I had to change the Event Construct to a timer for mine to work. I don't know if 4.21 is different or if anyone else had this issue however mine is working great! Event Timer!!!
How do you change the Event Construct to Event Timer. Right click and searching for Event Timer gives me a "set timer by event" but requires an event, and I dont know what to do with that.
For those who don't know how to offset north for the compass, in the "Points" image, go to Render Transform and just edit the position in Transform >> Translation to the desired value.
Thank you so much, I tried it on 5.3.2 and it works like a charm! you are brilliant ! the math went over my head, but I hope to add print steps in between and try to understand how it works, for now just going to have fun with my game.
Thanx alot. This really helped. For those who struggle to align the compass with the real north in your project: inside the function "SetDirection" add the node "SetRelativeRotation" to the variable "Rotation" and choose an adequate Z angle to shift the compass bar according to your need. Took me around a week to discover it. maybe because I´m a noob :D
Thanks for this tutorial, it was really useful. One thing I did slightly differently was to set the Alignment to 0.5 for both X and Y on the compass image. This centres it within the compass canvas panel, as such, I was then able to remove two of those magic numbers that were added (the 2700 and the -30). Would be nice to get a solid fix for the cardinal positions / sun position so that all of these aligned correctly and were using the same settings, rather than perhaps rotating the skybox / editing the compass image. Thanks again though, appreciate your efforts :)
hey this was so handy and i was able to get it to work with moving enemy's by turning the objective marker in to its own widget and using interfaces and for each loops to assign an icon to each enemy at begin play and assigning the enemy location to each widget using interfaces and timers by events the end result was very effective and didn't drop my frames at all only thing i had trouble with was the fact that my camera is offset from the player so it took some work arounds to get the icons to display at the right times.
Thanks for the sweet tutorial! On a side note my project includes switchable 1st/3rd person cameras and when I use a branch in the construction script to feed the currently active camera into the Set Rotation it creates 2 instances of the compass, one for each camera. So weird. If I use the 3rd person camera alone for Set Rotation it shows one compass and works correctly for both cameras.
So years later, from 4.21 and 5.3, after encountering the same issue where the Points image disappeared, encountered the same issue in ue5.3. Removing the default .5 alignment on the Points image worked!
Awesome Tutorial. Took a little work to get mine working correctly with an eastern rising sun but after that it works very well and is very clean. Much appreciated and keep it up!
finally, someone who knows how to explain why they are doing what they are doing while they are doing it. instead of " just click this and put this here , dont worry just do it"
@@underscore00 i do have one question, when character dies and respawns this error occurs *** Blueprint Runtime Error: "Accessed None trying to read property Rotation". Node: Return Node Graph: CheckNavPoint Function: Check Nav Point Blueprint: Compass_HUD
@@underscore00 you're welcome i was adding a compass to my game that i am building it is a JRPG, FPS, and Parkour hybrid the mechanics i use from FPS are a minimap and an overshield to protect the players health
Hello. So at 12:10 you are casting to player character on every tick? Why not take a player reference at widget event construct? Or use again the event by timer for the nav point check too, like you did for the compass I wonder (btw I think this is the best skyrim like compass tutorial on youtube)
Edit: Turns out that was not the problem. I had the timer function set to 0.01 and not 0.001. It was working, just very slowly lol. Help? The "Target Follow Camera" won't work. When I try to search it up nothing with the word "follow" comes up. I have multiple cameras set up for my first person player character, and have different names for each camera. My third person camera is named "TPCamera", and my first person one is named "FirstPersonCamera" and with all of this I used the First Person Template.
Is there a quick way to orient the compass differently? i want north to be a different actual direction cause im just now implementing this on top of previous work done..
