How To Save And Load Player's Location - Unreal Engine 4 Tutorial

Hey guys, in today's video, I'm going to be showing you how to save and load the player's location in your game.
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00:15 - Overview
00:49 - Tutorial
07:59 - Final Overview
08:10 - Outro
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[@stevenwynn819]

This is one of those things you just need to know. Thanks for the tutorial.

[@MattAspland]

Absolutely Steve, something so simple yet important! :)

[@Sector333]

ooo fantastic, ill be needing this eventually. Thank you.

[@MattAspland]

That's great! Always happy to help :)

[@AnimiraniGamer]

what great timing i was just searching for this thank you so much

[@MattAspland]

Ha nice, great timing then!! Happy to help :)

[@theunicorn4224]

Just a quick question so I don't ruin anything like previous times... how can I delete a save file SAFLEY so I can test this multiple times

[@matchstickpro]

Thank you! Worked great.

[@MattAspland]

Great to hear, happy to help :)

[@Equ1no0x]

Awesome! I was thinking some days ago about how Genshin Impact or MMOs worked with this information. Pretty cool!

[@MattAspland]

Great! That sounds amazing, I always love thinking about how real games make techniques :)

[@AsciiSmoke]

Hey Matt. Thanks for the Tutorial, it's really helped me get to grips with the BluePrint editor in general as well as getting me 90% of the way there to saving the location in my project. I'm trying to do this in 5.2 and I keep hitting a wall. I've run through the tutorial several times on fresh instances of the default First Person Game Mode project. However, for some reason the cast to the SaveGameLoc class always fails and I can't find any way of getting any more information about why. Have you had a chance to try these steps out on 5.2?

[@UNOsan]

Awesome tutorial!! Is it possible to save camera rotation for first person (I am pretty new to UE4 still learning the basics)

[@abdullahsohail5395]

Nice video keep making awesome video

[@MattAspland]

Thank you man! I appreciate it :)

[@VeryNotAdamYCT]

You are the best

[@stormr]

This works great, I really needed this. thanks Matt. I was wondering though, how could I adapt this to an object, say like a vehicle? What would I use in place of the get player stuff? Any ideas?

[@MattAspland]

Hey, what you could do is "Get Actor Transform" for that blueprint. So either in the cars blueprint itself, or cast to/get a reference to that blueprint and plug that into the target for "Get Actor Transform". Hope this helps :)

[@stormr]

@@MattAspland thanks. Ill give that a shot tonight. I figured it would just be a different reference. But wasnt sure what to call. Thank you

[@MattAspland]

@@stormr Great work, good luck with it :)

[@WendellCamaraferreira6345]

Great tutorial, could teach you how to fix a certain "bug" that has in the engine, which is related to the volumetric shadows of the engine, that when I move an object, this volumetric shadow does not move in real time with the object, if you can do it a video teaching this, thank you very much!

[@que_scopes5884]

thank you lol from the amount off vids and stuff it will be like your making my game (haha)

[@MattAspland]

Haha always happy to help man!

[@alielhefnawey5764]

thanks Matt

[@MattAspland]

No problem mate :)

[@LDT7Y]

Do we still use the third person character if there are more than one saved characters? My game lets you create up to 3 characters, so do I create the save game data commands elsewhere or create 3 different third person character templates that correspond to 3 'slots' on the start menu? I've seen this done in other games, so I know it's doable. Just not sure how to organise it.

[@galberger3937]

Hi Can you show how to add health points and stamina in ue5 with the savegame system that you have used in this video?

[@Shadowbroker001]

Hey. First of thanks for the Tutorials. They are great. I've got a question. I've tried to create and load a savegame with world and location infos. Saving works fine but when i'm loading the savegame he loads the correct world but the character spawns at its default location. Can you please help me?

[@Aaron_Acker]

Having Same issue.. did you figure it out?

[@stormr]

Turns out I'm having some trouble with this after all. it works great as long as I keep playing the game. but when it shut down the computer and come back at another time, i keep loading in under the map and just fall. Happening with my testors too. My map isnt technically at zero on the verticle sense. its actually at 134. But the player loads in at 0 vertically, the x and z are loading in at correct position. Is there a way I can tell it to save the verticle offset of the map as well so it saves true location?

[@tyjrthrtg]

Hey, did you work it out? I'm having the same problem right now..

[@lollerkiller900]

yeah, i could use that, but how can i combine it with a Menu?

