I’m creating a simple game in which, when the character dies, I want to show an actor with a widget component attached. So the way I handle loss state is just a simple overlap check with the obstacles and if it occurs, I pause the game, set the widgets text boxes to reflect the score and high score, and allow the player to play again. This all worked fine before I changed the way the widget works - it used to be a child of camera and now it’s its own entity, a component on an actor I called Endgame Billboard. So it is outside of the game view and I want to move it somewhere inside after the loss - here’s the blueprint for that:
And the weird thing is, the things after the pause work correctly, while this simple location change - even though it’s done before - doesn’t. I’ve also tried just doing Toggle Visibility instead of SetActorLocation as this would suit me as well but to no avail either. If I disconnect the edge going to pause, thus not pausing the game, the location setter works correctly.
Why is that so? The endgame billboard is allowed to tick during pause, so is the character blueprint, so I see no reason why this wouldn’t work - especially considering that the things that come after the pausing node work correctly…
Right now I have a hacky solution where the widget is always inside the cylinder, just facing the transparent side up so that the player would never see it - and it works 100% of the time. If I wanted to put it outside the cylindrical game space though - the cube (its root) will teleport but the widget component will be nowhere to be seen…