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Solved my own issue by bypassing the X -1, I went straight from get forward vector into make Rot from X into New rotation and that fixed my issue, question I have is is why? did it not work your way ?

I actually just discovered that my blocks don't have their pivot in the corner, but the center. I tried reimporting the provided model but it's now insanely large and doesn't import correctly, very strange.

I'm upset with myself that I didn't think of this earlier. My issue is resolved, instead of using the block in the provided assets, I remade the block entirely in Blender and redid the UVs, made sure the origin was correct, and exported it as a GLB file. For some reason, UE does not seem to like FBXs. I'm not even certain how my blocks were working in the first place (though with the incorrect origin), considering I used the one provided, but yeah reimporting that one messed up the UVs and smoothing groups. Creating a fresh block mesh and exporting as GLB fixed my issues, definitely a file format I'm sticking to from now on.

So it is possible to set something like this up. Unreal already has a replay system that can record entire games, but the issue is that to control and use it you have to do it in C++.

@@patsanoob thanks

Glad you like it. Would you mind pointing out where the organization is bad, always looking to improve? (Although sometimes it's difficult to make a perfect structure)

Glad it works! If you wanted to open the inventory in a 3D suitcase, here's how I'd go about it: - Start by making a new actor which will have your suitcase and a widget component. - When you create the new actor by pressing the inventory key, you play an animation to open the inventory. - Then show the inventory widget (set visible in game) (An alternative if you want is to have the inventory visible at all time, you just need to make sure it is attached to the right bone of the suitcase or that the animation doesn't require moving the suitcase) The forest inventory I made takes this approach without the animation element if you want to watch the beginning of that video just to get an idea for setting up the actor. Hope this helps!

@@patsanoob alright thank you explaining will try it out!

Are you sure you changed the size value that is exposed on spawn to be something different from 0? (easily forgotten)

@@patsanoob thank you for responding that's incredible! But that wasn't the problem but after a bit of searching i found i didn't plug in the return value from the lerp in the CE_Expand Custom Event into the Update Radius (Radius)

Glad you're enjoying it!

So you are right that is a way to save some processing, but the main issue isn't the visual part of the project, you can test this yourself by removing the "add instances" but still run the logic to determine which blocks go where and, you'll notice that the lag still persists. Because at least from my testing the issue is the complex logic that is ran for each coordinate in each chunk.

42:48 i forgot to connect Keys to For each Loop 0_0

I'm assuming you solved this based on your comment, but just a heads-up. The system runs under the assumption that you CANNOT have more elements than the "max stack", so it may work here, but it might break somewhere else. (I should have added something to stop that from happing in the A_Item)

Glad it was helpful!

I will add it to the list, but it will most likely just be equipping items not based on this inventory, (although it shouldn't be difficult to connect the two.)

Did you check that the items are being added correctly at 42:45? Because if that doesn't work, then you won't see them in the widget either, and you should revisit the beginning of the video.

@@patsanoob I'll try that. In the mean time can you give me ideas on why in your Satisfactory Tutorial #1 the buildings aren't spawning. Sorry for asking here, but I kinda need help.

Glad it can be of assistance with your project!

Found the cause of issue, I connected a couple of nodes incorrectly, In the AC_Inventory>Is Key Full function, I incorrectly connected the Break ST_Inventory Quantity to the A-pin instead of the second pin on the subtract node, with the Max Stack on the B-pin. If anyone else has this issue, refer to 29:00

Glad you managed to solve your issue! Sorry it took me a while to respond.

Sorry it took me a while to respond. You might have set them to be abstract classes by accident, causing them to be hidden. Other than that it might just be a bug with Unreal, because there is no reason for a class to not be visible in the editor.

@@patsanoob thanks for the answer, i did it at night and my attention was bad, i figured out the problem and now everything works

Sure, I thought my email was on the about page, but I seemed to have removed it. I just added it again.

@@patsanoob I sent you an email!

I unfortunately do not have the project files or a tutorial series for this project. But I'm planing on making most of these mechanics for my next tutorial. But if you are interested in the lasers in particular, there are two tutorial series. (the newer one is the better one)

Glad you like the series! As much as I would like to make a tutorial on that it would be a VFX which I am really not good at :/

@@patsanoob oh im not too good at vfx either lol. i meant like a different type of scan where for example, if you right click, it will scan from top to bottom. still, great tutorial and thanks for replying.

