understand this better! The more I learn about how this works, the more I want to remake the video to include the full information. Its not complex when its laid out like you did

Thanks! I must admit that I can't remember well enough how to discover tests in levels like you mentioned. Any time I do this I have to do a lot of re-discovery to get it working. The next time I setup testing in an empty project I'll definitely make a cheat sheet. One thing I remember is that the discovery is very dependant on a naming convention. So there is a chance that your BP_BasicTest does not follow the right convention. Another thing that might be good to check out is when you run it from the editor, to see if you can find the actual command that the editor runs. That way you might see which discovery flags you are missing