I've got an issue with mine where when I look too far up or down with my camera the objective marker disappears, it comes back when I'm looking center but I would still like to fix it
I also thought about this problem and found a very simple solution - In the "Set Direction" function (Compass widget) add a "Float + Float" after the "GetWorldRotation" , connect in all together and calibrate however you want it :) It's a late reply but hopefully will help others in the future
I had to use `SetRenderTransform` instead. No big deal but I had to divide the float by two so the compass would rotate properly. I'll add an image of my blueprints for reference. pbs.twimg.com/media/EM10YNMU4AIWlK1?format=jpg&name=small
Thanks for the update! I just tried this and it works perfectly - The initial discrepency could be because I made this video with 4.18 and there's been like 6 point releases since then. Anyway, thanks for the solution
@@underscore00 Tried the other guys solution. At first I couldn't connect the Slot as Canvas Slot Node's Return Value to the Set Render Translation's Target Node. I eventually realized I could just connect Points directly to the Set Render Translation's Target Node. Got past that hurdle. Then when I test it now appears to cut out any compass points from SE to North while rotate clockwise, in the counter-clockwise direction from North to South-East also disappear. My speculation was it has something to do with the CheckIfBehind function we made. Tried changing that to a less than or equal to 140 degrees but that didn't fix the compass not showing the south or west directions. Ok, I moved the points position on the HUD Widget and something about that is what causing issues with the compass cutting off part of the points.I double checked the clipping, the Clipping on the Points part of the widget is set to clip to bounds. Alright well I'm tapped out for now but the compass is 75% working lol.
@@skjoldgames Alright sounds good. Any idea which part in particular you would like to see? My blueprint looks identical to your example. My attempts thus far only point me in the direction of the compass widget having an issue. As I rotate my third person character camera during testing the compass moves, and the point at which it starts cutting off for me, with where I placed it in the widget is around the Southeast to Northwest Cardinal Directions Rotate the camera past SE on the compass. You can briefly see S as you rotate towards the SE direction but then it cuts S off the compass and fails to show the S, SW, West directions on the compass anyways as you rotate the camera. Once you wrap around towards the Northwest direction the compass begins to work properly again. I first speculated the Check if behind with the less than 140° statement was culling 140° behind the character as I started. That didn't seem to be the issue however. I'm using 4.21.2 of Unreal Engine. So following Unreal's Degree Notions this dead zone on the compass appears to be somewhere between 180° (directly behind the player) and 360°. If that makes sense.
You could also add an offset to the front of the rotation (before the * -1.0 operation). And Skjold Game Studio suggestion below to use Set Translation instead of Set Position is a great improvement to this swell tutorial
Thanks! There's a float value in the HUD blueprint (in the function) that sets the 'loop' point of the compass. Experiment with your maths, you'll find the right values :)
I'm having a very odd behavior. Upon first starting play, the quest indicator appears over the correct location, and it does rotate with the compass correctly as I look around. But as I actually move around inn the level, the quest marker doesn't move to match. It stays pointed in whatever direction it was originally, as though my objective is moving with me in space. I can't figure out what may be causing it, the rotation is clearly working correctly so I'm not sure why location wouldn't be.
Good tutorial. Five years after your video I ask you: How can I make the compass rotate on an artificial horizon? (I'm really new to this and learning from videos). Google translator helped you understand me...
Hi thank you for this tutorial ! I know is 6 years old and it works on UE 5.3. I've noticed that if my character looks down at the ground, the objective is no longer displayed, and the same happens if he looks too far up at the sky. I also deleted the -2700 node because it was only displaying half the points.
Hello, I did everything exactly as in the video, unfortunately it does not work for me. the compass rotates, but probably so fast that you can not see it. I already use the Unreal Engine 5.1. I hope you can help me.
What changes you have to make if you don't want the entire width of the screen but only place the compass in the right bottom hand corner with a specified width?
Love this tutorial, but I cannot get the sizing to work right. My compass cuts off part of it and it jumps from NE to W. Tried using different values in the function but nothing gets it right. I even made my image 5400 to match yours. I'm also on UE5.1.
I am having the same issue. EDIT: Solved it. I was getting yaw from Get Actor Eyes View Point instead of the yaw directly from the camera (since I had multiple pawns in my project, I wanted a way to access the camera rotation that was agnostic of the pawn class) and this puts out a value between 0 and 360. I suspect the math done in the video expects a yaw between -180 and 180. The fix is to simply subtract 180 degrees from the Yaw value when you get it from the camera rotation, before the rest of the calculations. I also recommend the approach suggested by @rob_meade to align the points to 0.5, 0.5 so you don't need the 2700 or -30 magic numbers.
so i have this set up with another character but once the marker goes too far off the canvas panel it disapears, is there any way that the orange marker can be seen on the compass on the far right or left so its always in the canvas panel instead of being hidden?
Thanks for the compass! But I have an issue as reported by Arceah. Using a third person camera, when you move the view far up, or far down, the marker disappears. Only appears when you have the camera leveled near the horizon. Any fix with this?
