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

Rama · October 22, 2016, 8:36pm

Launch any program from your computer’s OS from UE4 Blueprints, with Parameters!

Dear Community

True to my wish of empowering of you in Blueprints via my Victory BP library, these new nodes are VERY powerful!

With these nodes you can launch other applications of your choosing, with commandline arguments, right from BP!

You can even choose whether the application you launch should be detached and/or hidden.

Detached ~ Your UE4 app can close itself if Detached is true. If false, your UE4 app considers itself the parent of the created process and will wait until that child process finishes running before closing itself.
Hidden ~ If hidden, the process will run silently and undetectable to the user. Useful for background tasks that are not meant to distract from gameplay.

Software Design Consideration
Please use Detached + Hidden with consideration for your end user’s computer resources, as they wont be able to close the app if it is detached AND hidden.

I could not locate a way to end a process via process ID, only handles which are not BP exposeable. If people enjoy these nodes and would like it, I can make a BlueprintType exposed Process handle to enable additional features. So let me know if you are using these nodes!


**Get Application Name**

When you create a process through my BP node, you should save the resulting ProcessID as a var so that you can then verify it was created, and you can use  node to get the name back from the OS.

Is Application Running

If you launch a process and want to wait to perform other logic until you know that process has finished running, you can save to variable the Process ID from CreateProcess and use node to find out when your other app finishes running!


**More Power For You in BP**

Victory to You!

♥

New Download for UE4 4.13 (55mb, Media Fire)

Please note I now use the UE4 Marketplace C++ Plugin Standard when packaging Victory plugin for you

Win64 Development
Win64 Shipping <~~~~~~ NEW!
Win32 Development
Win32 Shipping
HTML5 Development
HTML5 Shipping <~~~~~~ NEW!

Please see my instructions for Packaging UE4 Plugins With Your Game.


**Prior Engine Versions**

**4.12: **http://www.mediafire.com/download/g441k2815r5b045/VictoryPlugin12.zip

**4.11: **http://www.mediafire.com/download/jp91b9atphm2obt/VictoryPlugin11.zip

Donations can be sent to me via:

Vahid · October 26, 2016, 10:07am

Hi, I want to know is it possible to save Downloaded texture with Download Image node to a file ?

Rama · October 27, 2016, 2:08am

Count Occurances Of Substring and Seconds to hh::mm:ss with zero trimming!

Dear Community,

I have two new nodes for you today!

Count Occurances of Substring

handy node lets you easily count how many times a single character or a substring appears in another string!

Case sensitivity is optional!


**Seconds to hh:mm:ss**

Expected input is a large number of seconds representing several minutes and/or hours :)

 node's primary reason for existing is that I had large  intervals in seconds and wanted to trim extra 0's out of the normal output of 00:00:00.00 for the FTimespan conversion and end up with times like these:



```


02:12     00:01    00:99   60:30     01:00:05


```



instead of:



```


00:02:12.00     00:00:01.00       etc :)


```


 trimming of 0's is kept **optional** in case you want to compare outputs or do the parsing yourself :)

Here is the code for  second node!

Please note my use of **ReplaceInline** wherever possible to avoid copying the entire string in case it is large, **memory efficiency** yay!



```


FString UVictoryBPFunctionLibrary::Victory_SecondsToHoursMinutesSeconds(float Seconds, bool TrimZeroes)
{
	FString Str = FTimespan(0, 0, Seconds).ToString();
	
	if(TrimZeroes)
	{
		FString Left,Right;
		Str.Split(TEXT("."),&Left,&Right);
		Str = Left;
		Str.**ReplaceInline**(TEXT("00:00"), TEXT("00"));
		
		//Str Count!  
		int32 Count = CountOccurrancesOfSubString(Str,":");
		   
		//Remove Empty Hours
		if(Count >= 2)
		{
			Str.**ReplaceInline**(TEXT("00:"), TEXT(""));
		} 
	}
 
	return Str;
}


```

New Download for UE4 4.13 (55mb, Media Fire)

Please note I now use the UE4 Marketplace C++ Plugin Standard when packaging Victory plugin for you

Win64 Development
Win64 Shipping <~~~~~~ NEW!
Win32 Development
Win32 Shipping
HTML5 Development
HTML5 Shipping <~~~~~~ NEW!

Please see my instructions for Packaging UE4 Plugins With Your Game.


