Making a Simple Converyor Volume | Live Training | Unreal Engine

[@PsyCoCinematics]

To anyone following along today, it doesn't seem to work as-is. Easy fix though! When you make Conveyor Box actor blueprint and add the Cube component, back then it automatically became the 'root'. In current UE builds, it adds the cube to a root instead. Drag the Cube up on top of the root and it becomes it. The tutorial should work fine after that ^_^

[@ryangh1603]

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[@PsyCoCinematics]

@@ryangh1603 Glad to help!

[@bassboot5357]

send me your paypal i am gonna spend you a drink!

[@PsyCoCinematics]

@@bassboot5357 Haha Spend on a double for yerself, lad! But thank-ya!

[@Faier12]

BRO THANKS YOU SAVED ME

[@christofferkarlsson1534]

Zak's Tutorials are the best

[@PhilShary]

Yeah, Zak is amazing. Tesladev is great as well.

[@yomocy]

i bet zak at a new title at work "tutorial maker"

[@sozno4222]

Is there a way to make a curved conveyor? A 90 degree turn for example.

[@UnrealEngine_Master]

Great tutorial! As usual. Still I have a question - my boxies fall out straight down after conveyer end. Is there some way to let them inherit their movement to fall in more realistic way? thanks in advance

[@ColossalCake]

Hey! You're from 3D Buzz's UDK tutorials! Great tutorial as usual!

[@awilliams1701]

He was, but he works for epic now. He also has awesome pink hair.

[@rodrigueroland2245]

Normally, you should apply a force proportionnal to the difference of conveyor and object velocities: F = µ (Vc - Vo). It'll be more realistic. The force shouldn't be applied to the center of gravity but at the collision point.

[@reecelaw4342]

Awesome! Thanks so much for these tutorials! :P Hope to see some C++ tuts soon lol :)

[@hartjd]

Hey, im struggling with this... Im in ue5.3 IT will move my character but not the boxes... the boxes drop but they will not put force upon the boxes =( (can you help)

[@krmdnzdnz9330]

Hello my friend. I applied the method you showed and it worked very successfully. Thank you for sharing this. But I have a problem and I don't think anyone else can solve this problem but you. In this spawn system you showed, objects start to accumulate after a while and start to slow down the game. Is there a system that can solve this? For example, can the object spawned from the spawn system disappear on its own after approximately 30 seconds? I'd be grateful if you help. Please help me.

[@weirdshit]

I cant get the spawned boxes to move on the conveyor. :( A cube and player worked fine though!

[@weirdshit]

+weirdshit Solved it by replacing the default scene root with static mesh component(Box) in the box blueprint. :( Didnt see the annotations! Wasted so much time on this.

[@Chad-yo3uw]

+weirdshit Thank you so much, I spent too much time trying to solve that!

[@AJay-wj4kd]

+weirdshit Thanks man, wouldn't have figured that out by myself! Edit: Just realised they added an annotation, thanks Epic

[@tommyberglund6232]

+weirdshit Thank you! I couldn't understand what I did wrong, and would never have figured this one out myself.

[@mikornincstempo]

Can you please help me out? Have no idea how to do it

[@DonMatek]

Try adding a static mesh to the actor makes the whole thing move ;)

[@throstur_thor]

My cubes stop moving along the conveyor volume as soon as i get to the spawner part. I'm running this in Unreal Engine 4.27.

[@GeNN18192]

have the same issue, looks like the cube get stuck

[@Valon129]

Guys this is great tutorials but could you do the same kind of really short/easy stuff using C++?

[@aaronstone3756]

Great tutorial, I have created this for a sidescroller game where the player has to run along the belt and jump over spike balls and was just wondering how you would reduce the amount of items being dropped onto the conveyor belt

[@ant1fact]

At 13:30 within the 'Set Timer' function just set the 'Time' value to something higher. That means the boxes will spawn at a slower rate, therefore the amount of boxes will be reduced.

[@noxabellus]

why not use add force?

[@rivalsolo]

how do this without Event Tick+Each Looping? Its kill my game

[@hardeepsingh-km6wg]

as you drop cube. i create blueprint with cube and phy. and event on even then it is not moving

[@PsyCoCinematics]

I know your comment is a few months old but I have a fix that worked for me: The ConveyorBox back then became the root when current UE it's attached to the default root instead. If you drag the Cube in the component menu ontop of the root it will become one and as long as everything is turned on (physics, gravity, overlap events) the tutorial should work like it should.

