Generic Shooter: Support Thread

[CryDead]

@;316447

Sweet jesus, everyone and their mom wants a different, unique feature it seems. xD

It tickles my pickle seeing people with extremely low post counts or first posts in this thread. Lets me know I’m reaching a bigger audience than the forum regulars. I plan on tutorials for most things, but there are a lot of things, so I’m doing tutorials for the most requested things and working on updates for the most requested features. Tutorials reduce questions but features increase income, and I need both, so I’m trying to find the balance there. Thanks for subscribing, definitely the easiest way to see tutorials first. For more simpler questions, I answer them live on my twitch channel as well.

No, but I do now. I’ll add this to my “will consider” list as this would need lots of stub system functionality, such as an “apply effect” system to genericize catching fire or gravity pulses, as it wouldn’t make sense to implement those things specifically but instead I’d have to implement a system that can be used to implement these and most others, if that makes sense. I’d say if it does go in, it’d be several updates in the future. I’m actually trying to hold off on this as long as possible, as I’m waiting for the GameplayAbilities module to get further developed by Epic. When that module becomes more developed, I’ll be able to do all kinds of crazy things with it and having things catch fire will be trivial. Also, this wouldn’t be for projectiles only, instant hits should have this feature set too.

1. Look for the logic chain when player characters die. Instead of dropping them, theres a checkbox you can enable to destroy them instead. If you want the weapons to destroy themselves over time, this is something I’m adding to the next update, so I won’t be doing a tutorial on this, however what you could do is add a timer in a weapon’s dropped event and when the timer is fired, have it destroy itself.
2. Check the second post on this thread for a tutorial on how to do this.

Awwww yeah. Steam is easily the most asked for. I’m waiting till 4.8.1 to do a proper tutorial. Also, force your friends to vote Yes on Generic Shooter on Steam Greenlight so that I can cover more Steam features for yall. Steam Community :: Error

When 4.8.1 is released, you can find the hidden WindowsNoEditor mode by packaging the game! (And by hidden, I mean the same thing everyone else gets, but this time its GENERIC SHOOTER WINDOWSNOEDITOR)

I have already done Steam friends and avatar support for another project, but unfortunately this requires more things to be exposed to BP, so I might make a helper C++ plugin instead. Unfortunately at this time there isn’t really a way to do these things in BP.

At some point, yes. Most of the work is actually already done, I just need to finish it.

Thank you so much

[dkebeoz]

Its good your product, but i think i it need loop sound for weapons, is not on it, also in ammo factory and option for multiple kind of weapons (for example 7.65 for all rifle use that kind bullet) but i need to say thank you, you save me a lot of time and i appreciate your work and dedication on this template.

[Allar]

@dkebeoz;316860

Its good your product, but i think i it need loop sound for weapons, is not on it, also in ammo factory and option for multiple kind of weapons (for example 7.65 for all rifle use that kind bullet) but i need to say thank you, you save me a lot of time and i appreciate your work and dedication on this template.

I do support looped fire sounds, check out the Audio configuration variables in the weapon blueprints. When using looped sound cues, the sound cue will simply start and stop with weapon fire.

I didn’t go about defining ammo types as going down that road will lead to severe feature creep for things that most people won’t need. The Realistic Blueprint Weapons pack also handles most of that, so I figured if someone wants that type of weapon functionality, it already exists. I’m not looking to compete with other assets, just fill needed holes.

[_cDub]

@;316660

The idea is that data goes into BP_HUD and the actual display of that data goes into WB_HUD, this way the data will always be solid even if you switch out UI widgets, so if you wanted to do things like custom huds per team or per game mode or something, you wouldn’t have to re-make the data layer multiple times which would get all kinds of messy. The BP_HUD should either update its energy level from the player or the player should update the energy level on the BP_HUD, and then the WB_HUD should simply display that data through the use of its MyHUD variable.

That is kind of what I thought was going on. BP_HUD is more like a HUD agnostic data storage. Put all your stuff on that and any other HUDs can pull anything they need from it.

[zombie112]

Hey, quick question: Is there an easy way to force it to be first person only? Or just default to first person? I’m probably overlooking something trying to find it lol

[MajorFailure]

@;316730

Root motion is something I don’t have much experience with other than a lot of root motion work I did back when UE4 was beta (shout out to that beta participant forum badge). I haven’t really had an animator to work with to solve some more complex things I want to do. All my animation stuff is replicated correctly, so, as far as I know, root motion should work, but honestly I have no friggen idea.

Thanks , I spent all evening last night trying to get it to work in a basic third person template project with no luck. I’m looking for root motion replication of blendspaces for character movement (not just montages) but it doesn’t seem to be possible. I’ve asked in the animation section so hopefully someone from Epic will confirm whether it’s supported or not.

Thanks,

Mark

[LuLima]

I’m having a minor issue. It someone can help me it would be much apreciated.
I’m running two IDE’s in separate computers to test the LAN performance. However when i try to join one of the server with the other computer the simulator crashes with the following error: “TravelFailure: LoadMapFailure: Reason for failure: Failed to load package /game/genericshooter/maps/UEDPIE_0_ValAllar”. Can Someone help me with this?

[Abnormalia]

Hi , first things first, Great asset exactly what I wanted to do quick prototype!

I noted 1 issue so far. I replaced mesh with my weapon mesh. it works fine but server 90% of time show old (your) and new weapon same time overlapped. This not happens on client. 1 Time I noted weapon was not replicated properly and server was showing bot empty handed. besides it works really well so far.

Wishlist: Melee support

[MrMrC]

• question - What is the best way within the existing structure to check if “combat mode” is active for animation i.e. I have a weapon equipped. I could check equipped weapon each frame but seems to be fairly resource wasting. Any thoughts on where to easiest turn a flag on for combat mode when a weapon is equipped and active?

