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

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@foxhound101;744326

Thanks so much for Plugin-Sama! It really works beautifully.

I have a small problem though:
I need to use the HMD commands VRHeadsetPutOnHead and VRHeadsetRemovedFromHead wich is only being implemented for the Rift in 4.17
so i will have to use your victory plugin(since im lost without it) with UE 4.17 once it is released. Is there a way i can compile the 4.16 version of
victory plugin into 4.17? or will i have to wait for the auther(the mighty-Sama) to compile a working 4.17 version?

Thanks for the help

4.17 see next posts!

@Brawph;744454

Thanks so much for your selection help! That worked really well for me!

I can’t believe I didn’t know about that node you mentioned, and the idea to split the selection between Player Controller and HUD was so much better, now I can actually have it go off of left click instead of any mouse button!

Thanks!

You’re welcome!

@Vahid;746243

Hello,
I need some help with Patching and Updating game process, that would be great if you can make a tutorial for that,

I tired flow :

but when i try to create a release based on another release gave me a Critical error, it’s okay if i make R2 based on nothing but in case problem is P3 contains P1 and P2 inside himself and it’s not good in large content update. I want each of them separate .

Another problem i have is with priority…
How engine should know P1, P2 and P3 priority order ?

Thank you.

@Vahid;746364

I didn’t see that before but that’s very similar to the way i did, but is the problem:

When you create first release we call R1 you’ve your base assets inside .pak file and it’s ok
then when you create your first Patch we call P1 it’ll add changes & assets to a new .pak file named New_P.pak and it’s ok
but problem starts here when you want to create P2, at point the new _P.pak has previous P1 content and it seems users must download P1 & P2 and when and if your P1 was a large file the P2 has P1 assets and makes it large.

My Solution is : use epic patching tool for some changing like scripting and small changes and create custom .pak for new assets and load them manually but way is a little hard to manage custom .pak file like creating and load priority .

Let me know what do you think?

I’ve not investigated Epic patching tool yet, thanks for the heads up though I will check it out as soon as I can!

@zale90;746464

Hello,

I’m trying to save a texture from a RenderTarget to a file. Used the C++ function to create a T2D from a RT and then used your VictoryGetPixelsArrayFromT2D and VictorySavePixels, but the file looks really weird and I guess it has to do with the compression you mentioned. However I can’t deactivate it, only choose between different settings like VectorDisplacementMap, Default DXT1 etc.). Where did you find the “Turn off compression” option?
When I use the engine function CaptureComponent2DSaveImage it works as it should except I get a HDR file I can’t work with, because I haven’t found a way to import it.

Edit:
Okay i got it finally working…
Instead of using a RenderTarget from the engine which always uses compression, I just generated it with C++ with the correct PixelFormat:

UTextureRenderTarget2D* blah::CreateRenderTargetBGRA8(UObject* outer, int32 TexWidth, int32 TexHeight)
{
	UTextureRenderTarget2D* newRT = NewObject<UTextureRenderTarget2D>(outer);
	newRT->InitCustomFormat(TexWidth, TexHeight, EPixelFormat::PF_B8G8R8A8, 0);
	return newRT;
}

and used to create a T2D from a RT2D

UTexture2D* bla::RenderTargetToTexture2D(UObject *outer, UTextureRenderTarget2D* target)
{
	target->CompressionSettings = TextureCompressionSettings::TC_MAX;
	target->CompressionNone = 1;

	UTexture2D* CreatedTexture = target->ConstructTexture2D(outer, "", EObjectFlags::RF_NoFlags, 0, 0);

	CreatedTexture->CompressionSettings = TextureCompressionSettings::TC_MAX;
	CreatedTexture->MipGenSettings = TextureMipGenSettings::TMGS_NoMipmaps;
	CreatedTexture->LODGroup = TextureGroup::TEXTUREGROUP_UI;
	CreatedTexture->Filter = TextureFilter::TF_Nearest;
	CreatedTexture->CompressionNone = 1;
	return CreatedTexture;
}

Thanks for sharing your solution!