Oh okay, if that's what you are going for, you could probably get that result by tweaking the current system. I'm going off the top of my head, but I'd try to do the following: - Start by making a timeline that plays as long as the input for the scan is down. (Make it have a float value go from 0 to 1 and back to 0) - Make a float for the width of the scanner beam - In the character make a copy of the "ScanArea" function with a new input of type float - Connect the timeline Update to the new "ScanArea" and plug the float value into its input - You'll also need a new "MakeStart&End" with the same "float input" - And instead of Random-Y being between (-1 & 1) you'll want to use X&Y range and the scanner beam width to get a "percent" - With that percentage, you'll assign "Random Y" to be between the "Input float" - "the percent" and the "input float" + "the percent" Hope this helps!

​@@patsanoobthank u for the help man ill give it a try!

Oh, shit, I never thought of it that way, but you're absolutely right. I'm so stupid for having missed that, thanks for pointing that out! I only recently learned the actual impact that casting can have. But I never thought about using an interface to act as a bridge in this way, thanks a ton!

@@patsanoob I found the best solution in general to use data assets. 1) In your Data Assets keep everything as soft references, in particular static meshes, skeletal meshes and textures "for icons" 2) Pass the data asset as Object soft reference instead of Data Asset soft reference this way it won't load all the full data in all blueprints you pass it to. 3) When you need the info from the data asset use Async Load instead of the load asset blocking this way it will load in a more efficient way without creating stutter. 4) When you load the Data asset considering that loading an object will convert it into an object you will need to use the interface to access all of the variables inside, but this way you will load in ram only what you need when you need it. 5) Save everything in the data asset as soft reference including static meshes, skeletal meshes and textures this way when you pass the data asset it won't load them until you need them and you will be able to keep everything in one data asset. 6) When you need special actors like static meshes, textures and skeletal meshes after loading them from a soft reference it will be converted into an object reference and you won't be able to use it to set the static meshes, in that situation you can cast to static mesh "this is why casting still exists" and convert it into a static mesh that now you can set your item static mesh to. Doing so this way it won't load the static mesh in every single location you load the data asset but only in the blueprint where you actually need the static mesh. Similarly if you have a texture you cast to texture to convert it only where you need it "for example the icon you load only in the UI when you load the ui and convert it into texture using the cast to assign it" 7) If you add other references, for example if you want the reference of the inventory inside with items are stored you can convert the self into a soft object reference avoiding forcing to keep loaded the reference when you don't need it anymore. For example when I loot an item I use a Blueprint Component that creates a trace line for interaction and if the item I try to interact with has the interaction interface I pass to the owner of that component using an interface all the data of the item using soft generic references also I convert the item actor into a soft object reference. From the Owner I then pass the data to the inventory component. Only then the component uses some of the data to try to add the item to the inventory. Only if it succeed it loads the item blueprint reference and send a interface message to it to self destroy otherwise every item you don't loot will stay loaded in ram until you change map or reload the game/save.

But in this case you would still need to call "Load Asset Blocking" in order to call the interface function right? Would it even improve any memory allocation in this case?

@@fische11 If the asset is declared and saved as object you actually don't load anything from the blueprint. In fact, you will need to use another interface blueprint to access whatever you what from it.

​@@HTFGamesStudio So the Blueprint in the weapon class would look something like this right? WeaponDataAsset(ObjectSoftRef) -> AsyncLoadAsset -> GetWeaponName(Function call via interface in the data asset)

Yes, of course that would be possible. To do so, all you would need is to make an extra function in A_Builds called "PlaceBuild" that calls all the logic for activating the tower. You would call it right after the branch on true at 48:39 in part 1. (where you place the build)

If you are referring to the page turning element as you change zones, I'm not really sure I have the skills required to make something like that I have no experience with the 2D elements of Unreal and I don't have the time to learn them right now. So I can add it to the list, but it probably will be a long time before I get to it.

Glad you are enjoying it!

Hey for anyone having this issue MAKE SURE YOUR NODES ARE CONNECTED LOL. I figured it out AMAZING tutorial!

Happens to all of us ^^ Glad you managed to get everything working!

it wasn't a parameter, my bad XD

Glad you managed to solve it. Yeah, the cause of the issue I believe is that non parameters are 4 vectors, but parameters are 3 Vectors. Another solution if ever you need it is to add a component mask in-between and tick RGB to turn it into a 3Vector.

The focus of this series was really on creating the actual loading of the map, and it was not perfect, as you might have noticed, so I never really leaned towards saving and loading, sorry.

Glad you managed to find the problem

You would just need to add a niagara particle system to the cube actor.

@patsanoob I already tried but I don't know how to do the duration

What do you mean by duration? If you want a laser to appear as you scan, then you just need to use set hidden in game when you are not pressing.

@@patsanoob Ok I try. Thanks for helping :D

Glad you are enjoying it!

I'm glad you enjoyed it!