Pointer reference to FVector does not yeild correct values

[anonymous_user_11336453]

Hello,

I’m having trouble with my game and I am convinced I am doing something silly that I just cannot figure out.

I’m making a hexgrid and inside a HexTile class I have an FVector that represents the center of the hexagon and a TArray of FVectors to represent the six corners of the hexagon. I calculate these correctly and render triangles accordingly:

As you can see on the details to the right under HexRendering, values of the corners and center of the hex are displayed correctly.

However, I am trying to reference these values via a pointer to the HexTile object but the values are always zero or terribly wrong.

Here I am looping through a select few of the hexes because I am attempting to render them as one mesh to cut down on geometry. However, the UE_LOG seen in the code does not output the correct values. This is the output of that log:

LogTemp:Warning: On col: 0 row: 0 ::: CenterX: 0 CenterY: 0 CenterZ: 0

LogTemp:Warning: On col: 0 row: 1 ::: CenterX: 0 CenterY: 0 CenterZ: 0

LogTemp:Warning: On col: 0 row: 2 ::: CenterX: 0 CenterY: 0 CenterZ: 0

LogTemp:Warning: On col: 0 row: 3 ::: CenterX: 0 CenterY: 0 CenterZ: 0

LogTemp:Warning: On col: 1 row: 0 ::: CenterX: 0 CenterY: 0 CenterZ: 0

LogTemp:Warning: On col: 1 row: 1 ::: CenterX: 0 CenterY: 0 CenterZ: 0

LogTemp:Warning: On col: 1 row: 2 ::: CenterX: 0 CenterY: 0 CenterZ: 0

…and so on

I have no idea why this is. Hopefully someone can help!

Thanks!

[scyfris]

Hi T_Reg - for a little more context, what is “HexMap”'s type? Is it a TMap type? Also, where and how is that structure filled in?

[anonymous_user_11336453]

It is a TArray where FMapCol is a struct that holds a TArray<*AHexTile>

I’m new to unreal and didn’t see that TMap type… perhaps that would have been better.

Also, after five seconds a Generate() function is called in MapGenerator that fills these arrays and calls a function in the HexTile that takes a center location and calculates the corners from that. This is the most relevant loop in that function:

[Benergy]

Have you tried checking if a) row and col are in range of their arrays and if b) current is NULL? I just wonder about the meaning of x * tilesPerXSubSec and similar and if they result in valid indices.

[anonymous_user_11336453]

Yes, they result in valid indices. If they didn’t I think there would be a crash? Anyway, it gives indices in the correct range and in the correct pattern that I want.

I outputted (current == nullptr) and it returned false. I suppose that is the correct way to check that.

There’s something else peculiar I forgot to mention, however. I am able to correctly output something from the current HexTile. I can output a member variable called xSubSection which corresponds to the x coordinate of the subsection the tile is a part of. This gives me the correct values. It’s only when trying to output and access a FVector that this problem occurs.

[Benergy]

Okay, since your current HexTile is valid and the values are properly shown in the editor, perhaps your log is just wrong? I’ve noticed that you use %d in your TEXT macro, but members of FVector are float, so I would use %f. Also, you said something about a 5 sec delay before your tiles are placed. Is your log printing after that init for certain?

[anonymous_user_11336453]

Well that’s embarrassing… that was it. I thought %d would be correct because I thought it stood for decimal number but it’s an integer. When I replace with %f it works fine.
Thanks!