Can't interact with 3d UMG widgets

[Alexander Paschall]

Sorry for bumping an ancient thread; Google just landed me here while trying to get a basic UMG widget to work in 3d (with the eventual goal of gaze/motion controller line traces controlling the widget). Did anything ever come of this? Did you end up posting this code and/or including this in 4.12 already? Thanks!

Nick ended up creating the solution rather recently. You can check out the latest update he posted here: https://twitter.com/NickDarnell/stat...98173730914304

[Kjasi]

Nick ended up creating the solution rather recently. You can check out the latest update he posted here: https://twitter.com/NickDarnell/stat...98173730914304

Is there a time-frame as to when we'll be able to see how he did it? Seeing it's possible is nice, but knowing HOW he did it will prove very useful for the community!

[Alexander Paschall]

Is there a time-frame as to when we'll be able to see how he did it? Seeing it's possible is nice, but knowing HOW he did it will prove very useful for the community!

In the livestream on Thursday, Nick said that it will be in 4.13 (as an experimental feature) and features should include documentation when they are no longer "experimental" or possibly sooner. Basically, it's a new interaction component that you can add to your player's character.

[Frozenfire]

so let me summarize this.

ability to interact with Widget in the 3D World is still not doable as of 4.12 is that correct?

[Alexander Paschall]

so let me summarize this.

ability to interact with Widget in the 3D World is still not doable as of 4.12 is that correct?

Not by default no, but the solution will be in 4.13.

[Burnz]

Yeah, i cannot interact at all with it... Could you show me your setup ? In the UserWidget itself i only have a button displaying Hello when clicked... cannot be triggered at all.
I'm not getting any debug message at all printed to the screen...

EDIT: You were right. There was a HUD Element set to "Visibility" and was blocking the raycast. Works fine, sorry about the confusion and thanks letting me know that it works for you, helped me to find the issue.

Yesh, and it's broken again....

[Crembo]

Not by default no, but the solution will be in 4.13.

I have updated to 4.13 and it doesn't seem to work?

(Also, bump)

[hamsterPL]

I have updated to 4.13 and it doesn't seem to work?

(Also, bump)

I had the same problem. Probably it could be fixed by using new interactive component component.

https://answers.unrealengine.com/que...ng-in-413.html

[Otreum]

Just wanted to post this here, this is the new method of interacting with 3D Widgets.
https://docs.unrealengine.com/latest...etInteraction/

While I can understand the benefits of this method, it has also caused more issues (for me at least, mostly because the system I had was working fine, and now it's not).
The big one being that you can no longer easily type into EditableTextBox's on a 3D widget, where-as, before, you could.

Most of my game is based around interaction with in game computers, navigating the back-end of the in-game operating systems with command lines (in game hacking) and now it's been made into a bit of a hassle.

I posted on answerhub in regards to the EditableTextBox problem if anybody wishes to contribute.
https://answers.unrealengine.com/que...3d-widget.html

[zeOrb]

It's broken again in 4.13 indeed.

*sigh*

[motorsep]

Is there a way to disable new 3D widget interaction thing ? (since it's an experimental feature anyway)

[NickDarnell]

Is there a way to disable new 3D widget interaction thing ? (since it's an experimental feature anyway)

To what end? It's a component, it doesn't do anything until you tell it to.

[NickDarnell]

It's broken again in 4.13 indeed.

*sigh*

It is working as intended in 4.13 AFAIK. What is currently broken?

[motorsep]

To what end? It's a component, it doesn't do anything until you tell it to.

Ah, I see. So, if it's a component, how can it break existing setup that was made without the new component ? (assuming developer keeps existing contraption and doesn't add Widget Interaction component to player's character)

[NickDarnell]

Ah, I see. So, if it's a component, how can it break existing setup that was made without the new component ? (assuming developer keeps existing contraption and doesn't add Widget Interaction component to player's character)

Because input into Widget Components is entirely different now; the component is an extension of those differences to allow input to widgets.