Now node: combine seconds and milliseconds

[A5TRO-MIR]

Hi everyone.

I have a question that’s starting to drive me crazy and I didn’t found an answer on the internet.

Here is the problem:

Regarding the '“Now” node to get the real time of the machine, I’d like to know if there is a way to combine the second and the millisecond in one output, when the node has been split.
Currently, it goes second by second but I’d like to have the complete evolution before jumping to another second.

For example, I’d like to have 17.894 seconds instead of a pure 17 seconds until the next one.

The only close way I found was to use an Append node but when I tried to apply it, let’s say to a rotation, it seemed like it only counts the seconds but does not count the milliseconds, not in the way it meant to.

Nevetheless, the Print String node show a correct value, with seconds and milliseconds coming together.

Any thoughts about a solution ?

Spoiler alert: I don’t have a huge experience on UE and even less on the Blueprint system.

Thanks in advance !

[Mind-Brain]

Hey @A5TRO-MIR !

It should work if you use separate conversion nodes! This is not good, as far as I know, I’ve never done this:

Just use two of these. Also you could probably just use integer→string conversion instead of having to convert it to float first. Also, on the Append node, you can add another slot if you want to add in a separator, like a “:”!

Hope that helps!!

[A5TRO-MIR]

Hi @Mind-Brain , thanks for the answer !

First, the conversion nodes were seperate, it was just a bad display, they were on top of each other…

Then, noted for the integer / string conversion.

Finally, the Append Node with a separator did not work.

So I went into a different way that looks like this:

This is surely not the best way to do it but I’m able to get the time with seconds / milliseconds and “compress” it to an exploitable format. Just have to divide it by 1000 to set the decimal and I had the result I wanted.

Anyway, thanks a lot for your help ! See you !