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

** Taking BP Node Requests**

Does anyone have any BP node requests?

should be simple utility stuff that could be applicable to many projects.

Functionality you’d eventually like to see added to the engine if possible.

Let me know!

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Hi ,

Is it possible to take the Pawn Sensing function under actors and make it where it can see 360 degrees around? Right now it seems to be locked at 90 degrees. I’m sure it makes sense for a human to not have peripheral vision going to the back of there head however maybe other creatures may have eyes on the back of there head. :slight_smile:

Also,

Screen Brightness or Gamma. Not sure if can be already.

How difficult would it be to add a node that can present 2d image data (aka textures) as an array of vector4s? I would imagine that functionality would be very useful for a lot of people. Just a thought. Cheers,

J^2

For 360 awareness you can use something much simpler, just a distance check! You just want to get actors of class and do a vector length squared check with your AI unit :slight_smile:

Let me know if works!

Ah yes, that is on my list :slight_smile:

What do you mean by Vector4s? Are you talking about the Material Editor now? Even though it looks like blueprints that is a completely different system that I cannot so easily add nodes to :slight_smile: If you meant something else let me know!

Do you mean Linear Color when you say Vector4?

You want an image turned into an array of Linear Colors?


Any other requests anyone?

:)

[COLOR=“#0000FF”]Draw Thick Circle With Axis Control[/COLOR]

Fun node for you!

With node you can draw circles!

And you can control their thickness, as well as how many points make up the circle!

You can also have axis control!

So you can draw circles horizontally, vertically, at angles, any way you like, with convenient BP node inputs!

See pics!

:slight_smile:

**Get Screen Resolutions
**
Now works in packaged games!

You can use with your UMG menus!

It gathers data specific to the end user’s display adapter, including available refresh rates :slight_smile:

old but has nice in-game pic


**With Refresh Rates**

![d4117a7a04ee5f316cbeae35c6e681739e2c00f8.jpeg|3200x2400](upload://ug2FBEKxxP0mtxmJWbAiVthpvzq.jpeg)

No Refresh Rates!

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70+ Extra BP Nodes For You!

No c++ required!

No compile required!

Download and plug in!

Latest plugin download is here:

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Well I said vector4 since that seems to be how texture data is presented. Basically, I want to be able to get the pixel values of a texture map in a blueprint. For instance, I would like to use a texture map to control placement of actors in a level. As far as I can tell, there’s no way to do that currently. Am I wrong?

J^2

Wow is a really neat idea!

I will work on getting you the per-pixel data, as an extended version of my Load Image From File node.

:slight_smile:

Hi , I’ve been using the Load Image node and it’s now a vital part of my software! - As you’re looking into the node again for asset placement thing have you thought of an async loader? I’m loading about 20 2k images into an array and the whole engine locks for about 8 secs while happens. There’s a similar node in the 4.8 which loads URL’s async - I’ve experimented with to load my images but they arrive out of order so I gave up on it. Also - if you take a look at the source of that node - there’s a flag somewhere in it which forces no mipmaps - it might be worth a look to see if you can flag compression or other import options. I of course have no idea with the c++ side as you know so email is as much as I can contribute.

Cheers !

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, how do you get working in packaged games? When I try running a packaged game’s .exe, I get the error message "Plugin ‘VictoryPlugin’ failed to load because module ‘VictoryBPLibrary’ could not be found. Going by thread (Plugins Are Only Working For People in a Package Game if they have C++ Project - C++ - Epic Developer Community Forums) I get the impression the source code needs to be compiled into the project, though I haven’t tried that yet.

Please make a pull request for your “Set Viewport Mouse Position” Nodes :slight_smile:

After 4.8 happens things will be easier, for now just add an empty Actor class to your project via File->Add Code to project or using the 4.7 way of adding code.

Then my plugin will get compiled when your game gets packaged!

Thanks for suggestion John!

I will write down to do :slight_smile:

Yes I am working on my Load Image node right now actually!

Async = great idea!

option for no mip maps = great idea!

Right now I am trying to get the pixels :slight_smile:

I can multi thread the loading of the image, the will be how your BP code will be told properly when the loading process has finished

I will probably need an UImageLoader component to organize and you can ping Victory Image Loader to to ask it if it has finished loading everything.

component could be added to any actor / a new actor that gets spawned on level start

:slight_smile:

Hey ! Think you could bang out a node for making a Victory Key? Like we feed a string in the format your Key as String into node and it gives us the Key struct back? We need to store our Keybindings in a database and storing them as strings would be best. We’d really appreciate it! Your BP nodes are the best!

Okay will be the next thing I work on in my spare, buuuuut check out my next poooost!

Load Image From File, and Retrieve Pixel Data!

Dear Community,

As requested I’ve made a node that let’s you load an image from file, and get the pixel data from the image for use in Blueprints!

