Even in an event, my delay block doesn't seem to work. Am I doing it wrong?

[DarthProg07]

Hi Guys!
I am trying to see what i am printing on screen, but it doesn’t work. Any delay i put in printing box doesn’t work. Everything happen in a flash of light. i tried to place a specific DELAY block to
slow things down but…to no avail. Do i have a corrupted Unreal file maybe or am i doing something wrong here?

[chrudimer]

Hi, the for loop always executes in a single frame, you cannot have Delays in there. You could create a delayed for loop manually, by using a timer and keeping track of the current iteration index to terminate the timer when you have reached to last index.

EDIT: In this thread here are some solutions, creating a copy of the for loop macro and modifying it: How do I add a delay to each iteration of a foreachloop?

[DarthProg07]

@chrudimer

Hi, the for loop always executes in a single frame, you cannot have Delays in there. You could create a delayed for loop manually, by using a timer and keeping track of the current iteration index to terminate the timer when you have reached to last index.

If you want to use this functionality in several places, it may be cleaner to create e.g. a component for it that you can add to any actor. Then you could have the timer and some event dispatcher in the component and could bind to that event dispatcher from your actor that needs such a delayed for loop.

Thank you very much. That explains it. It is a bit perplexing that there is no way to do this simply with a block that would that into account. Like a block who would say ‘Delay in Fnc’ for exemple, with the necessary pins (for exemple; delay in sec OR nb of iteration Or nb of action) something like that; i think that would be useful… Oh well, thanks for your precious time @chrudimer !