(39) Rama's Extra Blueprint Nodes for You as a Plugin, No C++ Required!

[Rama]

Hi Rama ,

Thank you very much for the update!

In addition, I have a question, please: do you know any way to 'read' strings from a file over the internet (from example: mywebsite.com/myfile.txt)? I have tried some combinations with your 'Load string from file' node (which is incredible for local use!), and with the default 'Download image' node, with no luck. I wouldn't care about reading it directly from the web, or downloading that file to disk, and read from it after being already locally saved. I would be very glad if you would have any idea.

Thank you very much and best regards!

This is a great idea! I will work on this when I have time!

Hey there!
amazing plugin, use it in all my project because it have so many use cases! I have a question for you,
Can you expose the "CrouchedHalfHeight" in a function that can be set? because currently it cant be set through blueprint and i think it might be a good addition? Or a function that automatically offsets the capsule based on the half height instead, so you can change the capsule components half height and it allow it to offset too.
For now i created my own function but i just thought it might be a good addition to your plugin!
Anyhow, have a great day/night!

This is also a great node idea, I wll look into this!

♥

Rama

[Rama]

4.26 Update Is Here!

Dear Victory Plugin Users,

Here is 4.26 !!!!
http://www.mediafire.com/file/0q10k9...gin26.zip/file

Enjooooooy!

♥

Rama

[Syurli]

4.26 Update Is Here!

Dear Victory Plugin Users,

Here is 4.26 !!!!
http://www.mediafire.com/file/0q10k9...gin26.zip/file

Enjooooooy!

♥

Rama

thank you ~

[vladislav42]

4.26 Update Is Here!

Dear Victory Plugin Users,

Here is 4.26 !!!!
http://www.mediafire.com/file/0q10k9...gin26.zip/file

Enjooooooy!

♥

Rama

Thank you so much rama ♥

[NorthWeapon_Syed]

btw I got 4.26 working on a 4.25 version of the victory plugin just by changing one line:

VictoryPC.cpp:79 to

auto Request = Http->CreateRequest();

Was faster than downloading it from the link

[Georgy Treshchev]

Hi,
I have recently created a plugin to import the audio files with mp3, wav, flac in runtime.
https://github.com/Respirant/RuntimeAudioImporter

[stucki]

hi, first let me thank you very much for this very useful plugin !!!
i mainly use it for storing load/savegame thumbs-textures.
i have one question about it:
the textures stored seem very dark compared to my screen output of the scene.
is there any way to get the exact screen output ?
i tried messing with brightness in the 2d capture texture, but it wont make any difference ...
kind regards
stucki

[R4thren]

Hi,

Thanks for the great plugin @Rama, It works like a charm and helped me a lot with my game. But I am currently trying to port my game to android and I think it is causing the app to crash (I am on 4.26), I was wondering does this plugin support android? Or am I just doing something wrong and that's the reason for the crash?
Here the error I am getting before the crash happens.


Thanks

[R4thren]

hi, first let me thank you very much for this very useful plugin !!!
i mainly use it for storing load/savegame thumbs-textures.
i have one question about it:
the textures stored seem very dark compared to my screen output of the scene.
is there any way to get the exact screen output ?
i tried messing with brightness in the 2d capture texture, but it wont make any difference ...
kind regards
stucki

In case you are still looking for an answer, these settings inside the texture render target should make the image look the same as in the engine

[R4thren]

Hi,

Thanks for the great plugin @Rama, It works like a charm and helped me a lot with my game. But I am currently trying to port my game to android and I think it is causing the app to crash (I am on 4.26), I was wondering does this plugin support android? Or am I just doing something wrong and that's the reason for the crash?
Here the error I am getting before the crash happens.


