Generic Shooter: Support Thread

[anonymous_user_00e67e7d]

Actually I found the functions so just a bit of re-engineering I think

[ATrustedDoctor]

@DirkAhoy;473051

Actually I found the functions so just a bit of re-engineering I think

have you checked out Slack ?

[anonymous_user_00e67e7d]

Hi - I tried the slack page but I need to sign in - apparently I need an invite from the team? I did create an account myself but this just creates a new team not a login I join that page with - I did figure out the anims in the end but would like to join that channel on slack as I really like the generic shooter code alot
cheers

[phantom530]

How is the performance of the networking?

[richardboegli]

Is it better to post questions in Slack or thread in Epic’s forum?

[Burnz]

I enabled Steam in the project, however in the standalone build i am getting this error :

[2016.02.13-07.38.34:263] 1]LogOnline:Warning: STEAM: Can’t start an online game for session (Game) that hasn’t been created
[2016.02.13-07.38.34:264] 1]r.SetRes = “1280x800w”
[2016.02.13-07.38.34:264] 1]LogOnline:Warning: STEAM: Can’t destroy a null online session (Game)
[2016.02.13-07.38.45:952][446]LogPackageName: SearchForPackageOnDisk took 0.024s to resolve ValAllar.umap.
[2016.02.13-07.38.45:974][446]LogPackageName: SearchForPackageOnDisk took 0.021s to resolve ValAllar.umap.
[2016.02.13-07.38.45:974][446]LogNet: Browse: /Game/GenericShooter/Maps/ValAllar?game=DM?listen?RoundTime=10?KillLimit=10?ff=0
[2016.02.13-07.38.45:974][446]LogLoad: LoadMap: /Game/GenericShooter/Maps/ValAllar?game=DM?listen?RoundTime=10?KillLimit=10?ff=0

@Holty007;473027

Are you using spacewars SteamDevid?

No, i actually have an unique SteamID setup already - so the game also already downloads through Steam. Everything runs fine except for the server list in online-mode - Steam integration also looks good on the client, ingame overlay is there. According to that log message it even tries to start an online game - just getting this session error and the game does not show up in the server list.

[richardboegli]

I’d like to know what is the best way to do this: Character pawn - Spectator like motion and / or Descent / full flight style but with player hitbox

[anonymous_user_807151eb]

I bought it just some minutes ago, just started and everything works ! Nice !
Now i will need to use some real textures and add a normal weapon and sound. Don’t know how because its the first time i use UE4, no idea about anything in this UE4 but yeah i hope best for myself.

If here is any german person, pls i need your help. Not doing everything for me but explaining a little.

[OpticalIllusions]

Will this kit eventually support custom class making before the match starts and picking up weapons from killed enemies?
Would be a great feature would love to see it, other than that its a great kit.

[richardboegli]

Renaming Project Folder breaks networking.

Just going to leave that there for future reference.

I renamed the project folder to match the actual new project name as I was just originally using a working title.

It ran fine in PIE and also packaged fine.

When I used host game, it failed and dropped back to main menu.

[anonymous_user_3834f5fe]

@HaunDeD;474698

I bought it just some minutes ago, just started and everything works ! Nice !
Now i will need to use some real textures and add a normal weapon and sound. Don’t know how because its the first time i use UE4, no idea about anything in this UE4 but yeah i hope best for myself.

If here is any german person, pls i need your help. Not doing everything for me but explaining a little.

Hi, here you can find what you are looking for. has prepared several tutorials. Good luck.
expample:

Generic Shooter: Weapon Blueprint Overview And Addition Tutorial

Generic Shooter - Adding A Custom Character

[richardboegli]

Has anyone tried to compile GS to run in HTML5?

[Shirk]

How might I set up team specific player functions and character meshes? I would like one team to behave different from the other, as well as look different. I dont want the Customize Character options to have an effect on the one teams appearance, but I dont mind it for the other.

[Control]

Hello, so I need to set up time between shots when the weapon is not automatic so like I can’t click like crazy and pistol will fire always.Setting up Winding down time seems as a good start but my weapon losts its ADS position when I have wind down time more than 0. And also how can I join GS slack community?

[richardboegli]

@Control;477425

And also how can I join GS slack community?

