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there are also immense differences for ; cast and direct function call, interface function call, blueprint interface function call and blueprint library function calls. Afaik Cast+DirectCall is the fastest.

I am glad you enjoyed it, thank you!

of course but in his first try a blueprint child actor of a user created C++ class was a lot slower compared to a "pure" BP class actor, when implementing the same function in blueprint. Now that the function is in C++ it is faster as expected. but why is the bp child of a custom C++ class so slow... is there a way to overcome that? would packaging just fix it?

@@mangarookie u can use nativization for if u want ur bp faster when u package ur project.

I don't necessarily think that. I think a big part of it may be it running in the editor. I'm thinking once it is packaged the result may be different. I may have to try that now...

Great commentary, thank you. I do remember watching that video! Unreal does some amazing presentations. Again, this wasn't scientific at all, however, just a fun thing I decided to waste time on. Again, thank you for the comment, cheers

If so can u make a full tutorial like everything we have to know

I am somewhat working on that. Each How To video and Devlog I make is moving towards the game I am making. Are you thinking like an overview video?

@@tango-alpha-dev ya an overview of everything to make any game idea become a reality like for example I wanna make a baseball game or football game , im still new to unreal but ya like the animations and hitting the ball and the pitcher like how does it all work maybe u can do game projects based learning or overview if you’d like

@@tango-alpha-devya but like some tutorials don’t contain everything like u can out in animations UI like unique things that’s other tutorials don’t have

That is what it seemed mangarookie mentioned a pure cpp actor. I just posted that video here: th-cam.com/video/xiYXgAQwvrg/w-d-xo.html

That is an interesting idea. I might have to play with that.

@@tango-alpha-dev do it! do it now youtube person! >:@

Boom. Done. th-cam.com/video/xiYXgAQwvrg/w-d-xo.html

I absolutely will have more dev logs coming. Most of the items I add I try to do tutorials on, but yes, I will absolutely add more dev logs to show progress. Cheers

also how can you take areas of the city to use it as a smaller map , like 4 city block with everything in it besides the ppl and cars ???

Thank you so much for the suggestion! I have been working on the player functionality lately but I will be diving into the level design shortly and that is first on my list so stay tuned!

@@thadarkone5087 There is a little more work to be done on the NPC side of things in my project, but I will absolutely get into how to set up crowds and cars. Cheers

I am more than happy to help you work through that, shoot me a DM or email and I can get into it in more detail with you. Cheers

Lyra should have the equip pistol animation already built in

Thank you so much! Glad you enjoyed it!

Yes

But it is NOT done! I still have a bunch more coming, cheers

I hadn't thought of a horse system as I was working on a modern game and will be doing cars... But now that you mention it. There was a horse in one of the John Wick movies. I might have to do something like that

@@tango-alpha-dev so can you help me if i have question about animation and issues in lyra with horse riding??

Thank you!

Thank you so much! I do have plenty more on the way

Thank you!

That is an interesting request. Let me look into it

@@tayloranderson5438 please do !!!!

@@tayloranderson5438 if you can please do

From what I can in the logs, it gets loaded once at start. There are a lot of soft references in the blueprints so while the initial load time is longer, it doesn't seem to hurt performance at runtime.

I always disconnect pins so there are not errors. And if it is a bad cast, because of a deleted type or something, I wrap it in a comment so I know what I did. Sorry if you did not like it, I use this technique quite a bit, so I figured I would share.

@@tango-alpha-dev what if i used any SETTER OR a GETTER? if it was objects or varps, if u will say its already in the bp then if u copy the casts and repaste it, it will not make an error

@@MasiraIsCool Don't compile and you shouldn't have errors. You can save uncompiled blueprints, so no need to compile. I often times have a bunch of variables from other blueprints not compiled in the blueprint holder. I typically use this to store code I am still working on so I can see if I made changes that did or didn't work, I can see how I did it earlier. Sure, you can use something like blueprintue.com or even a notepad to store extra blueprint code you may want to come back to, but this is a quick reference and visual storage system.

@@tango-alpha-dev ok sorry, but you still have a big bleprint or infinity space, gl on ur chal

Hmm. I am currently working on some mods in the ABPs. The Lyra animation is extremely complex. There could be any number of issues. What animations you're using? How you have the linked layers set up? Any way to share more specifics?

@@tango-alpha-dev I think it's something to do with the ik and spine 5 solvers on the current rig included with Lyra. I was using the shotgun idle hipfire anim to create a new anim for a pump shotty, but every time I pull the anim in to sequencer and bake it to the rig you can literally watch the ik handles for the hand, virtual bones, and hand gun just default to the a pose location. So basically, anything that was created by epic works fine, but attempt to modify with additive and it'll break because the backward solve is broken on the rig. I'm in the process of fixing the rig to see if that resolves the issue. Btw I believe this is also why you have to set the weapon bone in the anim you created on this video. The weapon bone wasn't included in the rigs solver.

​@@gridtac2911 Oh man, I hear you. I am doing something for my game right now and the IK is all sorts of messed up. (Will make a video on it, maybe it will help your issue.) But keep me updated, if you figure it out, I would love to see it!