C

[CyberDev]

+9000 for melee and any plans to add crouching / crouch walking / sprinting / jumping ?

[docjor]

@CyberDev;317644

+9000 for melee and any plans to add crouching / crouch walking / sprinting / jumping ?

All those things can easily be added, crouching is already in the anim blueprint, all you need to do is make an input for crouching, hook it up to the crouch functions in the char BP, enable crouch in movement capabilities and then in the anim BP get Is crouching from the cast to player BP and use it to set crouching!

[MajorFailure]

Hello , I’m wondering if you’ve considered a co-op game mode, to make things even more generic! It would just need to be something really simple (first person to shoot 10 targets or whatever).

Since you’re working on the lobby system right now it might be worth considering this type of game mode before finalising it for team vs team. A simple wait for a minimum number of players type thing, then we can build on it from there.

Would be great if you could consider it please

Thanks,

Mark

[Allar]

@MajorFailure;317858

Hello , I’m wondering if you’ve considered a co-op game mode, to make things even more generic! It would just need to be something really simple (first person to shoot 10 targets or whatever).

Since you’re working on the lobby system right now it might be worth considering this type of game mode before finalising it for team vs team. A simple wait for a minimum number of players type thing, then we can build on it from there.

Would be great if you could consider it please

Thanks,

Mark

The lobby screen will support X amount of teams, including 1 team. I have a need for co-op for my own usages, so everything is being developed with future co-op support in mind.

[Allar]

@zombie112;317186

Hey, quick question: Is there an easy way to force it to be first person only? Or just default to first person? I’m probably overlooking something trying to find it lol

Currently theres no easy way, but would I would do is in the player controller there is a variable for “prefer first person” I believe, if you enable that and then simply remove the camera switching input so that the C key does nothing, boom, you’ll always be in first person.

@LuLima;317245

I’m having a minor issue. It someone can help me it would be much apreciated.
I’m running two IDE’s in separate computers to test the LAN performance. However when i try to join one of the server with the other computer the simulator crashes with the following error: “TravelFailure: LoadMapFailure: Reason for failure: Failed to load package /game/genericshooter/maps/UEDPIE_0_ValAllar”. Can Someone help me with this?

Connecting one editor to another is not really advised. You could do this using uncooked builds though. Run the editor with the commandline -game to load just the game and not the editor. This should provide much better results.

@Abnormalia;317428

Hi , first things first, Great asset exactly what I wanted to do quick prototype!

I noted 1 issue so far. I replaced mesh with my weapon mesh. it works fine but server 90% of time show old (your) and new weapon same time overlapped. This not happens on client. 1 Time I noted weapon was not replicated properly and server was showing bot empty handed. besides it works really well so far.

Wishlist: Melee support

Thats bizzare, can you post a screenshot of that in-game and a screenshot of your weapon’s component list?

@MrMrC;317448

• question - What is the best way within the existing structure to check if “combat mode” is active for animation i.e. I have a weapon equipped. I could check equipped weapon each frame but seems to be fairly resource wasting. Any thoughts on where to easiest turn a flag on for combat mode when a weapon is equipped and active?

C

Any weapon that is stored in character’s EquippedWeapon variable is… ‘primed for action’, except for the initial equip and ending holster anim points. You can always get the weapons CurrentState and switch off that, or you can use the functions such as “Can Fire” to see if its able to be fired, or a combination thereof. Not really sure what ‘combat mode’ means but reading the weapon’s CurrentState is probably what you want.

[The_Phoenix]

Hey .

Im so happy whit your product. One issue…

I just got 4.8.1 and tried package it, and it works. YES!

BUT! when i those the map i made myself, it restarts the game menu, but when i try to load the test map, it works fine.

I did the same as you did in the tutorial you made upon my request to put your own map in the game.

Thx in advance

[zombie112]

@The Phoenix;318062

Hey .

Im so happy whit your product. One issue…

I just got 4.8.1 and tried package it, and it works. YES!

BUT! when i those the map i made myself, it restarts the game menu, but when i try to load the test map, it works fine.

I did the same as you did in the tutorial you made upon my request to put your own map in the game.

Thx in advance

You have to either tell the packaging settings to package all maps, or add your map in manually in those settings. I did the same thing on my first package.

Also, Thanks ! I definitely did overlook the prefer third person option haha.

[Allar]

@zombie112;318076

You have to either tell the packaging settings to package all maps, or add your map in manually in those settings. I did the same thing on my first package.

Also, Thanks ! I definitely did overlook the prefer third person option haha.

Ah, you probably aren’t packaging your custom level. To add that to the list of cooked maps…

Edit -> Project Settings -> Packaging -> List of maps to include in a packaged build in the Packaging category -> Add your map there. Repackage and it should work.

[anonymous_user_fb040bbd]

Hey ,
Any simple to switch from 3ds to a fps?

[Allar]

@;318080

Hey ,
Any simple to switch from 3ds to a fps?

You can uncheck the Prefer Third Person variable in the Player Controller blueprint and then unbind the cycle camera button so the user has no way to switch cameras, and then you should be locked to an fps.

[MrMrC]

I get it. Combat mode was a flag I setup for my animation state machine… sorry for confusion. One more last question and I believe your question on this was that you might not know but worth discussing for the future of the template. Switched to root motion animations, works fine with one player. When I switch to two I cannot get the animations to replicate or the character to move forward. It is then replicating in place on the local machine and does nothing on the secondary players view port. Anybody help on this? Is there a specific setting for root motion replication that needs to be enabled?

Also when you get a shot look at the private msg I sent to you.