Very conveniently, the pixel data comes in the Linear Color format so you can directly plug your pixels into Print string nodes or any other node that wants a color in UE4 Blueprints!!

** node is live as of April 17th, 2015 5:43am version!**


**Bonus Just For You ~ Get Pixel by Coordinate!**

And as a bonus, just for you Community members, I've added a node that let's you specify a pixel coordinate and retrieves that value from the pixel data array!

Picture explanation

In the top picture I am loading an image at runtime, and then using print string to display the color values of different pixels within the image, notice how they match correctly in a 5 x 5 image! (it blurs cause of how textures work)


**BP Implementation**

![LoadImagePixels.jpg|1280x960](upload://x4rr84sVoeasRSMdQnWY13yUVvZ.jpeg)

![GetImagePixel.jpg|1280x960](upload://ywwata5V8Ypp8BnDKI1xqeuHKhi.jpeg)

Indices Start at 0,0

Please note that in the image that is 5 x 5, the lower right corner is 4,4 because picture indices start at 0,0 not 1,1.


**PNG Format**

Please make sure to use .png format for small images if you are wanting to use the pixel data to proceduraly generate world, jpg has compression quality loss that destroys pixel-level precision, especially for small files.

Plugin Download ( Tiny file, about 0.5 MB )

**Latest Download From the UE4 Wiki Site **


**My C++ Code For You**

Here's the C++ code for my new node!



```


UTexture2D* UVictoryBPFunctionLibrary::Victory_LoadTexture2D_FromFile_Pixels(const FString& FullFilePath,EJoyImageFormats ImageFormat,bool& IsValid, int32& Width, int32& Height, TArray<FLinearColor>& OutPixels)
{
	//Clear any previous data
	OutPixels.Empty();
	
	IsValid = false;
	UTexture2D* LoadedT2D = NULL;
	
	IImageWrapperModule& ImageWrapperModule = FModuleManager::LoadModuleChecked<IImageWrapperModule>(FName("ImageWrapper"));
	// Note: PNG format.  Other formats are supported
	IImageWrapperPtr ImageWrapper = ImageWrapperModule.CreateImageWrapper(GetJoyImageFormat(ImageFormat));
 
	//Load From File
	TArray<uint8> RawFileData;
	if (!FFileHelper::LoadFileToArray(RawFileData, *FullFilePath)) return NULL;
	//~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
	  
	//Create T2D!
	if (ImageWrapper.IsValid() && ImageWrapper->SetCompressed(RawFileData.GetData(), RawFileData.Num()))
	{  
		const TArray<uint8>* UncompressedBGRA = NULL;
		if (ImageWrapper->GetRaw(ERGBFormat::BGRA, 8, UncompressedBGRA))
		{
			LoadedT2D = UTexture2D::CreateTransient(ImageWrapper->GetWidth(), ImageWrapper->GetHeight(), PF_B8G8R8A8);
			
			//Valid?
			if(!LoadedT2D) return NULL;
			//~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
			
			//Out!
			Width = ImageWrapper->GetWidth();
			Height = ImageWrapper->GetHeight();
			
			const TArray<uint8>& ByteArray = *UncompressedBGRA;
			//~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
			
			for(int32 v = 0; v < ByteArray.Num(); v+=4) 
			{ 
				if(!ByteArray.IsValidIndex(v+3)) 
				{ 
					break;
				}   
				  
				const uint8& B = ByteArray[v];
				const uint8& G = ByteArray[v+1];
				const uint8& R = ByteArray[v+2];
				const uint8& A = ByteArray[v+3]; 
				
				OutPixels.Add(FLinearColor(R,G,B,A));
			}
			//~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
			   
			//Copy!
			void* TextureData = LoadedT2D->PlatformData->Mips[0].BulkData.Lock(LOCK_READ_WRITE);
			FMemory::Memcpy(TextureData, UncompressedBGRA->GetData(), UncompressedBGRA->Num());
			LoadedT2D->PlatformData->Mips[0].BulkData.Unlock();

			//Update!
			LoadedT2D->UpdateResource();
		}
	}
	 
	// Success!
	IsValid = true;
	return LoadedT2D;
	
}


```



C++ Pixel Core

Here’s the core of my C++ code above where I turn the loaded byte array into Linear Color Pixel data!

Note how the provided format is BGRA so I have to re-arrange the values when I send them out to the FLinearColor constructor!



const TArray<uint8>& ByteArray = *UncompressedBGRA;

for(int32 v = 0; v < ByteArray.Num(); v+=4) 
{ 
	if(!ByteArray.IsValidIndex(v+3)) 
	{ 
		break;
	}   
	  
	const uint8& B = ByteArray[v];
	const uint8& G = ByteArray[v+1];
	const uint8& R = ByteArray[v+2];
	const uint8& A = ByteArray[v+3]; 
	
	OutPixels.Add(FLinearColor(R,G,B,A));
}



Enjoy!

