Quality Game Settings Menu, a good looking UI ready for use

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@BarisT

Hello;
Here is my problem.
The packed game doesn’t crate “GameSaveSettings.sav” upon first running at the location of "C:\Users\UserName\AppData\Local\MyGame\Saved\SaveGames\SettingsSaveFile.sav"

It does create the “GameSaveSettings.sav” only after I launch the game and press “apply” in the menu. I want to be able to launch the game with default settings that I adjust with BPGameSettings, but I can’t.

For instance, in my combobox I use “language options”, since the settings are not applied, the game doesn’t display any language options upon first launch of the game. I have to manually apply settings only after I launch the game.
Any ideas?
I tried the suggestion in the manual 8.1, since settings are not applied on game start but nothing changed.
Everything is working in the editor, but not in packed game.

Hi, I am a bit unsure why your language option is having trouble, but I can explain the start process of the menu.

• Game starts the first time

• It calls “Init Game Settings” from game instance

• It looks for an existing GameSaveSettings.sav, but not finding it since its the first start time.

• Then a new BP_GameSettings blueprint be created instead, and use its default values.

• BP_GameSettings then overwrite some of its video settings from standard UE GameUserSettings.ini in function “Load ini Settings”.

• (You can disable this by disconnecting nodes in “Load ini Settings”

• Then the PlayerController creates the menu widget

• The menu widget applies all settings in BP_GameSettings so it works at game start.

• (Settings are not applied as a part of “Init Game Settings”, since it did not properly work in game instance. (I have not checked if it works in later UE releases))

• An initial GameSaveSettings.sav will not be created until user press apply in settings menu

• (This is to make it easier to test default values during development)

So in short, if you only want to use all default settings in BP_GameSettings during first start and create a .sav file. then disconnect “Load ini Settings” in BP_GameSettings, and save settings during right after they are initialized.

https://i.imgur.com/348sCOj.png

I do not know your blueprints on language combobox, but if you store the language selection as a part of BP_GameSettings (see part 5.1 of manual), you should be able to load selected language from the game settings object during your widget “Event Construct”.

@BarisT

I have one more question : Isn’t there no way to add game-pad support to buttons and sliders using the function “keyboard focus”?

The engine system for keyboard focus was not good enough, I tried to solve it with my own flexible system for gamepad menu navigation, but it got too complex in blueprint and I hit upon weird engine issues .

@BarisT

Isn’t this project supported anymore?

@gillechri0st

Ah ok, that would explain it then. Any rough ETA on a fix?

I unfortunately can only provide customer support when I have time. A full time job does that to you. I had a large update I wanted to finish last year, but I could never get around the engine issues. If i have to update, I need to rewrite the system for a third/fourth time, and hope I can finally get it right. I want to recreate and finish it, (Since there are a lot of good stuff in it) but I don’t have the time for it.