Hey,
I have been following this tutorial here, I’m trying to make a game mechanic where when the player picks up an item it will be logged into a journal. Kinda like the journal mechanic in Uncharted.
The current problem is the item found won’t stay in the journal if I don’t have the journal open when I pick it up.
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Here is the code
I hope this makes sense!
You invalidate the reference. When you open the journal next time, you instead create a brand new journal widget, which will have nothing in it. The old journal with the entry will be destroyed.
Just hide the journal. This SET node at the bottom has to go!
The old journal with the entry will be destroyed.
This is actually not true; this is, in fact, leaking memory. You keep adding those journal widgets to the viewport which will not let the Garbage Collection system swoop in and release memory.
I’m not sure if this is what you meant but I did take that set node away and made just the journal’s visibility change.
But now I have the item of the item not appearing at all, this i what its looking like now.
This is for picking up the item and adding it to the journal
The error message says that the issue is with the inventory.
I did do that i must have something else wrong, im thinking of maybe starting the whole thing over again or finding a different tutorial
The script looks fine(ish) apart from the that one SET node. This is a very common thing to do:
Try it like so.
Can we see how it’s being done? Scriptwise?
This is how the item is picked up with E
This is the actor componant to add it to the journal
I hope this makes sense!