Click here to join GS Slack

[ATrustedDoctor]

In the Blueprint there is a config timing witch has wind up and wind down time

Not sure if this is what u want but good luck anyways.

[Allar]

@-MelVin-;467030

Hi ,

1 What rig did you use to make your animations, does it have added controllers for animating, and is it available

I’m using Epic’s skeleton, provided with the ART tools. I’m not much of an animator so I don’t really know anything about any form of advanced rigging.

@TK-Bear;468195

The sound queues for saying things like Headshot are only heard by the server. When I play as a client I do not hear them when performing a headshot. Has anyone else experience this issue?

@Multipainkiller;468491

Similarly here. No sound cue on the client when headshot.

This is a known issue. I’m hoping that Epic will expose a certain set of functions to BP to make broadcasting this info lightweight and much easier instead of creating a slower system in BP, but if it isn’t exposed soon, I’ll probably just set up a similar system in BP.

@Multipainkiller;468498

Hello .
I have a request: Pleace, can You consider to add the generic melee weapon, generic throwables and generic animation for jumping/prone to Generic Shooter. It is on Trello from loong time. Thank you in advance Regards.

Aye, its something I’d like to do, but need more time in the day.

@;468745

Anyone figure out where all the sound settings / video / any settings for the template actually are?

The default volume settings are all at 100% and way too loud, i would like to set new 50% defaults for each build and change the default graphics settings to fullscreen instead of windowed.

Would also like to turn off fall damage and adjust the damages of upper body shots and headshots.

Default settings are in GenericShooter\BlueprintLogic\Engine, you’ll see a few structs you can edit. For them to take effect though, after a change you should close the editor and delete your project’s ‘Saved’ folder as while you’ve changed the defaults, your local copy has its own settings saved.

@Control;469282

Please where can I make that when I move my mouse the character wont move. Like in the examples when you are just looking around and the pawn is staying at its place.

I’m not entirely sure what you mean by this. What examples?

@Gbr;470244

@:

Found out that when you set a Looping MuzzleFlash Particle System Component to BP_BaseWeapon, with the bLoopedMuzzleFlash set to “true” and without auto-reload on last shot, it keeps playing the Effect even after running out of bullets. It only deactivates when you release the Fire Input and calls Stop Fire.

This has been fixed in the latest patch. Thank you.

@Holty007;472502

Hey Everyone.

Couple of quistion,
Q1 The Pick ups don’t re-spawn is there a way to set this up?

Easiest way is to set up a timer on the server to respawn them.

@richardboegli;472959

BUG: Tried to use a custom weapon in default weapon slot.

I changed it in the BP_PlayerCharacter.

It worked fine in the PIE editor, but when I packaged the game, it defaulted to BP_Rifle

This sounds like a reoccurring bug with the Engine where child blueprints reset themselves to their parent defaults. I still don’t know a proper fix for this. I recommend bugging Epic support staff on Answerhub, a lot of people across many projects are experiencing this.

@richardboegli;473476

Is it better to post questions in Slack or thread in Epic’s forum?

I’m a bit slower to answer questions here on the forums, but I generally get around to all of them. Slack is faster but I may miss them.

@OpticalIllusions;475149

Will this kit eventually support custom class making before the match starts and picking up weapons from killed enemies?
Would be a great feature would love to see it, other than that its a great kit.

I’d like to do this in the future, all a matter of time (or lack thereof).

@richardboegli;475217

Renaming Project Folder breaks networking.

Hmm.

@Burnz;473999

I enabled Steam in the project, however in the standalone build i am getting this error :

[2016.02.13-07.38.34:263] 1]LogOnline:Warning: STEAM: Can’t start an online game for session (Game) that hasn’t been created
[2016.02.13-07.38.34:264] 1]r.SetRes = “1280x800w”
[2016.02.13-07.38.34:264] 1]LogOnline:Warning: STEAM: Can’t destroy a null online session (Game)
[2016.02.13-07.38.45:952][446]LogPackageName: SearchForPackageOnDisk took 0.024s to resolve ValAllar.umap.
[2016.02.13-07.38.45:974][446]LogPackageName: SearchForPackageOnDisk took 0.021s to resolve ValAllar.umap.
[2016.02.13-07.38.45:974][446]LogNet: Browse: /Game/GenericShooter/Maps/ValAllar?game=DM?listen?RoundTime=10?KillLimit=10?ff=0
[2016.02.13-07.38.45:974][446]LogLoad: LoadMap: /Game/GenericShooter/Maps/ValAllar?game=DM?listen?RoundTime=10?KillLimit=10?ff=0

I actually have an unique SteamID setup already - so the game also already downloads through Steam. Everything runs fine except for the server list in online-mode - Steam integration also looks good on the client, ingame overlay is there. According to that log message it even tries to start an online game - just getting this session error and the game does not show up in the server list.

