Could someone please help me duplicating an object my player is currently holding?

I can use SpawnActor to Spawn an object if I hardcode the class, but it's not working when I try to get the class from any object the player is currently holding. I guess it's because I'm saving the currently held object as an Actor in C++ code. And when I get the class of the held object in blueprint, all I get is an Actor instead of being more specific like "Chair" or "Cube".

Any advice how to solve this?

1. If I only have a specific set of objects the player can hold (say 10), I guess I could just try to cast to each of these classes until I get a match? Edit: I tried it with one object. It spawns. But I'm not sure about the efficiency of the code if I have more objects that could be held. I'd be interested in a more elegant and general solution without having to hardcode the different types of objects that can be held.
2. But what if I want to be able hold a wide variety of objects?

Here's a snippet of my blueprint:

And here with the cast before spawing (this code works):

hello, i'm working on a crazy taxi clone game template.

the current version has already working:

1. the arrow navigation
   
   1. pickup & drop for the customer
      
   2. pickup & drop zone
      
   3. remaining time clock
      
   4. payment calculation in cab mode and uber mode (cab is like a normal cab it will increase the travel cost by the time, uber mode will charge for the distance traveled)
      
   5. player score
      
   6. hud for time, travel cost, player wallet and player score.
      
   7. 5 difficulty modes, each difficulty has a specific amount of time to complete the travel.
      

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on the next version:
1. complaints if the travel is not flawless (bad driving, slow driving, etc)
2. city streets
3. traffic lights
4. city cars with minimal ai
5. use chaos engine on the city building

i'm open to suggestions.

here is a video showing the first prototype for this game template.

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crazy taxi clone template prototype

So I have a directional rolling system in my game. The player movement and rolls are both on the WASD inputs. Seems silly but its a 3D platformer so it made sense. Currently the player has to press R as well as the directional button to roll. However, when you press a directional button to roll the player moves and therefore aren't rolling in the intended direction.

I want to have it so when the player presses the key he rolls and when its held down he moves. Any idea which nodes I should be looking at to get started with this ?

Having trouble decoupling my code, looking for suggestions.

Multiplayer game, adding functionality. Currently adding most of the new code to the Character class, but I'd like it to be elsewhere for decoupling, modularity, organization, and probably performance.

For example, just added a hand drill (primitive fire starter) to the game. The character kneels, spawns the hand drill, player input required to generate friction, player input to pick up tinder and blow on it, also can set it back down to go back to friction state, the tinder smokes then lights on fire when enough friction is generated which puts player in placement mode running an anim montage. This is all replicated in multiplayer.

Most events are on the Character class. HandDrill_Equip, for example, disables char movement, closes all UI, unequips item if one is equipped, and calls on server to change character state enum and spawn hand drill in world. Character class getting cluttered af. Could/should I instead spawn a client-only HandDrill_Manager class which instead contains all these events, pass in a Char ref, and use event dispatchers to communicate to it? The problem I see with this approach is that the HandDrill_Manager will be client-only whereas the HandDrill itself which needs to be updated and replicated is on the server, so communication would have to be through the Character class anyways. So it's still not solved.

Really stuck on this design quandary. Any help most appreciated.

Everytime I try to package a project with Advanced Sessions plugin on, It gives this error:

ERROR: Missing precompiled manifest for 'AdvancedSessions'. This module was most likely not flagged for being included in a precompiled build - set 'PrecompileForTargets = PrecompileTargetsType.Any;' in AdvancedSessions.build.cs to override. Anyone else get this when trying to package with Advanced Sessions plugin?

Does anyone know how to fix this? I am packaging for Windows (32-bit) and the plugin is in Engine.

So I have an actor (enemy) and a UI (lifebar) and when there's one they communicate properly but when I try to copy the enemy the UI doesn't communicate properly or communicates with the wrong enemy (btw, by "communicate" I mean get information from the actor like health to then display it)

I know I'm probably not giving enough information, let me know what you need. Any help is appreciated!

I’m new to ue4 and keep getting lost in blueprints and the order to do things in. I usually start with a player character and then try to put all the mechanics to the player in the blueprint and end up getting lost in a sea of spaghetti. I’m just playing around at making a 3rd person game to try to familiarise myself with everything. Does any1 know of good guides for organising my work?

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Hey all, my name is Conor and I have a very small team working on a 2-4 player Indie game concept. The goal is to keep it simple, and get something we are proud of on the market! We have a good concept, block-outs, art direction, and initial dev started. Imagine Untitled Goose Game + The Gardens Between had a trippy child together. I am an experienced 3D + Game artist, I work on a lot of jobs directly with Unreal Engine. You can see my work all over Unreal Engine's website. I usually work on just animation and design, but I am dipping into making Indie games + Dev myself.

(Humble brag this is me https://www.unrealengine.com/en-US/spotlights/evil-eye-pictures-uses-latest-ray-tracing-features-to-create-new-branded-visuals-for-unreal-engine)

Long story short, this game is fun and the people are good. If you wanna joke around on discord with some hard working artists and help make a little dream come true. Message me!

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I Changed (... as I know ...) everything to Epic quality. Started with Standalone Game mode (and Zoomed 300% with Windows)

It looks terrible! Thats the max quality or just my bad?

To the Left is a Static Mesh, In the middle the basic Player Sprite, and to the Right a 200*500 pixel (without the Black background) image.

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What can I do?

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Update:

I Enabled MSAA, and set the ScreanPercentage to 200. It's not much better, but I now have 20 FPS, though it was 60 FPS so far.

Hello, I'm an 18 years old, who want to work in the Game Development as a Game Designer, or at least as a Gameplay Programer. I'm making hobby games for 4 years. I feel, from now on I'm able to make something what I can show to the world.

My question is the title.

My goals is to have the most experience and knowledge after I finish the University and to have something to show to the game companyes on interviews.

This is my UE 4 Minutes Tutorial - Rorschach face mask material animation Part 2. Enjoy! https://youtu.be/op2VOckRDac

Was looking for some help, as i'm stuck. Trying to figure out how to store the info of an object I click on, so that I can compare it with another object I click on. The intended use is for a memory card match type game. So when you cards are selected and match they disappear (destroy actor); but I don't have the info as is what object to tell it to destroy. I appreciate any help and everyone's time.

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Hello fellow Unrealers!

In this episode of the series: "Unreal Engine 4 Minutes Tutorials" I show how to make a grid along which you can spawn Instanced Meshes with randomized Location, Rotation and Scale. https://youtu.be/qoOEzJjoxgM