[@stevedoetsch]

I'm using UE 4.5 for ARK Dev Kit, and can't connect the "Get" for the box to the "Target" for "Get Overlapping Actors" as noted at 4:08. The target has to be an actor, but the box is a component. How do I change the target type so I can input the box component?

[@orenders]

why its not works with Geometry Collection ?

[@DominiqueCalique]

Hi, I'm using this for a Leap Motion project. Is there a way where the conveyor doesn't effect my Leap Motion Hands? Whenever I put the hands near the conveyor during Simulate, the hands start to move as well.

[@JohnDaniels]

You should be using a timer instead of tick, that way the conveyor will always move at the same rate regardless of frame rate.

[@Ares9323]

He's multiplying the speed by delta seconds, so it's already frame rate indipendent

[@kenziemac130]

Unreal Engine 5.0 and this is broken again, this time even with the primitive as the root component. The object moves a bit yes... but then it slows down to a stop. (Update: Fix in first reply)

[@kenziemac130]

Found a fix! kzbin.info/www/bejne/q3TNnICdorCBmJo

[@krmdnzdnz9330]

Hello my friend. I watched your video and clicked the like button. But there is one point I don't understand. What should we do if we want the cubes passing over the conveyor to disappear after a point?

[@saruedev]

You could set an “life span” on the cube and after x seconds it will auto destroy

[@elainehoey2914]

Brilliant..thanks so much

[@thomasabramson100]

Zak is there a way to add a garbage collection component for all the spawned boxes if you want to let it rum more than 10 seconds

[@SedrikGSX]

I have some trouble in 12:00 when he adds the component "billboard", i can't find it!

[@awilliams1701]

OMG I can't believe this. I needed this exact video this weekend. I was trying to create a volume that alerts all actors in it if a "loud" weapon has been fired. I managed to get it to work using pretty much everything shown here, but it would have saved me a lot of time. I did do one thing different than you did though with the volume itself. I attach the volume to the BP point of origin and use a public bounds vector with the show 3d widget checked. The volume is scaled automatically between the point of origin and the bounds vector location. It makes it a lot easier to use in my opinion. Also I did exactly what you said. I used a material bilboard placed at the center of the volume to indicate that its an alarm volume. I still can't believe this came out literally 1-2 days after I could have used it.

[@hardeepsingh-km6wg]

i have create a box blueprint, if i drop that on it then it is not moving just stay there.

[@thomasabramson100]

Zak can this be done with c++ as parent class extending blueprint where and when needed

[@SaeedDastkhosh]

Great video! I tried it step by step in UE 4.25, but it it just doesn't work with ConveyorBox actor and conveyor doesn't transport it. My conveyor only transports a simple cube out of a actor class! I need help!

[@PsyCoCinematics]

Hey there, don't know if you ever got the fix to this problem but I messed around with the blueprints and found a fix that worked for me: The ConveyorBox needs to become the root component instead of being attached to an invisible one. Drag the Cube ontop of the root to make it one, then as long as physics, gravity, and overlap events are ticked on it should work fine.

[@berrybudi]

One question, why billboard image use T-REX as icon? lol I don't understand the icon, but at least it worked. nice tutorial tho :D

[@ShawnTheRazor]

That's an icon that was used in the original and very first UnrealEd. It's being left in as homage to where they started and where they are now.

[@TheIronTeacher]

Got stuck with the box needing to be the route, thanks for the popup.

[@SuperCarzetin]

Hi!!! nice tutorial by the way!! can u help me??? im trying to add kill component to the falling object to kill the player, but i cant find eny tutorial about that on internet :S.

[@adrianaaa6755]

Rui Contreras Do casting or use interface to check what the falling object is and use node DestroyActor

[@1Skigutt]

My arrow doesn't seem to scale correctly :/

[@mikemkm7521]

Amazing tutorials by this guy Zak, keep it up.

[@nikilragav]

The title has a spelling mistake

[@LarsErikFjsne]

Thanks kind sir!

[@novaria]

This was amazing!

[@DoctorORBiT]

Doesn't work in 4.18 The complete box collision is moving with it.

[@hodaelsayed1686]

+Unreal Engine great tutorial but how to let these box come out with specific pattern and get packed in a crate let's say when they reach specific number?

[@hodaelsayed1686]

+Unreal Engine how to get a reference to each item that comes out of the billboard

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