Thanks

I figured it out in case someone is having the same issue:
Open the .uplugin and add android to the target platform wite list, then build it for android and it works like a charm.
Thanks again for the great plugin

[KeiraMewMew]

For the sake of documenting what was a really long struggle getting seeking / start from time / any deeper audio issues with an vorbis OGG -> soundwave importer, i found that UE4 relies on both the RawData and RawPCMData part of a soundwave to perform tasks deeper than just playing audio, the solution i found was to use the SerializeWaveFile function on pcm data to make a normal .wav type rawdata and then set the rawdata that way. I'm not certain if this works in packaged games. Code for setting the RawData:

 //SERIALIZE PCM AND FILL IN RAW DATA
TArray < uint8 > rawSerialized;
SerializeWaveFile(rawSerialized, sw->RawPCMData, info.SampleDataSize, info.NumChannels, info.SampleRate);
sw->RawData.Lock(LOCK_READ_WRITE);
void* LockedData = sw->RawData.Realloc(rawSerialized.Num());
FMemory::Memcpy(LockedData, rawSerialized.GetData(), info.SampleDataSize);
sw->RawData.Unlock();

Full Frankenstein OGG import code:

USoundWave* XXXXXXXXX::GetSoundWaveFromOGGFile(const FString& filePath, bool& Success){
if (filePath == "") { Success = false; return nullptr; }
char* filePathChar = TCHAR_TO_ANSI(*filePath);
USoundWave* sw = NewObject<USoundWave>(USoundWave::StaticClass());
if (!sw) { Success = false; return nullptr; }
TArray < uint8 > rawFile1;
FFileHelper::LoadFileToArray(rawFile1, filePath.GetCharArray().GetData());
FByteBulkData* bulkData = &sw->CompressedFormatData.GetFormat(TEXT("OGG"));
bulkData->Lock(LOCK_READ_WRITE);
FMemory::Memcpy(bulkData->Realloc(rawFile1.Num()), rawFile1.GetData(), rawFile1.Num());
bulkData->Unlock();
FSoundQualityInfo info;
FVorbisAudioInfo vorbis_obj;
if (!vorbis_obj.ReadCompressedInfo(rawFile1.GetData(), rawFile1.Num(), &info))
{
return nullptr;
}
else
{
sw->SoundGroup = ESoundGroup::SOUNDGROUP_Default;
sw->NumChannels = info.NumChannels;
sw->Duration = info.Duration;
//sw->TotalSamples = info.SampleDataSize;
sw->RawPCMDataSize = info.SampleDataSize;
sw->SetSampleRate(info.SampleRate);
// - Decompress and bake PCM Data from file into SoundWave
sw->RawPCMData = (uint8*)FMemory::Malloc(sw->RawPCMDataSize);
vorbis_obj.ExpandFile(sw->RawPCMData, &info);
sw->bDecompressedFromOgg = true;
//SERIALIZE PCM AND FILL IN RAW DATA
TArray < uint8 > rawSerialized;
SerializeWaveFile(rawSerialized, sw->RawPCMData, info.SampleDataSize, info.NumChannels, info.SampleRate);
sw->RawData.Lock(LOCK_READ_WRITE);
void* LockedData = sw->RawData.Realloc(rawSerialized.Num());
FMemory::Memcpy(LockedData, rawSerialized.GetData(), info.SampleDataSize);
sw->RawData.Unlock();
}

if (!sw) { Success = false; return nullptr; }

Success = true;
return sw;
}

[Maelgrim]

Hey Rama!!
I think I remember you had a plugin that allowed for much better performance when dealing with thousands of destructible meshes? Thanks man and great to hear from you as always,
Dj

[stucki]

In case you are still looking for an answer, these settings inside the texture render target should make the image look the same as in the engine

thx very much. Yes i am still searching .... will try this tomorrow !!

[Capsu1]

Rama, could you possibly look into these node suggestions?

-capsule trace with orientation (i hear this exists in C++ but the blueprint capsule trace mysteriously lacks it?)
-trace by distance and direction nodes: so for example instead of setting end points, you just set a starting point, unit vector direction, and float distance
-exposed engine quaternion and spherical interpolation functions
-vector += and -= like you have for floats currently
-clamp vector and clamp rotator to closest of number given directions, for example returning only 8 directions or 4 directions

thank you for all your hard work, and for such a wonderfully useful plugin.

[Grot13]

Hi, and thanks for this extremely usefull pluggin!!
I have a lot of pages in this topic but can't find my answer, I'm sorry... Is it still necessary to have a C++ programmer to package for android (and mac since I'm working with somebody using it)? I've read it was the case some times ago, but I'm using 4.25 and the pluggin may have changed in beetween.

Thanks