I’m working on an options menu for my game. Once the options are changed you can see the result so I know they work but when you open up the options menu again the sliders and comboboxes are all reset or empty.
I tried saving the selections out to a file using the save object blueprint so I can reference them later but it doesnt seem to be saving anything.
When I start the game up and press options it says that it loaded the low setting which seems to be the case since the shadows are gone but I don’t understand where its getting this value. The shadow quality variable is set to a default of high and so is the saved shadow quality. I can change the value and the scene updates properly and stays that way even when I press back but when I open the options menu again it switches to low on its own.
I can’t figure out where its getting that value from or why it switches to it every time I open the options menu.
If I set the selected item in the designer view then it shows up as that value every single time you open the menu regardless of what you selected.
I tried to set the selected option to whatever the value was changed to but it doesn’t seem to make any difference at all. If the manual input was set to high it would read high whenever it was opened again regardless if it was set in the script and if it was left blank it would be blank next time options was opened.
I figured out what I was doing wrong. There has to be a variable outside of the widget that contains the information you want to store. I stored mine in the player controller but plan on moving it to the gamestate. Here is the blueprint fix:
