ADK 215 now available

[BlueFreakQ]

Version 215 of the Ark Dev kit has been released. The launcher update is not live yet, but the manual download files are available immediately:

DevKit 215 content: Here

Updated binaries on Github: Here

v215

Notable Features :

• • bUseBlueprintAnimNotifyCustomEvent - set that on PrimalCharacter, you’ll get:
    UFUNCTION(BlueprintImplementableEvent, Category = AnimNotify)
    void BlueprintAnimNotifyCustomEvent(FName CustomEventName, class USkeletalMeshComponent* MeshComp, class UAnimSequenceBase * Animation, const class UAnimNotify* AnimNotifyObject); So you can specially handle any animation events in a character blueprint.
• • The capability to add/modify & handle contextual “use” menu entries on characters and structures entirely through blueprint!

Additionally, a new item has been created as an example modified structure Blueprint to indicate how to use the new Blueprintable “Use Menu Options”:

Blueprint’/Game/PrimalEarth/Structures/StorageBox_Small_BlueprintUseTest.StorageBox_Small_BlueprintUseTest’

Some more details from Drake:

The first thing if you want to handle Use options within Blueprint, is to set “Blueprint Multi Use Entries” = true on your object.

Then specifically as an example, this modified Storage Box adds a new Use menu option for “Increment Number #” to that box, which each time you activate it, increases a number that is printed to the Use String. That number is networked from the server, and saved into the savedata of that object. The relevant overriden Blueprint functions in that object, visible in its blueprint graph, are:

Implementable Functions:
“BP Get Multi Use Entries”: This is the most important function, where you are given a list of “Multi Use Entries” (from native code), and you can parse these, add to them, remove from them, or change their “Use Index” values to new numbers so that you can manually handle them in Blueprint. Any new Multi Use Entries that you add should be given unique Use Index values for your Object, so probably best to start above 5000 (they only need to be unique within an object, so you don’t have to worry about conflicting with other Mods). It’s the unique Use Index codes that will allow you to handle the Use action in the “BP Try Multi Use” function (which is server-side) and the “Event BP Client Do Multi Use”, which is client-side on the client that used the object (less common, primarily just for any UI feedback local to that client, such as opening a UI – most of the time if you want to do something you’ll do it specifically on the server). Make sure to pass your modified array out from the function, as I do. Only entries returned on the array will be shown for the client to actually use! You can think of this function as getting a list of “what are things a specific client can use on this object” – the client will see this returned on its user interface. Note that this function is run on both client AND server, and is assumed that both client and server have the necessary synchronized state to return the same “Multi Use Entries” values, which you can achieve by Replicating variables as necessary for custom state logic.
“BPTry Multi Use”: This is where you’ll handle the “Use Index” values for a specific client, on the server. You can think of this function as actually DOING the use action for a specific “Use Index”, on the server specifically. If you return “True” from this function for a specific “Use Index”, then the client will get a “Event BP Client Do Multi Use” fired locally on the Using client, as a sort of client-side “confirmation” that the “Use” action was successful (optional, you don’t have to return true and thus you can just do all necessary response to the Use on the server if you want).

Implementable Event (in the Event Graph):
“Event BP Client Do Multi Use”
This event is triggered on the client with the corresponding “Client Use Index”, which you can then handle on the client for any local feedback specifically onto the person/client who used that.

Note that you could also manually remove existing Use entries by searching the “Multi Use Entries” array within the “BP Get Multi Use Entries” function for specific “Use Index” number codes (you can debug Blueprint to find out relevant number codes), and either removing those entries or changing their number codes to something that you’ll handle in blueprint.

Anyhow, it’s hopefully fairly self explanatory when you examine that Storage Box’s blueprint in detail – its implementation of those 2 functions and Event in its blueprint – and of course the exact same functionality works on PrimalCharacters as well. Combining this with manipulation of their InventoryComponent and CharacterStatusComponent, as well as modifiction of replicated & saveable variables, and existing editable variables (which can if necessary be replicated by mirroring them as replicated variables), you can do just about anything with the “Use” system in blueprint now!

