widget button to change object material - where to script the actions?

[fael097]

@Everynone

You’re not putting anything in the Teapot ref… it’s stays invalid. The widget does know which teapot you mean - what if you have 5 teapots? If you’re doing this in the Teapot object just plug in self. This method of direct communication is OK when you need 1 to 1 comms - anything that grows in scope will need a different approach or will drive you mad when you need to rewire things for the nth time. Also, if you will never have more than 1 object at a time, (it hurts to say but here we go;) it’s probably OK with Get All Actors of Class.

well it’s not in the teapot itself, it’s in the hud blueprint, so “self” doesn’t work, and I’m still no able to properly reference the teapot anywhere, really don’t know why or how.

@Everynone

Your description makes perfect sense, btw. A couple of extra question, will the widget that controls the visuals of the object be unique for every object or differ a lot? How does the user skip to the next item?

so eventually I’ll have more than one object in the scene, and they will have different options in the interface, but the interface will be essentially the same, Not sure how it works yet but I was thinking of storing information on the objects regarding how many elements they have and the different material options that those elements can have, and then from the widget I’d just read those variables in order to create the appropriate interface for each object. should be easier (maybe not easier, but less work) than having a different interface for each object.

since in this proof of concept ther will be only one object and thus one interface, I’m not worrying too much about this for now, but I’m concerned on where the widget will be created, cause from what I’ve seen, there are many different ways to call for a reference deppending on what blueprint class you are doing it.