I have a character that you can change texture in the menu. Then on map load it carries over.
Menu widget>button>set var in game instance…
characterBP>OnLoad>set dynamic material
>OnTick>check var>set texture
works great. I don’t notice a performance hit, but I have several material swaps going. And I don’t mind the event tick in the menu as not a lot is going on.
But it doesn’t need to continue once the game map is loaded, the material can’t change after that.
I tried triggering a custom event from the button. Nope.
I tried placing the texture event in the map bp and triggering on load (cast to characterBP on both)
Any ideas?
edit-
I just threw a 0.2 delay in there and you can see the change on load, but I’ll probably fade in. I guess that puts it to 5 times a second instead of 30-60…
It is on the character now. The begin play sets the dynamic mat.
But while in menu it has to be ontick so it updates (the player is in menu).
But when I load the next map is when I don’t want tick.
It’s probably not a huge deal as the game is fairly simple.
—idea? maybe if I run threw a gate, close the gate after map load? can I even check map is loaded?
haha that worked.
My tick runs through a gate. checks the var when I use the buttons.
then goes through a branch and checks a new var- Is map loaded? boolean
When the map loads it sets the var to true>locks the gate and the tick stops.
