Ask Epic Anything: Devices | July 27, 2023 at 11:00 AM EDT

[Kirchuvakov]

Is there any work a round for migrating custom devices placed on level between projects?

Now, if you try to copy-paste it, or migrate a level with it, custom devices loose all links/references in editable variables. So it is almost impossible to reuse complex systems you made with a lot of objects.

[Ray-Benefield]

@natereese

Will we be able to create custom Verse events that can be bound to built in Device Functions?

I’ve personally pushed and tracked this down. It is definitely something we want to be able to do.

[anonymous_user_56aae6261 (anonymous_user_56aae626)]

@spankysully1

Question for everyone!

What have you seen a creator do with Fortnite devices that really made you think? or something you’ve seen done that wasn’t an imagined use case?

I’ve been really impressed by just how… Creative (Pun Intended) everyone has been. I found an island that played just like one of my favorite games and there are just so many others. Right now Im playing a lot in the Escape Rooms and loving every minute of it. Something unique some of our team recently played was Sky-High Sniper: Raise Your Tower by wasserbrunner. Here’s the code: 4815-5128-7815

[nathan.green]

@DRAGONSTUDIO

Hope everyone is having a great day!

I have a 2-part question that I would like to ask the entire panel.

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What’s your opinion on introducing an optional feature that would enable the
auto-translation or automated adaptation of event binding mechanics into Verse Code?

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Do you feel creators will find this type of feature beneficial? Is this something that maybe possible in the future?

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Thanks so much for taking the time to review my question!

Plus + Thank you for all you do and I hope you have an awesome day!

My suggestion would be to put it on a button rather than auto-translation, I could be misinterpreting what you mean by that but I read it as if you have the feature turned on it is always happening which would create more bugs than it’s worth in my opinion. So having a button to do the conversion for the island would at least limit how often it runs and you can control when it happens so you know what you’re converting to Verse.

I could definitely see its benefits, from making sure you get the verse syntax correct for binding to mass importing a creative game mode into UEFN and making Verse modifications. The only downside I see is that generated code tends to not look great to a user, but that’s something that’s theoretically fixable. This is something that is possible to do in the future, and seems like a useful feature.

[Ray-Benefield]

@natereese

One last minor feature request: Any chance we could get the option to edit multiple Verse Creative Devices of the same class at once? Currently you have to edit each item individually which can take a little while and is prone to user error when there are dozens on the map.

Definitely a great improvement that would be valuable. The property matrix being available now opens this up as a possibility. But definitely worth putting in a feature request for it so it can be tracked down.

[D4G_fnc (D4G)]

currently we can only attach niagara vfx to the “vfx spawner” but we can’t attach them to “the vfx creator” which has option to stick the vfx to a player body part so are you guys planning to add the option to attach niagara vfx to “the vfx creator”

[nathan.green]

@Nooberling

Are we going to get source code in Verse for devices?

Will we be able to subclass devices in the future?

Can the Color Changing Tile device have an on-damage-taken event added to it?

I’m unfortunately not able to answer your first two questions. However, we can look into an on damage taken event. Thank you for your input!

[nathan.green]

@EV_WAKA

There is currently no device that can affect server ping, right? I noticed my ping is much higher as I got closer to the memory cap. Hoping this isn’t related to devices but just the servers themselves.

Ping can be influenced by number of devices running or number of collision bodies (including device collision), but it generally takes a lot of to effect ping. The more things that are doing things each frame from will cause the server to take longer to update, which slows down how often the server can update the client, increasing the ping.

[nathan.green]

@spankysully1

Question for everyone!

What have you seen a creator do with Fortnite devices that really made you think? or something you’ve seen done that wasn’t an imagined use case?

I’ve been working on Creative for probably too long and there are a lot of maps that have made me think, so I’m going to go with the first map that really made me think. It was an early version of KKSlider’s Baseball Mania! map after playing it and looking at how it was made. I went up and started talking to my boss about how we need some better/easier way to make devices communicate to each other and thus the first channel system was born.

[nathan.green]

@PixelandPoly

Are there any plans to allow us to add multiple ‘user options - functions’ to a device at once?

For example: I had a recent project where I needed to add about 200 collectables to a tracker one by one. It would be great to be able to add all of these objects to a device function at once - and change or pick options for them.

Thanks so much for doing the AMA! They really help the whole community!

There weren’t plans for this before your message. I can see how annoying that would be, and think it’s something we should look into. Thanks for the suggestion!

[anonymous_user_56aae6261 (anonymous_user_56aae626)]

@major_gl1tch

Auto start is broken on my 1.0 , is there any short term plans for a fix or longterm to improve with more flexibility?

This sounds like a bug, can you give us any more details on how this is occurring, possibly your island code and a video so that we can research this more. You can DM Flak with the info.

[nathan.green]

@Flak

Do you expect the quick bar to be saved all the time?

There’s currently a bug where the quick bar gets cleared out when pushing changes from UEFN to its edit session which we would like to fix; but we currently have no plans to make the quick bar save between runs of Creative or UEFN.

[SightedSloth]

Thank you! I appreciate the effort! For example, the Ride function can fail for the wildlife spawner. I understand bugs come and go. Is it possible to add functionality so that we can handle a function if it fails? Even if we don’t have the exact reason, at least being able to catch the failure and implement our own workaround would help us create a better user experience.

[nathan.green]

@postboxpat

Will there ever be away to copy devices from one UEFN project to another. This is easy with verse scripts but impossible with devices.

That definitely sounds like a bug we should fix! Thank you for mentioning it. Please DM Flak with your information so we can check into it

[Flip5664 (Fﱞlip)]

Is it possible to get the paragon banner in fortnite by playing Paragon Overprime?
It’s literally the same game and i really like the paragon icon and i wish i could use it as a banner.

[mimmo_the_root]

Thk for the feedback

[nathan.green]

@wxyz

How to invert gravity, not just lower it?

It’s not possible yet, but that’s definitely something we’d like to look into!

[user_2b0500608ab9768d72e8f48a9623672b13c761da939d8d72eda7ae (Русское_имя)]

will we ever get anymore melee weapons for the melee manager device ?

[StellarLime911]

Will there be a way to change the color of water in rivers/lakes/water zones etc?

[nathan.green]

@t.tutiya

The ground of the island is occupied by creative_device!
Is there any good solution?

Usually what I do to keep them from cluttering up the map is I place them under the island terrain or in a walled off section of map that players won’t be able to get to.