Training Stream - Tanks vs. Zombies: Movement and Aiming - April 5th

[Richard_Hinckley]

@LeFxGuy;504825

From the first lesson, I still have the problem that whenever I move the childTurret in the TankBP viewport and recompile, the engine creates a new child which is visible in both the editor viewport and the BP viewport itself as described in the old anouncement thread by another user.

Lauren and I just checked this, and it happens here, too. That looks like a bug! I’ll report it to QA in a few minutes.

@LeFxGuy;504825

I checked my code and compared it with yours and it is literally the same but maybe I missed something. It would be nice if you could make a statement either at the beginning of the second video or in the thread about whether the UCHildActorComponent stuff is buggy in 4.11 or well, I don’t know to be honest I started the project in 4.11 preview 4 or whenever your first lesson aired, just for your information.

Well, it can be an issue if you use a different version of the engine from what we have. We used 4.10.4 on the stream, not 4.11 Preview 4, so that could cause errors. However, in this case, it’s a legitimate engine bug. It is worth noting that since the game re-instantiates all objects on startup, your tank in-game (including PIE) should be fine, and should have only one child turret, even though it will have more than one in the editor.

@LeFxGuy;504825

To be honest with you guys, I really appreciate what you are doing for the community and I know this must be a lot! of work, but for the future I think it would be nice if you could have an eye on the accompanying thread for further help as the other thread didn’t get a lot of attention by both of you. (Of course there was GDC etc. so nothing personal and I hope you take my opinion in a neutral way)

We do attempt to stay on top of threads, but some posts may fall through the cracks, or may be addressed by other people like community members or other Epic staff. We’ll see if we can improve that. Thanks for your feedback!