Unreal Engine 4 Tutorial - Splines - Moving Platforms

[@MZONE3D]

Great tutorial... but .....Ahh no! at 16:20 I thought you were going to say how to make it repeat smoothly repeat the forward and reverse! :'O

[@RyanLaley]

Sorry, realise didn't make it clear. But to make it smooth repeat, it's just all on that graph, so when it goes to 1, make it go back down to 0. Just don't forget to change the length at the top of the timeline.

[@MZONE3D]

OK thanks.. Go to the timeline graph, Change the time length to 10.0 Add a new keyframe Set at Time: 10 Seconds, Value: 0 Click "Loop" Works like a charm, Thanks

[@justanameonyourscreen5954]

Thanks guys...

[@Grimsikk]

@@MZONE3D Thank you for this!

[@clebo99]

@@MZONE3D Does your loop show a little bit of a stutter at the end of the loop?

[@RagsToRich7]

Finally someone who does UE4 tuts and gets straight to the point showing how to do something without going into every detail. Very good tutorial and well appreciated!

[@metafuel]

For those of you struggling to find your spline points in the editor like I did for a while - just make sure you have "Show>Splines" enabled in the top right viewport dropdown. Great tutorial again thank you Ryan. I appreciate the time you put in. As soon as myself and my country are out of lock-down and making cash again I'd love to support your Patreon. Take care.

[@geoffrey3668]

Thank for the tutorial! If you have problem with a vertical up and down elevator, it's most likely due to the fact your platform flip as soon as you enter in the collision box. Just disable all the "SetRelativeRotation" at the 3BeginPlay" and in the "BeginOverlap" as you do not need that. You can double check if your platform flip by making the collision box visible.

[@zeeow100]

Thank you for showing us how to make these mechanics, its really helped me and some friends who are on an game art & design course out with our first time games.

[@Robert-yb6pc]

Very Awesome! It made me redo my own moving platforms since this way is way easier

[@aferalva69]

Easy to understand and well explained. Thanks

[@oo_atlas_oo]

Great tutorial! I had an issue where it didn't rotate the actor on it. Turns out it was because I used set world rotation instead of set relative rotation

[@tremoral]

really liked this, well explained and nice pacing. Keep it up

[@RyanLaley]

Thanks glad you like my videos :)

[@benhardwiesner6963]

Oh he has hidden some free buttons in the video... I've collected them for you! 4:15 4:15 4:15 4:15 4:15 4:15 4:15 4:15 4:15 4:15

[@beauxhunkman1997]

How would this work if I wanted to have multiple moving platforms moving at different speeds, distances, etc. Would each moving platform have to have their own blueprint with their own timelines?

[@MikeHood2012]

while following the steps on UE5 when I "Cast To Thirdperson" from the component overlap there is no third person option, only lyra camera modes (neither work as a substitute). is there an update on what to use here?

[@DOAmaster]

Great tutorial, keep up the good work.

[@daithiluck8749]

How do I make the platform face the other way when coming back?

[@Cayoken]

Great Tutorial! Helped me a lot!

[@sunnis4581]

i cant find around at 4.00 in video u say "cast to thirdpersoncharacter" i cant find that in UT Editor 4.15 is that u got from a package or something?? and iam in the event graph but when i search it dont come up or it changed name on it.

[@RyanLaley]

You cast to what is the name of the actor of the player character.

[@sunnis4581]

@@RyanLaley thx it worked perfectly it was "cast to character" instead

[@Grimsikk]

I found a huge problem with this, for some reason my player randomly falls/clips through the moving platform mesh, it's not even going fast at all either, but when I jump on an upwards-moving platform, my player clips and falls through it. I really could use some guidance on this. Collision settings are right, BlockAll and BlockAllDynamic both give the same result of the player clipping through though. what do I do? Edit: Setting the Moving Platform to Trace Complex in Collision seems to somewhat fix it, but I'm not sure if this is the most optimal approach to solving this.

[@metafuel]

@@MihaiUEFN I has a similar problem last year with platforms and my character. I used a physical material on the p;latforms and put the friction up real high on my character and the material. Not sure if this is the correct way to do it- it did stop the problem though.

[@mahmudhossain4917]

Would I be able to use this to create a moving train? Connecting carriages that moves independently would be difficult.

[@ty_teynium]

Just tried it. I only used one car or carriage though but it does work. Two things to take note of: the forward axis of the mesh was on it's side so it wasn't moving correctly. I think rotating the mesh will fix that. Also the spline should be leveled unless you want to place it on uneven terrain. Also in the Game Jedi The Fallen Order the train you ride on is only one train car. It doesn't go anywhere. The cars you move through are procedurally loaded after you leave one car and enter the other. The outside of the train is plane meshes with lighting built, all moving in one direction - in this case backward - to simulate that you're moving forward through a tunnel. I'll try it with multiple cars to see what would happen.

[@mahmudhossain4917]

@@ty_teynium I created something similar so that the train goes both ways. So I had to keep the engines on both sides. Having difficult communicating with all the children using dispatcher.

[@hoangpham2991]

Great video tutorials. Is there a way when I get out of the flying saucer. Will it return to its original position in 1s

[@infusica]

I made the platform automatically move on start. I'm having a problem with the platform moving along the spline. It just sits in place bobbing a little bit. Any solutions?

