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Anything I can improve in the future?

@@DanGoodayleUnreal hey, it was really helpful and it even compiled in the end ;) you could perhaps expand the includes section next time

Gotcha! I will do, thanks!

Glad it was entertaining at least! What do you mean you are in a dev kit and can’t access the C++ though?

​@@DanGoodayleUnrealI am making a mod for Conan exiles and their death kit prevents us from accessing the c+ Plus directly.. we can only use the visual programming nodes​

Ahh I hear you!

It’s all down to memory management, you can just have everything loaded up front and just hope people have enough memory to keep everything loaded, or you can incrementally increase the load whilst also decreasing it by freeing up data that isn’t being used still.

Also load times, if loading one asset causes another 1000 to be loaded it’ll be very very slow

@@DanGoodayleUnreal I understand that. That's my point. Everybody can tell my why hard references are BAD. But nobody ever explains when they can be GOOD. If they are always bad, why do they exist?

@johnterpack3940 they can be good too! Sometimes you want an asset to be always loaded along with the primary asset, a character mesh and the materials for example. You need both in order to correctly render it, so in that case a hard reference is good.

Very nice way to do it! Great job, would love to see the results for that

@@DanGoodayleUnreal I would love to show you, but it's not quite ready! xD I can ping you when it's presentable if you want..

@007LvB sounds good to me!

Hey there, what issues are you seeing? What version of Unreal are you on?

Amazing! Glad to hear it was useful

Heya they modified the system in 5.4 th-cam.com/video/NXucLYFOp8Q/w-d-xo.html

@@DanGoodayleUnreal Thank you! Pin it, so everybody can read it.

Very true! I need to look at what this compiles too, would be an interesting comparison to see how the performance is impacted

@@DanGoodayleUnreal I just hope there is no IF in the stencil compare node :P

Okay!

Glad it was helpful!

Unless you are buying a plugin there isn’t a way to setup GAS in blueprints. Then recommended way I’ve seen it used in big projects is C++ with blueprint abilities as I showed 👍

@@DanGoodayleUnreal yes, thanks, I was unaware of that until I saw everybody do it :D

I'm not sure that doing it by a CVar is the best option here - You'd probably want to set all of the materials you are using as "Unlit" instead of the default. If you have a main shader, set that to unlit and then use derivations of that shader for everything else it should give you that effect. That being said there is probably more to it that you'd need to do to fully disable the lighting systems.

@@DanGoodayleUnreal yeah i heard about that or creating a unlit PP material to do so but i was wondering if its possible to do it at low lvl same as the editor does. On shipping packaged builds.

You aren’t the first person to say that! I’ve been trying new settings in later videos so hopefully that’s fixed. Hope the video itself was okay

Sounds good! What kind of task are you trying to create? I found myself able to use most of the pre-made ones usually and only occasionally needed to roll my own ability task

@@DanGoodayleUnrealmy man. suubbbbbed

I sure can! Inventory systems with replication or saving and loading can be quite complicated to build. If you are looking for a quick ready made example Lyra has something that ticks those boxes already, but if you’d like something more stripped back I’ll put together a demonstration.

Part two is up now, though it just goes over creating a gameplay effect execution, I’ve been struggling to think of what a part two would be.

Volume too low?

Part two just went up, though I was struggling to find what to make it on 😄

Not sure what you mean there Araz :)

The latest video has everything up on GitHub 👍

So the blueprint interface requires a hard ref and you are pass in a soft ref? If you try and do that it'll do a cast from soft to hard ref (in blueprint it'll look like a light blue dot changing to a darker blue dot). If the asset has been loaded previously (and is still loaded) it'll resolve to the correct asset, however if it hasn't been loaded it'll return a nullptr. This can lead to odd behavior in cooked builds, as you may load the asset without knowing in the editor (you can load an asset in the editor just by double clicking it), but in a cooked build that asset may not be loaded.

@@DanGoodayleUnreal Hi. Thanks for the reply. No, I passed a soft ref in the interface. In my player bp I defined the soft variable "deathanimmonatge" (and entered the anim montage) and hooked it up to a interface function (soft ref) . My gameplay abilty uses the interface to pick up the montage. But I can just hook up the interface node in my ability bp to the play montage node and the anim play without having to load the asset. I haven´t opened the montage in the editor, so I don´t know why I´m am not getting a nullpt :-/ . very odd..

Could you grab some screenshots and post them here? Feel free to retract whatever you'd like, but it'll be helpful to debug things - and for anyone curious reading the comments :)

@@unreal_metronomus678 Cook the game in development mode and log whether the soft ref is valid when you aren't expecting it to be. The editor is super unreliable when it comes to debugging stuff held in memory. If it is valid and it shouldn't be, there's a 100% chance the asset is being hard-referenced elsewhere, which you can use the reference viewer to check.

@@GlassesAndCoffeeMugs Yes, after restarting the computer for a couple of times, I I got an error message that the asset wasn’t loaded ( correct behaviour) . Hmm, yes, you are right about the editor being unreliable sometimes .. anyway, thanks for your reply.

Awesome, thank you!

Which async node are you after? I think that was on the version before (can’t check right now I’m travelling)

Thanks for watching!

Soon! I’ll be going over the new upgrades, some common patterns and gotchas 👍

Glad it was helpful!

No problem!

You can learn it! Are you just starting out?

@DanGoodayle ya just been messing around with shooters but wanted more Strategy and rpg. So this is exactly what I want but never done plug-ins or coded so we shall see how much hair I have left after learning this 🤣🤣🤣

@saboogly gotcha! Best of luck, lots to learn but take it a day at a time.

Post a gist of your code and I’ll try and help 👍

@@DanGoodayleUnreal It's fine I sorted it out. I'm currently hopping between tutorials so I had a few things I needed to change.

Thanks, will do!

Good question! I usually use the damage as a meta attribute on the target, then when the damage attribute changes it then modifies the health attribute. That way if I have things like armor or shields as an attribute I can then take from those attribute first before modifying the health. That way when you only need to apply “damage” to a target, knowing that shield and armor stats are handled with it. Even if you don’t have those extra attributes right now, having that split means you don’t have to remake all of your effects in the future if you do actually add them. I also use an execution modifier on the effect to modify the outgoing damage by incoming / outgoing damage modifier’s so I can add global modifiers to a character (like a 2x damage buff)

Glad it could help!

Thanks! Next video is coming soon

Rider!

That’s fantastic, thank you!

Likely! However off hand I don’t know of a way to do it. You can add things to the auto complete so it’d be a case of doing that with your enum values