Hey I was wondering how you can remove the navpoint from the viewport once your character reaches the destination, or how to add new navpoints through trigger boxes?
For anyone else that has the same question, you can do an overlap sphere and destroy that navpoint actor when you reach it. Additionally, you can spawn a navpoint actor from a trigger box.
@@MrCveedub I attempted to do this, (by spawning an actor and random target points through level blueprint) and the compass shows an Icon for the actor in question even before its spawned? Once the actual actor spawns, the compass corrects itself, but do you know how to get rid of the 'ghost icon' that exists on the compass before its appropriated actor spawns in?
@@MrCveedub I think I figured out what it is doing- the objective point seems to be guiding me to the 0.0, 0.0, 0.0 location of the level until the actor it is tied to spawns in. Only once the actor (that its tied to) spawns in does it correctly shift to its rightful target. How do I get the objective point to be non existent until the actual actor its intended to lead the player to spawns in?
@@CommanderColson I only watched the first 10 minutes as I wanted to see how he did the compass rotation. My response to OP was just going off what I already know.
Here's my solution : 1. go to the Your HUD Widget BP, into the graph editor, and create a new function call it -hide objective-, go the event graph, and connect the new function to the event tick. 2. inside this function Get player character -> cast to your character -> as character get nav point -> vector Equal to vector - > branch if true -> get objective -> set visibility -> hidden 3. go to your objective bp, in my case its a Weapon, When i pick it up --> Get player character -> cast to your character -> as character set nav point and leave it 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 You can implement it with upon overlap it will also work. hope it helps somebody! i know i hate getting stuck on these things.
I realize I'm late to the party here, so I don't expect much. I am working on a project which allows the player to switch between TPV and FPV using a keybind. Using this compass, which works perfectly while in TPV, (as it uses the equivalent of the follow camera), but it stops rotating at all while the camera for FPV is active. There are two cameras that the view switches between, but the TPV camera does not move. Any ideas as to why this breaks in FPV? Thanks.
Hey, trying to adapt this to a default first person character and as mentioned below, I don't have the get follow camera node. I try to get first person camera as well, the compass displays but doesn't change. Am I missing something? Thanks!
Mine simply will not scroll. At all. I’m going to try and figure out why, but I have followed your steps perfectly multiple times and it simply will not scroll, the points stay static.
Trying to replicate this in a firstpersonclass to understand unreal engine more, I came across the error where 'First person character' does not inherit from 'Player Controller'. What is the solution to this? Everything else seemed fine until this part
Your player pawn/character and your player controller are different actors in the game framework. Im guessing youre using a 'get player controller' node? Youll need to cast to your player controller from that node. If you're using a 'get player pawn' or 'get player character' node, then you can cast to your First Person Character.
I know this comment is super late to this party but is there a way to align the compass with a specific north vector? I'm modding a game and this would be a very useful tutorial if not for that one thing.
The compass just disappears completely beyond NW and leftward, and the art does not loop even though I checked that Loop box on the timer by function. SE floats of the screen perfectly fine when I rotate to the right, but NW does not come after it, nothing does. (Version 4.21) EDIT: Found the issue. the "points" image or texture cannot be perfectly centered for some reason. After setting its X position to a random value manually, it works perfectly fine!
I had a similar issue, I think I accidentally changed the size of the image within the designer.. To correct it, all I did was change the 'Points' image X dimensions within the designer to 5400 and it worked a treat!
@@JenkaYT So years later, encountered the same issue in ue5.3. My solution above and yours did not solve the problem. Removing the default .5 alignment on the points image worked!
This is mostly working without a hitch, but I am having an issue where the Check If Behind function seems to be returning totally incorrect values. I don't math hard enough to understand how to fix it. The one difference between my code and yours is that my normalize function on the vectors takes in a Tolerance argument. Not sure if that's breaking anything or not.
Followed your tutorial which is very nice btw, however I ran into an error. While panning the camera 360' I notice that SE jumps to SW. So if I'm facing North and spin 180' I'm still facing North instead of South. I'm using a texture that is 2048x64, but I even re-scaled it in Gimp to 5400 and still have the same issue. Also true north seems to be a bit off center, so as to face North and run straight, I'm actually running at an angle. Any tips on how to smooth this out is greatly appreciated. I'm on v4.19 btw.
