How can simple UE5 Blueprint features be replicated via Verse?

Development Programming & Scripting
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I’m hoping to swap out or add animations, meshes and sounds to Verse scripts. How can I spawn a skeletal mesh and set animations to play conditionally on a Verse script that inherits from ‘creative_device’?

I have scoured the documentation and tutorials on YouTube but found nothing covering this.

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because what you can do with verse atm is rather limited, mostly game handling logic and interacting with built-in fortnite devices.

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So there’s currently no way to build on top of the base class and spawn a skeletal mesh with a specific animation? The animated_mesh_device class allows users to set skeletal meshes and animations, so I assumed I could derive from this and change things via Verse.

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afaik you can’t, what you can do is have multiple (props?) with different animations assigned and juggle them with hide (teleport to hidden location cause there’s no hide method…) :smiley:
but I’m just using uefn for a week or so and would be happy to be all wrong and corrected

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Is it possible to edit or modify the default static mesh used for Verse scripts from in the script itself? Blueprints has this as a feature, but it doesn’t appear that I’m able to set class defaults for the device mesh unless I drag it into the world and change it there.

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I don’t think so, check the api docs to see what’s possible

you can also ctrl+click on device class in vs code editor to go to definition and check what’s exposed

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Thank you! It looks like Verse is still very limited with what it can do. I hope the next step the UEFN developers take is to add simple features like class defaults, more control over vector math things and so on.

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well, actually it’s so weird language that you might have good time learning with what’s already exposed :stuck_out_tongue:

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I can see that! I’m really having a hard time adjusting to how limited it is by comparison to other scripts.

For instance, it is possible to spawn in an instance of a prop, but not set creative_prop and store the instance for later work.

    @editable var IdleMesh: creative_prop_asset = DefaultCreativePropAsset
    SpawnedIdleMesh: creative_prop = creative_prop{}

    OnBegin<override>()<suspends>:void=
        MeshInstance := SpawnProp(IdleMesh, WorldTransform)
        set SpawnedIdleMesh = MeshInstance(0)

Is it not possible to even do this, or am I going about this in the wrong way?