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You truly are an unstoppable coding machine, . Thank you! Can’t wait to try out. Is in the current download? Cheers!

J^2

Wait hold on a few minutes!, wait about 2-5 minutes and then get my latest version!

I just made the code more efficient by getting the byte data by const reference! :slight_smile:


**C++ Pixel Core**

Here's the core of my C++ code above where I turn the loaded byte array into Linear Color Pixel data!

**Note how the provided format is BGRA** so I have to re-arrange the values when I send them out to the FLinearColor constructor!



```


const TArray<uint8>& ByteArray = *UncompressedBGRA;

for(int32 v = 0; v < ByteArray.Num(); v+=4) 
{ 
	if(!ByteArray.IsValidIndex(v+3)) 
	{ 
		break;
	}   
	  
	const uint8& B = ByteArray[v];
	const uint8& G = ByteArray[v+1];
	const uint8& R = ByteArray[v+2];
	const uint8& A = ByteArray[v+3]; 
	
	OutPixels.Add(FLinearColor(R,G,B,A));
}


```



Plugin Download ( Tiny file, about 0.5 MB )

It’s ready now, top-most link, April 17th!

**Latest Download From the UE4 Wiki Site **
https://wiki.unrealengine.com/File:VictoryPlugin.zip

Excellent! Grabbing now. That’s very strange how they change the order of color channels. I never would have guessed that. Cheers,

J^2

Your question got me thinking, so I fixed the code and made it even more efficient! I am now loading the Texture2D in RGBA format, which is PF_R8G8B8A8.


**My C++ Code, Even More Faster Now!**

Notice how now I am not even storing the const references, **I am plugging directly into the FLinearColor constructor!**



```


UTexture2D* UVictoryBPFunctionLibrary::Victory_LoadTexture2D_FromFile_Pixels(const FString& FullFilePath,EJoyImageFormats ImageFormat,bool& IsValid, int32& Width, int32& Height, TArray<FLinearColor>& OutPixels)
{
	//Clear any previous data
	OutPixels.Empty();
	
	IsValid = false;
	UTexture2D* LoadedT2D = NULL;
	
	IImageWrapperModule& ImageWrapperModule = FModuleManager::LoadModuleChecked<IImageWrapperModule>(FName("ImageWrapper"));
	
	IImageWrapperPtr ImageWrapper = ImageWrapperModule.CreateImageWrapper(GetJoyImageFormat(ImageFormat));
 
	//Load From File
	TArray<uint8> RawFileData;
	if (!FFileHelper::LoadFileToArray(RawFileData, *FullFilePath)) return NULL;
	//~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
	  
	//Create T2D!
	if (ImageWrapper.IsValid() && ImageWrapper->SetCompressed(RawFileData.GetData(), RawFileData.Num()))
	{  
		const TArray<uint8>* UncompressedRGBA = NULL;
		if (ImageWrapper->GetRaw(**ERGBFormat::RGBA**, 8, UncompressedRGBA))
		{
			LoadedT2D = UTexture2D::CreateTransient(ImageWrapper->GetWidth(), ImageWrapper->GetHeight(), ****PF_R8G8B8A8****);
			
			//Valid?
			if(!LoadedT2D) return NULL;
			//~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
			
			//Out!
			Width = ImageWrapper->GetWidth();
			Height = ImageWrapper->GetHeight();
			
			const TArray<uint8>& ByteArray = *UncompressedRGBA;
			//~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
			
			for(int32 v = 0; v < ByteArray.Num(); v+=4) 
			{ 
				if(!ByteArray.IsValidIndex(v+3)) 
				{ 
					break;
				}   
				     
				**OutPixels.Add(
					FLinearColor(
						ByteArray[v],		//R
						ByteArray[v+1],		//G
						ByteArray[v+2],		//B
						ByteArray[v+3] 		//A
					)
				);**
			}
			//~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
			   
			//Copy!
			void* TextureData = LoadedT2D->PlatformData->Mips[0].BulkData.Lock(LOCK_READ_WRITE);
			FMemory::Memcpy(TextureData, UncompressedRGBA->GetData(), UncompressedRGBA->Num());
			LoadedT2D->PlatformData->Mips[0].BulkData.Unlock();

			//Update!
			LoadedT2D->UpdateResource();
		}
	}
	 
	// Success!
	IsValid = true;
	return LoadedT2D;
	
}


```



Load Image From File and Get Pixel Data!

New Node Release Post is here!


**Plugin Download** ( Tiny file, about 0.5 MB )

It's ready now, top-most link, April 17th!

**Latest Download From the UE4 Wiki Site **
https://wiki.unrealengine.com/File:VictoryPlugin.zip

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