Great tutorial i tried it in my MP project but when a player dies i get the following error "Blueprint Runtime Error: Attempted to access FollowCamera via property Rotation, but FollowCamera is pending kill from function: 'Set Direction' from node: Set Position in graph: Set Direction in object: Compass_HUD with description: Attempted to access FollowCamera via property Rotation, but FollowCamera is pending kill " Any thoughts on how to correct this ?
Hi, thanks :) I think this is happening because the compass HUD is still trying to work after the player is killed, so it's looking for a camera that doesn't exist. One way to fix this would be to set up some code to deactivate the HUD after the player dies. Next time I'm at my PC I'll see if I can hack something together. Hope that helps!
It's just the name of the camera component in your player pawn - so if you're not using the default third-person template, its going to be named something different.
If you drag off from the cast node and type 'get' you should see a list of variables and components in the pawn. Just make sure you're casting to the pawn you're using and you should see your camera there!
I have 2 characters(for now) so i tried to cast one of them to test the compass,i got the player character,and then the follow camera.After a few times that it didn't work I tried to print a string if the cast fails,and it keep failing....with both of the characters
@@underscore00 Nope,singleplayer,but the Player can choose which character he/she wants to use for the game.And i have no clue about why it fails to cast both of them
i'm having the same issue. when i run it on event tick (inside the widget blueprint) it works fine. i only have 1 player character but the cast is always failing. any luck resolving this?
i need to say thank u so much for sharing this with us !! this is probably the best compass i ever found on the internet. i think the other oldschool real compass designs they are colourize and round is not looking good :/ i hate that kind of compasses.. this compass design here is basic and the fuckin best !! i put these into my 75qkm landscape map with megascans realistic textures and all that stuff an its look absolutley amazing.... the only point on this video i found not so good is that you work in your speed ..same as when u work alone. fix it fast and make it happen... but the problem is u make a video and other people want to learn from it.. better without making every 2 minutes stop and rewind forword and all that shit. BUT.. thats only finetuning ;) hope we see more from u
Great Tutorial! Loved It! Just wished the compass followed the true cardinal directions. My player faces east at game start but the compass readout thinks he is facing the South West. Thought it has something to do with Unreal not following the standard unit circle. The one you learn in school for geometry which starts at 0°, or 360° at the East direction then goes counter clockwise to 90° North, 180° for West and 270° for South. Unreal seems to go clockwise 90° at south 180 west 270 north and back to 360 for east.
Thank you! Yeah it is a little strange how UE4 handles 'world' rotations, but for a quick and easy fix, you can simply rotate the skybox or adjust your directional light to match with the compass. Alternatively, I think I could have spent a little more care in placing the N, S, W and E on my compass image ;)
This. The "compass points" texture is off by the equivalent of 135 deg. (Assumes N is at 0 deg. Print the camera yaw to see the actual degrees.) I just went into my paint app and offset the texture to be in the correct place. (N should be in the center horizontally.) But, great tutorial! Saved me a lot of time and effort... Nice job!
Ooo I saw it down at the bottom watching this that you ask the person to see their game because of you like to see their games in action. 8months, first programming/ 3D graphics experience. Most assets are made myself with some textures being taken and of course some stuff off store (like the procedural houses) drive.google.com/file/d/11WmPC0aj9DxiXXPhpw0TWoIiMYGIG05s/view?usp=drivesdk it's been updated quite a bit since then but I have some junk in the file to prevents me from compiling a new version. And for now I need them while I complete a few things. So don't feel like dealing with removal/addition or excluding just for a package. Not much play yet but the base is mostly there
@@underscore00 it'll probably crash 😭 Works on my phone (from what I've read developer mode matters) And my buddy S8 But some my friends won't even install I'd appreciate some videos for mobile specific stuff. Skysphere doesn't seem work right, mobile lighting/post process, particle effects on mobile: my water looks black my fireballs become green ugh
@@underscore00 oh no! Updated it because I was worried about you seeing it broken and my level streaming isn't launching properly! Doesn't pull the loading screen and does an empty level with no character when you hit start game!!!! 😭
Thanks for tutorial! I have a question: My map mimics Google Maps 3D scenary and my compass points to West while Google Maps points to north at the same direction...how can i fix that?
