UI widget always spawns at World Location 0,0 and not at the desired position.

[DiliupG (DilupG)]

The code for creating the code, the user event code and calling the code is depicted above. But in the game, the widget is always spawned a world location 0,0. Can someone please help me.

[Everynone]

Instead of Render Translation, set the position in the viewport directly:

If you do not provide a value, it will default to screen location 0,0.

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The animation could use Render Translation in order to nudge the widget around.

[DiliupG (DilupG)]

I did what you asked. Here is the code. No change. Still the widget is spawned at world 0,0.

[Everynone]

Add to viewport first, only then Set Position. I’ve updated the image to avoid confusion, my bad.

Also, ensure the widget has no canvas, as this could offset any hierarchy.

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You’re making something similar to:

Damage displayed

Or use a widget: [spawnWidget.png] The widget is quite plain. You can add colours, crit sfx, alter font size, add outlines and so on. [widget.png] On Construct you position it in the viewport via an exposed variable and you set a target location for it to move towards to. The fading animating starts playing immediately. Event Tick will update its position. The animation changes text’s opacity from 1 to 0 over 1s and once it’s over, the widget gets removed from the viewport and garbage coll…

Right?

[DiliupG (DilupG)]

@Everynone, I found the error and thought of sharing it with you, who were so kind to respond.
You can see in the image above that I am taking the impact location from the impact point, whereas previously I had taken it from the Impact normal (which is not visible in the image I shared). Now all is OK. I only changed that, and everything else is as you see above.
Thank you for your kindness.

This is the code with the complete function.

[Everynone]

No probs.

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Not sure if relevant but for future reference, in case you did not know, UE has an interface based native damage system:

Which can also be further extended with Damage Type classes. Perhaps there’s no need to re-invent the wheel.

Good luck!

[DiliupG (DilupG)]

@Everynone! I didn’t know that! So how would one go about doing that? Can I add damage per bone?

[Everynone]

Oh yeah, have a look at thread:

Heath Bar for Different limbs

So I played with this and got here: Found a neat way to map widgets onto the physics asset. How close is this to what you need?

[DiliupG (DilupG)]

@Everynone, That’s really great! Would you share that, please?

[Everynone]

Look at the thread. Everything is there, the entire project is attached.

[DiliupG (DilupG)]

The numbers have to spawn at the hit location on the body. That’s why I used render translation. I will try what you suggest. Is doing render translation more expensive than what you suggest?