**Prior Engine Versions**

**4.12: **http://www.mediafire.com/download/g441k2815r5b045/VictoryPlugin12.zip

**4.11: **http://www.mediafire.com/download/jp91b9atphm2obt/VictoryPlugin11.zip

Donations can be sent to me via:

Rama · October 28, 2016, 7:38am

I will look into that as soon as I can, in meantime check out my next post for great GPU fun!

Rama · October 28, 2016, 7:41am

GPU Info For You! Now you can know exact brand and driver version of your end user’s graphics card!

Dear Community,

I have a new release for you!

I am providing you with new BP nodes to obtain essential information about your end user’s graphics card!

You can use the nodes I am providing to know the vendor (like NVIDIA or AMD), brand (type of card), driver version (what drivers has the user downloaded?) and the date of the those drivers!

So now you can know whether to recommend that a user updates their drivers to newer versions!

You can also provide brand-specific graphics functionality by knowing what type of card the user has!


**New Download for UE4 4.13 (55mb, Media Fire)**
https://www.mediafire.com/?ieovbd5l9d7yub2

♥ Please note I now use the UE4 Marketplace C++ Plugin Standard when packaging Victory plugin for you ♥

1. Win64 Development
2. Win64 Shipping  **&lt;~~~~~~ NEW!**
3. Win32 Development
4. Win32 Shipping
4. HTML5 Development
5. HTML5 Shipping **&lt;~~~~~~ NEW!**

Please see my instructions for [Packaging UE4 Plugins With Your Game](https://forums.unrealengine.com/showthread.php?3851-(39)--s-Extra-Blueprint-Nodes-for-You-as-a-Plugin-No-C-Required!&p=476476&viewfull=1#post476476).

Prior Engine Versions

**4.12: **VictoryPlugin12

**4.11: **VictoryPlugin11


**Donations can be sent to me via:**
http://lightningfitness.org/donate/

♥

Vahid · October 28, 2016, 10:56am

Thanks
I found and helped a lot, I could use code with your code

Voradori · October 31, 2016, 6:40pm

Hey , I’m stuck with some gamestate.
I can’t use my custom BP gamestate class - gamemode doesn’t react to it’s changing when VictoryPlugin is active and always returns default GameState

i’ve found some info that you added custom gamemode class at some (link), maybe it’s related somehow?

But even so, I can’t find your VictoryGameMode class in the plugin’s content either.

UPDATE
Sorry, updating Plugin to the latest solved the

anonymous_user_ba0bd1a3 · November 4, 2016, 3:50am

Hi,

I am just wondering if there is a function to get a image from url and set it to the texture. I tried to use “Victory Load Texture 2D from File” but function worked for local files. Looking forward to hearing from you. Thanks.

Rama · November 9, 2016, 9:30pm

Hi there bingxu! Welcome the UE4 Forums!

If you are in BP and you do a search for “image url” you will find that Epic has a BP node to do exactly what you are asking

By do a search I mean right click in any BP graph and type into the search filter thingie

I am glad you got it sorted out!

Rama · November 9, 2016, 9:33pm

Dear Community,

I’ve just release 2 new nodes that help you to do MD5 file verification on your downloaded files!

What are MD5 Files For?

MD5 hashes of files enable you to verify the data integrity of files that your users download from the internet.

You generate your own MD5 from original file, and then distribute the MD5 file (1kb in size) to users along with the much larger download file.

After your user downloads your game’s patch files or other important files, then you can use my BP nodes to compare the downloaded file hash with the md5 you gave to the user, to verify the file’s integrity!
**
The result:**

With my BP nodes you have a way to check actual data integrity of a downloaded file, not just whether the and file size match, gives you binary data integrity verification powers


**New Download for UE4 4.13 (55mb, Media Fire)**
https://www.mediafire.com/?ieovbd5l9d7yub2

♥ Please note I now use the UE4 Marketplace C++ Plugin Standard when packaging Victory plugin for you ♥

1. Win64 Development
2. Win64 Shipping  **&lt;~~~~~~ NEW!**
3. Win32 Development
4. Win32 Shipping
4. HTML5 Development
5. HTML5 Shipping **&lt;~~~~~~ NEW!**

Please see my instructions for [Packaging UE4 Plugins With Your Game](https://forums.unrealengine.com/showthread.php?3851-(39)--s-Extra-Blueprint-Nodes-for-You-as-a-Plugin-No-C-Required!&p=476476&viewfull=1#post476476).