Some how the session is being failed to be created. If you create a server through the main menu, it definitely causes Create Session. Unfortunately I don’t offer any support for Steam, but I’m slowly working on a Steam guide.

@DirkAhoy;473120

Hi - I tried the slack page but I need to sign in - apparently I need an invite from the team? I did create an account myself but this just creates a new team not a login I join that page with - I did figure out the anims in the end but would like to join that channel on slack as I really like the generic shooter code alot
cheers

Try joining at genericshooterslack.herokuapp.com

@Control;477425

Hello, so I need to set up time between shots when the weapon is not automatic so like I can’t click like crazy and pistol will fire always.Setting up Winding down time seems as a good start but my weapon losts its ADS position when I have wind down time more than 0. And also how can I join GS slack community?

Semi-automatic weapons respect time between shots in the latest update. (at the time of this writing, this isn’t released yet)

[TK-Bear]

@TK-Bear;462498

I saw a couple others post on here that they were trying to get the tracers from proto working as well so I thought I would share my solution. What I wanted was a tracer that would work with the instant hit weapon yet look like a star wars blaster or something of that sort. So this isn’t perfect but I like the result so far, and I am still learning like many others here.

First I could never get my mesh tracer to even point the right direction, it always pointed down X for the world and I found I had to make the following changes to the blue print and particle for the prototype tracer.

on the blueprint for the instant hit weapon I capture the rotation of the weapon muzzle and pass it to the spawn emitter at location. Previously Rotation was blank here:

I added two properties to the tracer mesh particle to start: Initial Velocity and Acceleration

For Acceleration I wanted this to travel fairly fast so I set the acceleration to min and X 8000 Y 0 Z 0. Then, and this is important I made sure to uncheck the Always In world Space. Otherwise it will travel down X for the world not the player.

For Initial Velocity I then set it to min X150 and x 450. This was because I wanted the blaster beam to appear a little ways ahead of my gun / blaster. This was because in star wars and other sci fi a lot of time you didn’t see the beam travel all the way to the target. You saw a flash at the start, the end, and a quick beam mid way. The min and also I think makes it look a little different each time you fire.

Now I don’t have a screen shot of this setting but I also set life time for the particle to only .15. But This should at least get you started if you are like me and want to use the Prototype tracer with the instant hit weapons. Play with the settings and tune yours as I still am mine to get it how you want. I also Added a new impact that was a little bit of a blast look, and this helps fool the eye that the particle does not go directly to the hit point. Since it is queuing off of the muzzle direction this is, like I said not a perfect solution and not always going to exactly go to the target. But thats also why I only have my tracer appear for a split second mid way, and I am still fine tuning mine. Hope that this helps someone else out there as well.

So I want to reply to this as I finally figured it out and cannot believe it took me so long. Anyhow I was approaching it as I needed an endpoint and to get the projectile going the correct way I added muzzle rotation and was trying to set up an attraction at end point. When in reality all I needed to do was calculate the rotational difference between the muzzle and end point and the projectile will automatically move towards the end point based on the rotation. Its so easy sometimes it doesn’t even hit you at first. Anyhow I posted a pic of the mod I made to my description above. This should help anyone else who got the proto weapons and wanted to get the mesh tracer working.

maybe you could add the rotation between muzzle and end point to the spawn emitter at location? Previously this was empty.

Thanks and hopefully this helps someone else out as well.

[Allar]

@TK-Bear;480895

maybe you could add the rotation between muzzle and end point to the spawn emitter at location? Previously this was empty.

I’ve already done so and it should be in an update this week.

[Burnz]

Hey ,
just wanted to let you know everything is working fine. I got dedicated servers working as well - had to change some classes in the engine but it works fine now.