Generic Shooter: Support Thread

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@Infyy;408157

Hey, maybe someone can help me with this one.
I am currently trying to show an indicator when you killed someone (not the killfeed, just a text on the local player hud).
In the ScoreKill function of the BP_Deathmatch I am calling a function which is setting a time variable in the playerstate of the killer.
The BP_HUD takes this playerstate variable to show the HUD indicator for 5 seconds.
Everything is working fine when killing someone when being the server, but when killing someone as the client, the playerstate variable won’t be set.

The player state can be unreliable sometimes on clients and it might be being cleared from that pawn on death or client respawn. In any case, why not just tap into the already existing killfeed logic, check to see if the killer is the local player, then display your message? The killfeed system uses a series of delegates/dispatchers that you can easily tap in to.

@Kuroodo Ditory;407957

Currently the project uses an inventory system where weapons go to specific slots and only their corresponding slots.

This is a problem since I plan to have an inventory system where you can have a pistol in both first and second weapon slots.

Any plans to add a system that allows us to easily change how inventory works (just for simplicity)?

Currently I made a small and quick workaround that allows me to do this by setting the slot type of the picked up weapon equal to the slot type of the weapon I currently have equipped/am replacing. But this causes an issue;when equipping a weapon while currently using the 2nd weapon slot (secondary), it automatically switches to my primary/1st weapon slot after equipping. It will do for now, will see what I do the more I study this blueprint.

Great job making this!

This is one of those things I know I need to do and want to do and probably will do in the future, but I don’t have an ETA. Some of the inventory stuff I wanted to do was impossible to do in BP due to some replication issues with arrays at the time but I believe those are solved now. If I make any progress on this I’ll let you know directly.

@rioratt99;409763

Im having an issue with by Child Blueprints. I created a child BP off the BP_PlayerCharacter and added some custom actions for my character. When I play the Level in the Editor everything works fine. When I build my project and I host a game and spawn in the camera is all out place and all my animations are lost on my character. Anyone else have this issue and what is the fix? If I set my Gamemode Player Character back to the parent BP_PlayerCharacter everything spawns in fine. Thanks for any help.

I can’t really explain this. Perhaps your blueprint classes are not being cooked for some reason? Setting the player character class to a child class of BP_PlayerCharacter should work, and because it works in PIE, I’m pretty sure you haven’t done anything wrong. There has been a lot of issues with child blueprints though lately all over answerhub.

@demonith88;411149

I just compile it and try the test level and have this alllllll errrorrrrsssssssss

Please don’t download Generic Shooter from third party sites. If you bought it through the marketplace and are using “Create Project…”, contact Epic support as there is an issue with your launcher.