Prior Engine Versions

**4.12: **VictoryPlugin12

**4.11: **VictoryPlugin11


**Donations can be sent to me via:**
http://lightningfitness.org/donate/

♥

Zireael07 · November 10, 2016, 8:16am

Is the blueprint functions only or the plugin? Does the plugin contain blueprint functions? Sorry, I’m having a hard wrapping my head around plugins, very new to UE4.

Cameron_Abt · November 15, 2016, 9:30pm

,

I can’t seem to find where I got your VictoryEdEngine code from, but I’ve just updated it for 4.14.0 and would like to share a few changes with you to get rid of some deprecation warnings and 2 errors in case you’d like to pull into the sourced version:

/campmdabt/UnrealEngine/commit/8db1c32eeece99356f8ecaaf06452f8763be2f5f

Thanks again for you do.

Rama · November 15, 2016, 11:20pm

Thank you for sharing these updates [MENTION=277851]Cameron Abt[/MENTION] !

Rama · November 15, 2016, 11:21pm

Victory Plugin 4.14

Dear Community,

My Victory Plugin is now on 4.14!

Enjoooy!


**New Download for UE4 4.14 (57mb, Media Fire)**
https://www.mediafire.com/?ieovbd5l9d7yub2

♥ Please note I now use the UE4 Marketplace C++ Plugin Standard when packaging Victory plugin for you ♥

1. Win64 Development
2. Win64 Shipping  **&lt;~~~~~~ NEW!**
3. Win32 Development
4. Win32 Shipping
4. HTML5 Development
5. HTML5 Shipping **&lt;~~~~~~ NEW!**

Please see my instructions for [Packaging UE4 Plugins With Your Game](https://forums.unrealengine.com/showthread.php?3851-(39)--s-Extra-Blueprint-Nodes-for-You-as-a-Plugin-No-C-Required!&p=476476&viewfull=1#post476476).

Prior Engine Versions

**4.12: **VictoryPlugin12

**4.11: **VictoryPlugin11

**4.13: **VictoryPlugin13


**Donations can be sent to me via:**
http://lightningfitness.org/donate/

♥

Fexception · November 16, 2016, 4:42pm

The link seems to be broken. I was actually going to ask if he was going to update it to 4.14, as I’ve only seen it to 4.12 :).

Cameron_Abt · November 16, 2016, 8:50pm

After looking back at my forked Unreal repository, it says it’s private, though I’m not sure if that means completely private or mostly private but accessible to those who can access the Unreal Engine main Git page.

Are you able to access the Unreal Engine GitHub page hereor does it give you a 404 error?

teak421 · November 16, 2016, 10:37pm

,

Could you please update your Github repo to 4.14? Thanks!

teak

Rama · November 16, 2016, 11:35pm

I’ve now updated github! Lovely to hear from you @teak421 !

I did a 4.13 update, somewhereeeeeee I will get a 4.14 version soon as I can and post location in bold lettering with a Rainbow Outline thanks to 4.14

<RainbowOutline>
Here is My Vertex Snap / Instanced Static Mesh Editor Plugin for 4.13!

is a full project, please set the ISM class to be VictoryISM from my Victory Plugin in Project Settings
</RainbowOutline>

4.14 is on the way

I get to it just fine, though I have a UE4-linked github so that might help

Thank you again for the sharing!

Rama · November 17, 2016, 12:45am

Victory Ed Engine 4.14

Dear Community,

For those of you who were not aware, I have a Vertex Snap Editor Plugin that makes offers several different visual representations of vertices for static meshes so you can easily line things up exactly in the level editor!

I also offer a Instanced Static Mesh Editor where you can merge static mesh actors directly in the level viewport, and also unmerge at any if you decide you want to adjust your chosen formation!

of these features work with the UE4 undo redo system.

Victory Ed Engine Plugin uses my Victory Plugin for the VictoryISM class.

I am including the entire 4.14 project that shows how everything has to be setup, including DefaultEngine.ini

Victory Ed Engine Project 4.14

Victory Ed Engine Project 4.13

Enjoy!

anonymous_user_ba0bd1a3 · November 18, 2016, 1:19am

Thanks for your reply . I only found one “Download Image” node from blueprint. Is that you mentioned here? Thanks.