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You can test it, type in the little console thing I think it's the tilde key ` then type stat fps. Casting isn't too bad on performance unless you're doing it every frame on large classes, from what I understand. Also what I like to do is cast once then set a reference variable then use that variable instead of casting.

You could either create two separate materials or use a material parameter to set the color from green to red is my guess.

@@everflamestudio hmm, i did try that but it just used both of the materials on all of the hidden objects, which just made a brown slop sort of color, is there a way to only have pmm affect specific meshes? Im having a look on if turning a customstencil node to a bitmask value could work, but im having issues lerping the bitmasks to the last lerpnode before the emissive output pin.

hold on, i got it to work with using custom stencil mask. Now im worried that its too spaghettios to read, but transforming it into a material function and call it for every different color might work.

Do you need it to be an AI with a behavior tree or would any actor suffice?

This project does not, blueprint only.

Yeah interfaces can be good but they're not always necessary so if you hear someone say "casts are bad use interfaces" take that with a large grain of salt. The main valid reason I've actually seen for interfaces in practice is if you want people to be able to swap in and out different classes i.e. you made an archer class but you want to use it in another project with a different character base class... but now you have to go and fix all the cast nodes to match. Instead you can create an archer interface and add the interface to the new class.... but that's not even that great of a solution, an archery component might be better. Someone with a little deeper knowledge in that area than me would probably mention the way memory is handled and that classes that cast to others hold that other object in memory as long as they exist even if the other class has been destroyed. So they might say to use soft object pointers and references... I'm not 100% sure about that but it's something to have some awareness of. You can also run into some traps with them that I can't remember off the top of my head - probably just debugging issues where the interface is assumed to work where a cast will actually fail and therefore can throw an error. Anyway that's my rant on interfaces. Take that with a grain of salt as well ha. I might do something like that if I get around to continuing the series... as much fun as it is to do a search & replace of all cast nodes to swap with interface messages. Yeah I doubt I'll do that in this one probably better to start a new series that covers interfaces and components...

@@everflamestudio I thank you so much for this answer 🙏 thats one of the best advice given to me so far. I’ve only heard about how bad casts are and avoid them at any cost but this presents a totally new perspective to me. Guess i shouldn’t be to afraid of casts and just avoid them in case’s where it really makes sense like an interaction system or something like this?! ✌️ man thanks. Keep your goofiness up 😂

@@daliendaan That's a perfect example of what to use an interface for. Also, if you have a piece of code that is being called multiple times you may want to avoid casting every time in that section. It is my understanding that every time you cast you basically check to see if the object class matches which takes a bit of time, usually not a big deal if done once here and there. Instead you can pass a reference of the object you were casting to and set that as a variable. You can access the functions and variables of that object through that new reference variable. I'm pretty sure this is more efficient than casting every time... just be aware that since this is blueprints and not C++ the variable reference -may- not be "up to date" with the actual object if that object's variables have changed. Off the top of my head I'm actually not sure if blueprint variables of objects are like pointers to the object or copies of the object... I should probably test that as that is pretty important 😆 If there is one thing you want to avoid using, it's tick... just ask yourself, "does this code need to be called 60-100 times per second?"

The project was built in 5.2 and is compatible with 5.4 and up.

I am one of the few people who is doing things that nobody else has done and at least made a video of it - this is just showcasing a different way to use geometry script which is part of a series. A series where we explore different things that can be done with geo-script, not master fields for destruction. I might make videos on that that later but I already spent years learning destruction in Houdini so anything else feels like a downgrade. The whole projectile thing is because at the time of this video it had probably been about 3 years since I had to set up projectiles - and even then I was using epic's GAS system. Some of these videos I know exactly what I am doing, some of these videos I'm trying things and sharing how to do it. Sometimes I forget simple things but the truth is I have covered more ground than most. If you paid attention you would know this isn't a geometry collection, it's a procedural geometry. There are cool things you can do with it by using it in ways it wasn't originally intended. Also when I make these videos the odds are I'm probably tired.

@KB-nt7eg dude you sound like you got some kind of fist up your ass. Also you're the one who doesn't know his shit, Chaos is suitable for a lot of things but it's still limited, resource intensive and buggy as hell. Chaos is suitable for certain things, and geometry scripting is suitable for other purposes. Of course if you were a real dev, you'd know this. Don't listen to this guy OP, this is a fine tutorial on geometry scripting. Keep up the good work.

