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

[Tekoppar]

Love your new node .

[funkstatic]

I have 2 questions…
I posted one of them before, but I wanted to post again with an example to see if anyone can help me out.

I’m using (version 4.7 btw)
First off, I can’t seem to get the “Server Travel” to work correctly. I mentioned before the widget will appear, it’ll be animating… but as soon as the server travel is called, the animation stops, and doesn’t continue until the next level is finished loading.
Here is my test example:

My second questions deals with using the random functions that are in the plugin. No matter what configuration I attempt, whenever I make a packaged build each I run, my random outputs the same sequence of numbers.
It’s my understanding that the regular random functions in BPs have these issues in packaged builds as well, I was hoping the plugin ones would work, but in either case my output is the same random every.
Am I using correctly?

Thanks for any help, I do enjoy some of the other features in the plugin!

[SaxonRah]

for president 2016! Haha but seriously you’re amazing. I’m enjoying some of your recent additions like linear color array <3

@;319528

My second questions deals with using the random functions that are in the plugin. No matter what configuration I attempt, whenever I make a packaged build each I run, my random outputs the same sequence of numbers.
It’s my understanding that the regular random functions in BPs have these issues in packaged builds as well, I was hoping the plugin ones would work, but in either case my output is the same random every.
Am I using correctly?

Yeah, I have not used them in a long while but that looks correct. Unfortunately the official rand functions and my functions both package same sequence. You can change by creating a new seed, generator and distribution after a certain number of random numbers or some other way of changing the system to create a new sequence. by something like modifying the seed by some algorithm and redistributing or your own solution ^_^. remember new distributions are fairly cheap but new engine/generators are fairly costly so only do that if absolutely necessary. If doesn’t work let me know i’ll be happy to help you.

[funkstatic]

@SaxonRah;319649

Yeah, I have not used them in a long while but that looks correct. Unfortunately the official rand functions and my functions both package same sequence. You can change by creating a new seed, generator and distribution after a certain number of random numbers or some other way of changing the system to create a new sequence. by something like modifying the seed by some algorithm and redistributing or your own solution ^_^. remember new distributions are fairly cheap but new engine/generators are fairly costly so only do that if absolutely necessary. If doesn’t work let me know i’ll be happy to help you.

Hmm, so you’re saying I should swap my functions over to random from seed… then find other methods to generate new seed numbers as needed?
It’s a shame that in editor the regular random functions work fine, but as soon as you make a packaged build, random becomes 100% predicitable.

Example: I have a simple name generator that takes one piece from a first name array and another from a last name array. Running from editor it’s always random output, but a packaged build, 100% of the it gives me exactly the same output of generated names.

[Rama]

@Tekoppar;318781

Oh I’ve got an awesome idea for what you might be able to use that node + another one of your nodes for.

Referring to Victory BP node:

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

@Tekoppar;319473

Love your new node .

Wow That is truly impressive!** Great work Tekoppar and thanks for sharing!** (click on the link to see great video!)

[QUOTE=SaxonRah;319649]
for president 2016! Haha but seriously you're amazing. I'm enjoying some of your recent additions like linear color array <3

[/QUOTE]


So nice to hear from you SaxonRah, and thanks for those randomization nodes!

:)

[Rama]

Get Console Variable Value, Int / Float Supported!

Dear Community,

Here are two new nodes that let you get the value of any config variables that you might also want to adjust from the console / via “Run Console Command”

If you look in DefaultEngine.ini, any of the int/float variables there can be retrieved by these nodes!

Many thanks to for contributing these nodes!

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https://wiki.unrealengine.com/File:VictoryPlugin.zip

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Enjoy!

[John_Alcatraz]

Thanks a lot for the console output node and thanks for including it

@;318749

Dear Community,

I’ve created a new node that allows you to save a Linear Color array to disk as a PNG image!

Could you also make node being able to save the image not only to a PNG but also to a Texture2D which can be used in the game? :rolleyes:

[SaxonRah]

@John Alcatraz;320806

Thanks a lot for the console output node and thanks for including it

Could you also make node being able to save the image not only to a PNG but also to a Texture2D which can be used in the game? :rolleyes:

I’ll mess around with that today, ill see what i can come up with.

@;320462

Hmm, so you’re saying I should swap my functions over to random from seed… then find other methods to generate new seed numbers as needed?
It’s a shame that in editor the regular random functions work fine, but as soon as you make a packaged build, random becomes 100% predicitable.

Example: I have a simple name generator that takes one piece from a first name array and another from a last name array. Running from editor it’s always random output, but a packaged build, 100% of the it gives me exactly the same output of generated names.

What you should do actually is write a function that returns the date and then use that to seed your random number generator way you should get random numbers no matter what because the seed is always changing.

[The_Shane]

Woo, I know there’s a C++ plugin for Voronoi that uses Fortune’s Algorithm, but Calcs Closest Point to Source Point + SavePixels(if I want an image) made it soo easy to build a component for Voronoi diagrams!

[ywang]

Hi,

Does the latest version now work on 4.7 or 4.8?