Have fun and happy modding, more things are coming including many more Game Functions wrapped into Blueprint!

-Drake

[CreativeHD]

Thanks guys!!!

[ThunderAcoustic]

Links are broken for me.

DevKit 215 content: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B0d9jibPVqYzU2ptTUJvTWVhVWM/view?usp=sharing
Updated binaries on Github: https://github.com/StudioWildcard1/Ark-Dev-Kit

[Kenturrac]

They are working fine. You need to have a GitHub account and this needs to be connected to your epic account. You can find more details about that in the Epic forum.

[ThunderAcoustic]

Nope, that isn’t the issue. They are just linking to the word “here” for me rather than the URL. I found the links in the page source code. I’m using Opera.

[drg411]

well since the last update dev kit dont start it crashes at startup …

[ThunderAcoustic]

Doesn’t crash for me. Maybe a corrupt file got into yours or something. Maybe you can figure something out from the error logs.

[drg411]

its a error in kernel.dll and something with ue4shadercompiler.dll

[hogscraper]

Both links are broken for me as well. I downloaded both files earlier today then noticed my adk version was 214.4 so maybe they uploaded the wrong files?

[ComplexMinded]

@ All, use the links posted by ThunderAcoustic. They are legit

[anonymous_user_82409c8d]

214.4 still isn’t on the Epic Launcher wtf guys

Clearly you have ZERO control over how often you can update the Epic Launcher version so I strongly suggest you pull it from: Workshop
It is by no means the best way to mod ARK.

What a complete cluster fk.

[Sench]

The links in the opening post literally lead to “here” as a web address.

[anonymous_user_a85c5d9f]

DevKit 215 content: <a href=“https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B0d9jibPVqYzU2ptTUJvTWVhVWM/view?usp=sharing” target=“_blank”></a><a href=“http://Here” target=“_blank”>Here</a><br>
<br>
Updated binaries on Github: <a href=“https://github.com/StudioWildcard1/Ark-Dev-Kit” target=“_blank”></a><a href=“http://Here” target=“_blank”>Here</a><br

There is a error in the HTML. But the actual link is in there or you could use ThunderAcoustic’s links.

[hogscraper]

EDITED:
Issue seems to be solved. Uploader wasn’t actually uploading anything but an empty mod for some reason. Restarted my comp, made sure everything was still linked properly and it just started working…

[anonymous_user_82409c8d]

DevKit 215.2 now available on the Epic Launcher.

[drg411]

the update brokes the rock textures…

[anon16009780]

bluefreakq, Not fully following this but does this mean I can now say throw 100 wood into the storage and trigger an event to so there is 100 wood give you 100 stone type thing now?

[thomassanford01]

Well this version hosed my mod. All was working great until I got this update. I added a few items to a structure inventory nothing I haven’t done tons of times. Now it appears it isn’t cooking correctly. None of the engrams show up in game it’s like it isn’t even there. yes, I checked to make sure it’s active and the file size is correct. It was crashing to desktop, so I took the new primaldata_BP and remade that. Now it loads just no mod. It works fine in the editor BTW.
Any ideas?
Thanks,
Tom

[Rarp7]

Do you guys know if it’s possible to trigger native multi use items such as accessing inventory of a dino?

[M1k3_C]

@thomassanford01;387757

Well this version hosed my mod. All was working great until I got this update. I added a few items to a structure inventory nothing I haven’t done tons of times. Now it appears it isn’t cooking correctly. None of the engrams show up in game it’s like it isn’t even there. yes, I checked to make sure it’s active and the file size is correct. It was crashing to desktop, so I took the new primaldata_BP and remade that. Now it loads just no mod. It works fine in the editor BTW.
Any ideas?
Thanks,
Tom

What is the inventory for?