Lol dude chill, this is a tutorial on geometry scripting not Chaos. Chaos can do a lot but it isn't suitable for everything, if you were a dev you'd know the differences and usages of each. This is a fine tutorial OP, keep up the good work.

Yeah you can increase the vertex count and change the angle of the shape to get a smoother slope this was just a super simple example.

@@everflamestudio thank you!

I like that idea.

@@everflamestudio I gotta say though, seeing your process for trying another hitbox and it just not working made me feel saner as I was also trying my own version of this and faced the exact same issue

That would take its own video... you can either have the player create the chorded action via menu buttons to set the new chorded action or record input from the player once they begin creating a new chorded action.

@@everflamestudio I would love a video on that, actually there is no tutorial anywhere online which explains how to allow the player to remap, for instance, alt + S or shift + F to an action. You would be the first and surely a good way to get views !

Hey no plans currently but that could change in the future.

Hey I've added most of your requests to an update list after we integrated choppable trees into your project over discord. Good stuff.

@@everflamestudio Awesome Man! Where can i check out the update?

@@bossmunc23 It's not out yet but I'll let you know. Already got most of it done just have a visual inventory to set up then fix a bug where the tree falls through the ground if you try to chop it before the timer is finished lol. Since you already bought it the update will happen in the Unreal Launcher and I think you'll have to re-add it. I'll make a video on the setup for existing projects based on what we went through.

Hell yeah definitely looking forward to it​@everflamestudio

@@bossmunc23 I made a project integration tutorial here:th-cam.com/video/vgIKTzeCYPc/w-d-xo.html and the asset is here: www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/product/choppable-trees Since you already have it, you should be able to update it in the Epic Games Launcher... you may have to delete the old stuff I'm not sure how that works tbh. Either way that project integration video should have all the directions we went over and in a much shorter amount of time. Thanks

What kind of change in noise? You can modify the noise parameters at runtime to change the shape of it so it would be more or less spikey.

@@everflamestudio how cool that you answered, thank you!! can I apply noise to my own custom mesh (with complex collision), and how will the collisions change in runtime when the noise changes from 0.33 to .077? (for example) ... Is the collision changeable during runtime?

@@george6ix9ine20 I'm not sure, try it! I imagine if you're using complex collision it will update to the new shape, it's probably not super performant but eventually with how powerful computers are getting that won't matter so much.

... Should you choose to accept...

Yes as long as that character is set up to ragdoll then you just trigger the ragdoll event when hit with a vehicle. From the vehicle blueprint you create an overlap event and then check if the hit actor is a character, cast to the character and call the ragdoll event. For vehicle flipping over you need some way to know the vehicle flipped, like checking the rotation, then again trigger the character's ragdoll event. In that case you will need a reference to the character/s which you can assign when they enter the vehicle. Hope that helps.

Awesome I love it when that happens.

Right, I thought it would be way more difficult to get the intersections. If you think this video is cool you might like the follow up video that shows an X-Ray type material: th-cam.com/video/vw_wwbSQU3E/w-d-xo.html

Awesome good luck with your Archviz app. I'm wondering if there are other videos that could help the Archviz crew.

Thanks haha

Hey thanks!

I'm not sure what you mean by gold material. You may just want to delete it and create a new one instead of trying to change it, probably easier.

Hope it helps!

Hey thanks

Glad I could help. I made this video just because I saw one person ask how to do it in a fb group and now it's helping quite a few people which is really cool to see.

@@everflamestudio so I tried to scale this up a little and I ran into the issue that the array orders the markers in a very weird way. Any suggestions on how to make sure that when you add the markers into the array they follow the proper order of indexes?

@@VinoVenitas It's probably the "Get Actors of All Class" node that is shuffling the order. You can do a couple of things: create an editable array in an object such as the teleporter that exists in the level where you manually add all of the markers to it in order in the editor. Or you could get all actors of the marker class then sort them by their names by splitting the string with the affix "_" and comparing the number after that. First option is easier up until there are a lot of spawn markers. Hope that helps.

@@everflamestudio yeah it does, thank you

That's awesome!

I'm not sure at this point, think I'm going to branch off to some other projects for a bit, currently working on an Archer AI that can patrol and guard.