[@xliquid_]

Is it possible that you make a tutorial on changing things on runtime? Like laying a stone path on the ground ingame and save it. If you know what I mean :)

[@MattAspland]

Hey man, I think I know what you mean. I can look into that :)

[@LetsPatrick]

Please show how these data are not saved on the player pc but on a database (SQL)

[@AdireetiVlogs]

hi i want to save game automatically at background during gaming i donw want any key the saving process run all time atutomatically at background is there any option to do this plz let me know

[@andresca1985]

Hi, In Ue5 i cant see the node Set Spawn Transform

[@Emarketsarts]

What if one wanted to save his AI characters location , is there a way to do it like this?

[@kumardhruv1723]

Hey. Thanks for the tuitorial it's works fine but in setting the transform but still my player is spawned at 0,0,0 can you please help me ?

[@JoaoVictor-fk8no]

hey, did you manage to fix this?

[@jasonyeo1465]

Is it advisable to save the player's location on event tick? In case there is someone who closed the game by force, like closing the window directly (with the X) or end task in Task Manager. If not, is there a viable way to auto-save the player's location?

[@jasonyeo1465]

Solved by doing the auto save under PlayerCharacterBP->EventEndPlay. But idk why EventEndPlay GameMode, PlyaerController or LevelBlueprint can't, but I haven't tried shutting down the PC while the game is playing, and hopefully the auto-save works if there's a blackout.

[@ceoexecutivebusinessman7201]

You should make the type of saving systems like in old school survival horror games like where you need an “ink ribbon” to save

[@MattAspland]

Great idea, I'll add it to my list :)

[@chetanamali956]

how to save & load the rotation Of first-person camera/player??

[@Jimmybear06]

the BIGGEST lifesaver in the world..

[@MattAspland]

Always a pleasure to help out!! :)

[@anotherdayanotherslay6125]

Can you make footstep sounds but without mesh?

[@MattAspland]

Do you still have animations at all? That would be easier. But yeah, you could have it so that when you are walking forwards (i.e. holding W), it will play the footstep sfx every few seconds, and have it stop that loop if you let go of W. Hope that makes sense, let me know if you need extra help with it :)

[@LDT7Y]

@@MattAspland How do you get it to change the sound based on the terrain (i.e. splash noises for crossing a shallow river, louder footsteps for a stone path, quieter ones for walking on grass, etc)?

[@g-dojjo]

Thanks bro! this is really great tutorial! But its work when we change level ? ( level name and location save )

[@MattAspland]

Hey, if you save in the new level it should still work perfectly for you I think. I also have a video on choosing which level to load too, hope this helps :) kzbin.info/www/bejne/in6afZaFbJ12mNE

[@Anna-ej3xw]

Hi dear Matt. Could you give me a helping hand? It feels like I'm so close to making this work. My code looks literally identical to yours, I've even tried recreating it multiple times. Still, the cast always fails for me when I try to cast to my Save Game. Can you / anyone help me out?

[@rttsh1616]

I didn’t work for me but still an a amazing tutorial

[@MattAspland]

Hey man, have you double checked that your slot name is spelt the exact same in all references to it, and you have chosen the correct save games you created? If so, you could maybe send some screenshots so I can take a look? All the best, and thank you for your kind words :)

[@rttsh1616]

Ok how shall I send the screenshots

[@MattAspland]

You could maybe upload them to "imgur.com" and send the link here?

[@omarhefnawey1959]

Thanks , but how to save when player overlapping an object

[@MattAspland]

Hey, I have a video on checkpoints which save when overlapping an object. Hope this can help, you can use the code you have now, just move it to the same place as in this video :)

[@realNoobDog]

Nice Video can you make a Tutorial how to make a Dog that follows your Character and if you Press f or e or b you can pet him?

[@MattAspland]

Thanks man, and I can definitely look into that one yeah :)

[@realNoobDog]

@@MattAspland Thaaaaaanks👍👍

[@sakibrahaman6941]

Hi Matt, I'm having trouble to package my game on Android platform! It says an "unknown error". Can you fix it? Please 😭😭🙏🙏

[@MattAspland]

Hey, in your error logs, do you have more information, any other errors? Or any compiler errors in any of your blueprints?

[@sakibrahaman6941]

@@MattAspland noo.. But this error shows on the output log.. not in the error log

[@MattAspland]

@@sakibrahaman6941 Ah okay, does it allow you to see more details for the error?

[@sakibrahaman6941]

@@MattAspland i don't know, but it only says packaging failed unknown error at the end..

[@stormr]

@@sakibrahaman6941 watch it as it compiles the package, and look out for any red text as its doing so, that will help you narrow it down, if possible record the compiling of the package as it happens with something free like obs software. so you can pause the video when you see the red text. those are your errors, should help pinpoint you in the right are of whats happening. I had alot of errors to fix in my game when I tried packaging it

[@carlosrivadulla8903]

pls, faster