I’ve recently noticed I could open the Pause Menu widget while the Loading screen widget was in the viewport.
Going into the Loading widget, I implemented a simple disable input, but I’m not sure why it isn’t working. It still responds normally when I hit the pause button and the menu appears.
When the Loading widget is initialized it should immediately disable player input but it doesn’t
The alternative is to check if the loading widget is visible from the player BP and if it is then the pause menu can’t open, if loading screen isn’t visible, pause menu can appear but I can’t work out how to do the reference properly?..
Are we just showing a widget or actually loading a new level? What are the chances the player gets destroyed and a new instance is spawned? That brand new instance would have input enabled by default.
You make me think that because the player technically doesn’t exist yet until after the loading screen is done or very nearly done it’s not working. Is there a way to disable input regardless of the player existing?
re: Character class I believe, we are showing a widget while the level loads and spawns the player
Removing Context Mapping, and only add it once you’re ready (the game has loaded what’s needed). That should be done outside of a class that might get destroyed.
Or you could disable input in the player BP by default. And only enable it when it’s game time.
Okay, so the player parent class is Player Base and the Parent class of Player Base is Character.
I’ve tried using both Get Player Character and Get Player Pawn but neither worked. I’ve also tried the following but that also doesn’t work, and I wasn’t sure how to implement something similar in the player itself and where I could enable input/add mapping context again