[@tekanobob]

for future reference: so, the way splines work: 9:48 is the reason I came to this videdo

[@Smollfoxy]

what if i want the platform to stay at the end and move in reverse when i get on again?

[@GaryParkin]

I'd think you'd want to have a branch, testing if the platform was at the end of the loop, if so then reverse, else move forward. You could also add buttons to go forward and reverse like an elevator, only horizontal. (This is so cool)

[@Grimsikk]

Great tutorial as always, but one major visual issue has arisen: When my platform follows the spline points, the whole mesh flickers rapidly for a second. Is there a way to fix this? It's very off-putting to see a moving platform flickering and spazzing out.

[@grid4892]

how do i fix it? my train is having anxioty atack and flying every where. HELP

[@virmotion]

Hi Ryan, greetings from Colombia. I want to ask you a question, I am doing your tutorial, but this time it is a VR project, the idea is that when you start the game, you are on a ship in VR, and then make the journey on this ship and arrive at a station And I can walk a place. My problem is based on the fact that I run the game, and the ship leaves alone, and I stay at the beginning, do you know how I could solve it?

[@agentarachnid2009]

Very cool. How could you exchange the platform for an AI character? This sort of thing would work brilliantly as a jumpscare in my game

[@ajackso972]

Hey thanks for the great tutorials....quick queation about the inventory system u made... how would I set it up so that the player can pick up multiple of a item with one interaction. Example would be if they come across a large herb it gives them three but a small one would just give one.

[@RyanLaley]

On the item object, you have the interact function on it. You will see the Add to Inventory function has a slot for quantity, just change it from 1 to whatever you want.

[@ajackso972]

Ryan Laley wouldn't changing that change all interactions tho. I looking to make it so that different types of items may hold different amounts of that item.

[@RyanLaley]

Nope shouldn't affect anything else. Just type in the value you want it to add.

[@ajackso972]

Ryan Laley ok thanks i will try it out

[@DrSciencex]

I will subscribe if you make a video to do this with vr

[@RyanLaley]

VR stuff will be out at some point in the first half of this year

[@swervbotArchive]

Great tutorial, really love how detailed your explanations were with even the more simple stuff! (i.e. the parent child stuff and why it needs to be that way)

[@CommanderColson]

Is there a way to have the spline ‘land’ and the once the player gets off, instead of reversing, it starts along a new spline path? An example being a drop-ship flying a soldier into battle. After the drop ship drops the soldier off, it would take off forward before turning around and heading back the way it came, instead of literally flying backwards

[@99Kap]

you can use a flip flop on timeline finished to switch between reverse and play.

[@coolamber1149]

Hey man thanks a lot for the tutorial. I want to ask how to make the actor follow the spline after pressing the e key? I’m struggling quite a lot for this one since I’m new to unreal.

[@user-wo3ym4bj8e]

I tried a rotation on a simple obeject without interaction and it doesnt work to add on the location, despite the world or local variants I tried. Any ideas ?

[@benhardwiesner6963]

Uhm I think the X rotation is not right.... Z alone keeps it flat. X rotates it in the same way as Y but perpendicular in world perspective. I dont think that is what you want

[@StanLittlefield]

I think it's easy make it with target points!

[@randomraremr.chuletas290]

9:40 10:09 Spline Direction Control Manage Adding more Points on the Line

[@real2late]

Thats sooo coool!!!

[@introcourso14]

Very cool ,thanks

[@davidgentry5971]

For some reason when I enter the trigger box, the boat does not move, it slightly rotates a bit and then just stops. I have been over this video multiple times making sure I set mine up exactly like yours did, I am not sure why mine is not working. The only difference I have is that it is cast to the first-person character. I am hoping it is not an issue of Unreal versions causing the problem.

[@squidguset]

my platform stops at about halfway wen going up and down. please help i don't now what i am doing wrong

[@slothures]

While I'm not making a platform [linear moving drones] every time I run the game it for some reason pivots to look to the -x direction. Any idea on how to fix this?

[@GaryParkin]

WOW! Thank you. This was great. So the Timeline is like a C# For loop but with parameters. And when you add in a variable, it's like adding the variable inside the loop, like this: for (int i = 0; i < 5; i++), in your case it looks like this for (float TravelDistance; TravelDistance < 1.0; TravelDistance++) {} In VB this would be For TravelDistance = 0 to TravelDistance + 1 Next. YES! sorry for being a geek. :D

[@JiaNaDaRen15]

Just ran through this tutorial this week with my friend and had a super fun time building this platform. Really well explained, great video.

[@briansimpson3863]

Thank you, helped me with spline movement for a lot of things not just Platforms.

[@bodamat]

Excellent job! All tutorials very good and useful! I made almost all game for your tutorials! Thank you very much!

[@kezaruzero1647]

im starting to make side scroller game this what im looking for thanks sir because some tutorial outdated using matinee thing

[@ThomasFerrick]

I used a cube and for some reason I needed to add 50 degrees to the rotate Z in order for it to be rotated correctly.

[@grid4892]

how do i make it keep on doing it cause it does the reverse and then stops and i want it to keep going. PLEASE REPLY thx

[@RyanLaley]

Inside the timeline is a loop option

[@grid4892]

@@RyanLaley ok thx