Thank you

[Hevedy]

@ywang;321490

Hi,

Does the latest version now work on 4.7 or 4.8?

Thank you

Work with 4.8 without problems.

[SaxonRah]

@;319528

Stuff.

You can use to get current utc.

//Capture the current stamp and format it to YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS.mmm.
FDateTime CurrentDateAndTime = FDateTime::UtcNow();

is a Formatted Stamp in an FString (also other examples for CrrentDateAndTime)

//Capture the stamp.
FString FormattedTimeStamp = FString::Printf(TEXT(“%04i-%02i-%02i %02i:%02i:%02i.%03i”), CurrentDateAndTime.GetYear(), CurrentDateAndTime.GetMonth(), CurrentDateAndTime.GetDay(), CurrentDateAndTime.GetHour(), CurrentDateAndTime.GetMinute(), CurrentDateAndTime.GetSecond(), CurrentDateAndTime.GetMillisecond());

stuff should be of use to help get random values from the generators that are not ‘baked in’

[anonymous_user_787f7f36]

Hello,

I am interested in better understanding how the “Visibility Get Rendered Actors” node works. I am attempting to use it to get the actors seen by my camera, but it only outputs emitter actors, whereas I am most interested in static mesh actors. Am I misunderstanding the intended usage of node? If question should be asked in a different place, please let me know. Thanks!

[RoadStar]

Hi, !

First of , you’re my star! You doing really priceless job!

Can I ask you only one thing? Could tell me please, why I am getting error? Are you compiling from different source?

Thank you in advance!

[RoadStar]

It’s quite strange for me, especially because Unreal Engine code contains similar code.

For example, KismetArrayLibrary.h:

(bool)RESULT_PARAM = (FoundIndex >= 0);

[KWS]

Thank you so much for Plugin!

[anonymous_user_a3f4791c]

Hi,
your blueprint library is fantastic.
But i have a build error when packaging project for shipping for win64.

 LINK : fatal error LNK1181: cannot open input file 'D:\Epic Games\4.8\Engine\Plugins\Editor\VictoryPlugin\Binaries\Win64\UE4-VictoryBPLibrary-Win64-Shipping.lib'

can you help me please?
Thanks in advance

[bzxo]

@;318650

Can you explain / show a pic of exactly which settings you would like exposed to runtime BP modification?

Of course

[Rama]

@John Alcatraz;320806

Thanks a lot for the console output node and thanks for including it

Could you also make node being able to save the image not only to a PNG but also to a Texture2D which can be used in the game? :rolleyes:

I will add that to my list

@The_Shane;321387

Woo, I know there’s a C++ plugin for Voronoi that uses Fortune’s Algorithm, but Calcs Closest Point to Source Point + SavePixels(if I want an image) made it soo easy to build a component for Voronoi diagrams!

That’s awesome The_Shane! Thanks for sharing!

@LuxFlux;322711

Hello ,

I am interested in better understanding how the “Visibility Get Rendered Actors” node works. I am attempting to use it to get the actors seen by my camera, but it only outputs emitter actors, whereas I am most interested in static mesh actors. Am I misunderstanding the intended usage of node? If question should be asked in a different place, please let me know. Thanks!

Added to my list of things to investigate/explain further at my next opportunity

@RoadStar;323130

Hi, !

First of , you’re my star! You doing really priceless job!

Can I ask you only one thing? Could tell me please, why I am getting error? Are you compiling from different source?

Thank you in advance!

Hee hee!

Are you sure you are compiling for 4.8? Because I believe RESULT_PARAM is new in 4.8.

Checkout KismetArrayLibrary.cpp in 4.7 vs 4.8 and try both ways and let me know!

Make sure you delete your intermediate and sln and suo and sdf and switch engine version to 4.8 from your .uproject.

It should then work

@KWS;323326

Thank you so much for Plugin!

You’re welcome!

Welcome to the forums KWS!

@;323419

Of course

I will investigate exposing the EQ settings soon as I can

@KingDragonX;323392

Hi ,
your blueprint library is fantastic.
But i have a build error when packaging project for shipping for win64.

 LINK : fatal error LNK1181: cannot open input file 'D:\Epic Games\4.8\Engine\Plugins\Editor\VictoryPlugin\Binaries\Win64\UE4-VictoryBPLibrary-Win64-Shipping.lib'

can you help me please?
Thanks in advance

It looks like you put my plugin at the Engine level? Engine\Plugins?

Please ensure that you include my plugin only at the project level, and let me know if that goes better!

**Summary**

Lovely to hear from you !

:)

[RoadStar]

@;323989

Hee hee!

Are you sure you are compiling for 4.8? Because I believe RESULT_PARAM is new in 4.8.

Checkout KismetArrayLibrary.cpp in 4.7 vs 4.8 and try both ways and let me know!

Make sure you delete your intermediate and sln and suo and sdf and switch engine version to 4.8 from your .uproject.

It should then work

Thank you, dear!

For advise and for your plugin!

It’s been my bad, not switched engine version for .uproject! I definitely shall sleep more

You’re the best!