#touch everything

[slutobiwan]

[obgd]

Back to Unreal

Welcome back to me fumbling around Unreal and Blender. Been a bit. Been trying to do more in Unreal other than just putting things in the world. Started with making an interaction system to pickup notes and inspect items. Lets explore that under the cut.

I'm following a set of tutorials for this, because I really haven't touched blueprints until now. All four are by Code Things on YouTube. Not done it yet, but so far so good. It's a tad bit of a rabbit hole, but it's worth it

First: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTZhNb0eKa8 Second: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-JxS8yy6ao Third: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKO4DDjnP70 Forth: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDlnOg22YNQ

So far I've got it where as you approach the object the interaction icon pops up. The setup was fairly quick

Create a blueprint, drop in your mesh (the item to interact with), and put as many collision radii you want. I have 2. An "in view", and an "in reach" radius. But I wouldn't fault you for having just an "in reach" radius. To those collisions, attach your icons (Unreal calls them billboards)

To set up the events we need a "begin overlap", if the actor that enters the overlap is the player character, set the visibility of the "InReachIcon" to visible. DONE. Do the same for the "end overlap" event. Here I needed another "set visibility" at the end of that to turn off/on the visibility of the "InViewIcon" so they aren't both visible at the same time. Bellow that are the "begin/end overlap" for the "InViewIcon" aswell

The construction script is the thing that runs when the object gets put into the world. Here we can make the blueprint more versatile promoting the radii of the collisions to a variables. I also went ahead and promoted the height of the icon to a variable so we can adjust it for each item we drop into the world

[yiliawolf]

Curious if there are any other people out there who are in love with textures. Not just like fabric or fur textures or even “nice” textures, but all of them. The smoothness of glass beads, the softness with subtle give of leather, the different feels of the skin on different parts of your body, the little dips and bumps of paint on the wall, the roughness of driveway gravel compared to the small semi-smooth of aquarium gravel... I can’t own anything or use anything that I don’t like the texture of. I am constantly touching things and testing the feel of them... I don’t really know where I’m going with this. I just love textures.

[paperbacksoldier]

-touches the books-

“WH-”        “WHA-”                    “DOES ANYONE BELIEVE IN CONSENT ANYMORE?” 

[firethekitty]

Touch everything

Touch everything

[mile9213]

Why do you always have to touch everything? - I thought you liked that about me. -

Castle ( Kate Beckett and Richard Castle )

[mrpinchy]

rubythistle replied to your post “Anxiety is awful I battled with it for years uh my best...”

I knit when I get anxious or stressed. It's repetitive, meditative, and there's visual progress that I can see. Idk the tangible aspect of it all really helps, it's very grounding.

Knitting sounds amazing tbh, I used to crochet when I was little but haven’t tried since (I made mini pillows and blankets for my beanie babies lmao).  

ACTUALLY now that I think about it, the last time I was feeling overwhelmingly anxious was when I was sitting on a plane at Halifax waiting to take off in icy conditions.  I could feel my chest get tight, shit was starting, but I happened to be wearing a scarf with yarn tassels on the end of it.  I started quickly braiding each one, then undoing it to braid it again.  It really did help take my mind off the situation, or at least keep me from feeling worse.  

Touching stuff, working fabric between my fingers always calms me down I guess lol...  Maybe I should pick up crochet/knitting again.