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Like a state preset? That’s more advanced than this topic here since it requires adding code to the plugin’s editor and runtime module. You essentially need to add an editor action that is added to the state tree editor that will spawn your custom state class into the tree like it does for the other states. Transitions are a bit easier but I don’t think they can be made in blueprints. Pretty much you will have to rewrite some things in the plugin, as far as I know none of the really core things can be overridden

@@DevGods Thanks for the answer! I was looking through the code for the State Tree plugin, I can’t understand most of the code but from what I could see I was afraid that I would have to customize the plugin itself in order to make custom states & transition types. It would seem that is the case. I don’t want to modify any engine plugins so unfortunately that’s not an option, I do wish they would have made the State Tree plugin more overridable and customizable in C++. It would have been super useful. But I think at this point I’ll need to try to create my own custom solution instead. Most likely I’ll need to create a simpler solution that uses the same core principles as State Tree and is more overridable & customizable in C++

@@AetherMomon You can actually copy the plugin into your projects plugins directory. Luckily state tree has no dependencies. When in your project folder your version will take over the main one. I've actually done something similar for my ability system plugin based on state trees. I still haven't added state presets yet but its on my todo list. Let me know if you get it working.

@@DevGods Thanks, that’s very useful! I didn’t know copying the plugin into my project would take over the main one. I will have to look into that then, though I have no experience with editor modules so it might be difficult for me. But I will let you know if I happen to get it working! It’s interesting that you’re creating an ability system based on State Tree, it’s an interesting way to utilize State Tree. I have plans to use an ability system alongside State Tree.

@AetherMomon Ha yeah editor programming is confusing as hell at first but I have faith in you. Your idea is cool. For me it’s just an unfortunate situation. Network prediction requires your code to be written a certain way which has a TON of boiler plate. I wanted to make a generic way to make abilities without having to touch all that boiler plate for both myself and any team members. I first used Flow Graph as the UI/UX but it was too limiting. I also tried creating my own graph editor. State trees has a really good core to extent to your needs so I just went with it. It’s been pretty great so far.

I’m glad. This video is really old so I’m sure there are better ways. Unreal changes so much over the years

Lyra uses this feature as well but it’s on compound V. Take a look when you get a chance

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Are you setting the actors type explicitly in the context actor variable? For example of the graph runs only on BPYourCustomActor are you plugging in just the actor or your custom one? If it’s the latter you should have access to all of its blueprint variables and public getter functions

@@DevGods Thanks dude, I was trying to access personalized events from my context actor, within a Tree Task state; But my mistake was to think that the link was automatic, everything was solved with a cast to my NPC

Thanks. I didn’t get it.

​@@DevGodsgame is looking so fun to play!

I’m pro c++ everyday all day. It will only make things better for you in the long run. You’re going to end up needing it eventually and then you’ll be mad at yourself for not doing it sooner. I wasted 8 whole months avoiding it. I regret that every single day.

@@DevGods I am not anti C++, but I have other suites to explore. There was a link to another obtuse resource from Epic, that wants to send me on a fetch quest for the simplest things.

If you think this method is cool you should check out a plugin in the engine called Mutable. It’s what I use now for character customization

@@DevGods Looks like its released officially under Epic version 1.8. As I see it in the optional plugins included with engine but its also originally made by Antico. Did Epic buy out the tech from Antico or something? Searching for stuff on it is kind of awful with a name like Mutable, since that's a pretty overloaded term in many contexts. That looks super neat/cool. Do you have any newer/other videos setting up and using that?

@namrog84 I’ve used it on stream. I think the creator works at epic now. They used this tech in the Lego Fortnite

@@DevGods I was so wrong. I actually looked at the 2 example projects for Mutable. OMG, I knew it was good from the basic overview documentation. But as I actually started looking at the code and examples and how powerful and more importantly how simple it is. I got everything up and running in almost no time. And it does everything so elegantly simple, easy to understand, and so very powerful. Anyone coming across this, absolutely stop doing anything else. Any other plugin or approach is outdated and a poor comparison to how awesome Mutable is.

@namrog84 yea lol as soon as I found out about it I swapped over instantly. The example projects make it a breeze to implement

Even in vs you should be able to right click the function and generate a definition. But post your code in my discord forum and I’ll take a look and see if I can see anything

@@DevGods i figured out the issue, thanks i was editing the file directly instead of making a .sln

Yeah, the truth hurts but that’s just what it is. Even right now working on what I expected to be smaller projects still have a pretty large scope for one person. It’s as if you have to settle on a really linear idea with no depth if you want to make it solo. As much as I want to make this style of game the amount of content and engineering needed would take me 10+ years alone. I haven’t met anyone trying to make the same style of game either or if they are they want to shit out a marketplace asset riddled bug pie in under a year. If c++ isn’t your thing what is it that you do?

​@DevGods I mostly rely on strictly blueprint. I just started truly digging around lyra I can say it's definitely a lot but I think I can handle it lol

The UI? It should if you’re using Lyra

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Do you have debugging symbols installed? You should join my discord and post the crash log in the divine forum channel

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@@DevGods Oh really? I've tried something similar to this video today (I'm using UE 5.3) and it seems to work so far. Maybe there's a new standard way to do it?

@jordiaragon6112 the foundation is solid but if you want to build from this you should take a look at how Lyra handles Enhanced Input

@@DevGods I will, thanks for your fast response!

Join my discord and post into the forum. Post the code you have and an example of what the final system should look like

@@DevGods Hello, I got in but it won't let me write

@cokegarci1553 make sure you’ve selected a role. And if you can’t post it’s because you are required to tag the post so it’s easier to filter

@@DevGods thanks

No plans for a video

Not covered here but if you know basic replication then replicating peeking is essentially a replicated enum that will switch the logic in the anim blueprint to represent what side the player is leaning to.

Let's Make Game has a template for a system on his patreon so I'm trying to learn how they made theirs but still working with Lyra like here. I'm close

Post the error message and your code into my discord forum

I program everything I can in c++ it’s just a preference. There are many advantages for using c++ over bp but if it’s a nuisance get it working in BP then migrate over. My channel is focused on building out scalable systems and imho c++ is the foundation for that. You are probably running into the issue where the state tree component has specifically set the allowed schema on its “StateTreeRef” to only be state tree schema if you want to set your custom schema’d state tree in your character’s state tree component in blueprints you either need to do it with a custom c++ function that takes a state tree as a parameter or create your own variable, override the initialize function in the state tree component and set the state tree ref to your state tree variable then in bp you can set your variable to be whatever you want. The reason you have no problems in bp is because you epic expects you to use only one schema which is the one compatible with the component.

The dunk is just interpolating the player to a position, animation and events in the animation nothing too special really. Are you making a basketball game in unreal?

@@DevGods Okay got you, i'll try that out and yea i'm tired of playing 2k its a waste of time/money. I'd rather try to make an enjoyable game that doesn't force you to waste money.

@Superbug2k I feel that man. Join my discord. If we are both making a basketball game we can team up and make it happen faster. 2 heads are better than one!

@@DevGods Yea that sounds cool to me ill join later today

I’m pretty sure you can

I don’t see why not

I don’t stream video games. I’m a game developer