I move. That way you do not break dependencies

It should, the way that it is set up works within the framework of Lyra which does so through the cosmetic component. I have tested it in PIE using client servers so it should

Yes, you absolutely can delete the project. In fact, I did. I moved a few other things, like the crowd and the vehicles and I think one or two other folders those required, but then deleted the project. I have a fresh City Sample I reference, but that is only because I have the short term memory of Dori.

I am glad you liked the video. And, yes! I couldn't agree more. they have the city sample buildings you can add, which are great, but building a map from those would be a full time job for someone. Again, glad you like it! Cheers

@@tango-alpha-dev Hey... i was Wondering if U could make a (Link) to Download your (CitySample) Download U made Online? Becuz i Tryed this 5 Times after watching your video Over -&- Over again and i Kept having Missing Static Mesh and Material Problem's with the City Map from the 1 i Tryed to make???

I am so sorry, I am not sure what you mean by having to reload? Every time I close the engine, no matter the project, assets take a while to reload. Is that what you mean? Or do you mean you have to load the partitions? Let me know and I will see what I can do to help. Cheers

@@tango-alpha-dev I mean that when I reopen the project, I have to go to the world level, enclose the portion I want, the complete small city, and then wait for it to reload each time. I hope that makes more sense.

I actually put the blueprint up here: blueprintue.com/blueprint/i3hetzc1/ hopefully that helps. Cheers

Thank you so much for the compliment. I will eventually do a tutorial on packaging the game, but it may be a little bit. Depending on what you are looking for there may be a few options, like, are you looking to set up a dedicated server? Just a single player game? Let me know and I will see if I can help out. Cheers

That is definitely a great idea. I may wait until 5.5 to implement some of the graphic optimizations, as I am currently working on some gameplay mechanics, but it is definitely on the list, thank you for the suggestion.

Thank you so much! I am glad you like it

Are you asking how that is done or how to remove? It is done by default in the Lyra game. If you are interested I can work on breaking that down for you, if you're asking about how to remove it, I can show that too. Just let me know. Cheers,

My guess is that it would include combining meshes. I will look into that. One problem I could see arising, though, is that some of the files are in the folder _ExternalActors_ which doesn't show in the editor. Let me see what I can do.

I am sorry, I have not tried it in 5.3 yet. I have been playing in 5.4 lately so, let me see what I can do in that and I'll keep you posted.

Thank you so much, I am glad you like it! I've been working on a few different elements and have some more videos coming shortly

I have also done a straight migrate into other projects. That said, this seemed like a way to organize the files and keep them on say a separate hard drive to simply drag and drop. I have done that multiple times now with a few different projects. When done this way, it seems a bit faster than migrating it each time. But you do make a great point regardless. Thank you for the comment! Cheers

There is a lot of good info about the EULA on Epics site, from their terms to forum discussions. Their EULA is here: www.unrealengine.com/en-US/eula/unreal. Some good info on that very subject in their forums is here: forums.unrealengine.com/t/city-sample-in-eu-license-details/777090. I hope that at least points you in the right direction. Cheers

​@@tango-alpha-devthank you very much

Hi Hermit, thank you for commenting. There are a few tutorials on switching between characters in Lyra. I have a video here: th-cam.com/video/N9cnBkRhIO8/w-d-xo.html that shows how to set up character customization using Metahumans. However, Unreal has a few good demos on their page that show switching between custom characters. This video here: th-cam.com/video/5O-nTNMB19Y/w-d-xo.html starting at about the 12 minute mark shows using a custom character. I hope that helps! Let me know if you have any other questions. Cheers

Sorry you were not able to follow along. Let me try and help with at least the first part you mentioned. The "Pull from ads" is in reference from pulling the pin connection from the blueprint node. I am pulling from the "GetMainAnimBPTThreadSave.Gameplay Tag is ADS" node. That can be found in one of two ways. First you can copy it from the "Update Idle Anim" function, or you can create a new node by right clicking and typing "property access" and finding the right node under the Variables tab. From there click on the "Bind" selection in the node to bring up the drop down menu. Hover over the "GetMainAnimBPTThreadSave" with the arrow and you will find the "Gameplay Tag is ADS" there. I hope that helps. If you have any other questions just let me know. Cheers

Ouch, that definitely hurts a little bit, but thank you for the honest feedback. If there is anything I can help with so you can better be able to follow along, let me know. Cheers

Absolutely! I’m glad you liked it, cheers

Can you do an ability spell book and kind of system and a spell bar…using an item system.

@@davy4842 I haven't thought about adding spells as that doesn't quite fit with what I am working towards. That said, I could do a something with stamina and an inventory system that would work the same way. Let me see where I could work that in

It has to do with the underlying framework for Lyra and the Matrix City Sample. The City Sample project really isn't build for multiplayer, whereas Lyra is built with that in mind from the outset. I am sure you could migrate the Lyra framework into the City Sample, but I played around with it and there is a lot more redirecting and debugging. I found this method to be faster. Cheers

@@tango-alpha-dev k thanks