Event BeginPlay not working properly?

[konig6]

I'm trying to get a point in World Space and convert it into Viewport space. I know how to do that.

The issue comes when I try to do it on BeginPlay vs when I do it in Event Tick. Take a look at the 2 pictures below. Looks like if the Player Controller isn't loaded on begin play, but is on event tick. Judge yourselves:
And the output is this:


What might be the problem?

[konig6]

UPDATE:
Adding a Delay node of 0.01 seconds right after BeginPlay now seems to yield the correct value. It seems like if I needed to give UE4 a bit of time to "catch up" and read the correct value out of the "Project World Location To Widget Position" node.

Even if this works, seems like a bit of an artificial solution. Is the Epic team aware of this issue? Maybe it's just me, that I don't understand very well how all this works behind the scenes?

[BrUnO XaVIeR]

You can't control which blueprints are going to fire BeginPlay first.
I had a plugin that can do that, but I ended up killing it because there was talks about Epic about to add said functionality...

Apparently it didn't go forward, I don't know why.

https://forums.unrealengine.com/comm...xecution-order

[konig6]

Thanks Bruno. The images in your post are blurred out. Is the plugin being updated? Anyway, I managed to work a way around it by adding a delay node with a time sufficiently high, say 0.3 seconds (almost unnoticeable for players at the beginning of the game).

[Everynone]

Anyway, I managed to work a way around it by adding a delay node with a time sufficiently high, say 0.3 seconds (almost unnoticeable for players at the beginning of the game).

Make sure you read this:

https://docs.unrealengine.com/en-US/...low/index.html

The most important bit - "However, there are differences between standalone and editor modes, both in terms of the exact order of some of the functions that are called, and in which functions are called. "

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This gent took it apart manually and got really close to nailing it.

https://answers.unrealengine.com/que...order-for.html

[konig6]

Thank you for the heads up Everynone. I'll read more into this.