I don't know if anyone has a better fix but for the issue that the marker disappears if you looked up or down, a quick and dirty fix is at - check if behind function - you have two vector inputs, object and camera, disconnect camera from normalize then right-click the camera input and choose split struct also right-click on the normalize vector and choose split struct again, now only connect x and y nodes, don't connect z and that's it, hope that would help anyone who is still having this issue :) .
You can't with the provided compass texture as points are offset. Use this one instead and be sure that your compass texture is at 0 on X axis in the widget designer. drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B3uULhL-L-aeQzR1NFF5YWVqYkU
Even if it´s too late but maybe it´s worth to mention my solution: inside the function "SetDirection" add a node to the variable "Rotation" called "SetRelativeRotation" and choose an adequate Z angle to shift the compass bar according to your need.
I love this and will be using it in my game!!! I have one question though, can you make it point to the center of a shrinking battle royal zone? If so this would be the most perfect thing ever!!
Thanks man! :) Send me a link to your game, I'd love to see it in action :D Should be easy peasy to have it point to the middle of the circle! Off the top of my head, just make an actor with nothing in it (so it's invisible in-game) and set it to the location of the middle of the circle. All you'd need to do is add some code to your blueprints to change the actor's location whenever the circle changes.
I think you are thinking of area 13 games. Which is the name of of a game development company and that is not mine. Mine is facebook.com/Area13-Official-Site-252480648841345/
I am having a little problem with this.When I added it to my my main game it shows on screen and moves but it will not turn completely. It will go S.W to W. and back to S.W (no others will show) and I am sure I have it just like you do. Any help would be greatly appreciated!!
Love your super instructional tutorials. Wondering how you would go about offsetting the compass or establishing an actual north. Following some of your other tutorials we essentially discover that the player starts the default game modes always facing East and looking towards the sunrise (ruclips.net/video/x3xBtPIVWEs/видео.html - when this is applied to 1st person or 3rd person template sunrise is in front). Obviously if the character faces the sunrise, then north is 90 degrees to the left. How would you go about implementing this to where you could also change the position of North at will?
I did some more basic math given what the tutorial teaches, figure I'd share it. It's probably not ideal, but it seems to work fine on far off north. Paste bin kind of glitched, that's a Find look at rotation with the start as World Location of player mesh, and the target as North. The actor forward vector and rotation from x vector is used to get the direction the character faces and subtract the inverted result of the look at rotation from it. The value is then normalized and fed into the range for clamping. blueprintue.com/blueprint/75vh-doi/ Got this to work flawlessly at any distance in the end. Remove the *-1 and proceed without, and perform the ages old "tweak the texture" magic trick. For whatever reason my compass texture wants to be 180 opposite of the math I shared in order to always point north no matter what. Can't say I understand this behavior at all yet, but rotating a round texture is a pretty easy fix.
@@underscore00 Yep. I was in the event graph just for some reason it wasn't comming up. I just had to close it and open it back up again. Thanks for the feedback 😄
ruclips.net/video/5K1h996h5Lk/видео.html EDIT* found the solution (using the dot product between the normalize2d and the right vector of the camera, which you had us setup tin the checknavpoint function, and using greater than 0 for one direction and less than for the other)! Thanks for this !really cool, I even got multiple objectives working with it, but I have a great problem I have not been able to solve, I made 2 boxes, one on the left and one on the right so that when the objective marker is not in view it at least goes to one of those boxes to indicate in which direction i need to turn in order to locate that objective, but the problem is i can not solve how to figure out if a object is on the left or right of me, ive tried a lot of calculations for what i thought would be something really simple and using things like find look at rotation just yields different results depending on the height (since this is a flying game im making), do you have any clues on what i should try?
I had to change the Event Construct to a timer for mine to work. I don't know if 4.21 is different or if anyone else had this issue however mine is working great! Event Timer!!!
Thanks for letting us know! Great tip :)
Can you exsplane. The Marker in keep falling off the screen
How do you change the Event Construct to Event Timer. Right click and searching for Event Timer gives me a "set timer by event" but requires an event, and I dont know what to do with that.
I am using 4.24.0 and it works the same way as underscore did in his video
@@kazutokirigya2960 Really? I am using 4.24 too and it does not work for me. Can you maybe send a picture of your Code? Maybe you cha nged something
Thank you friend! 6 years later and it works perfectly in unreal 5.2.1
For those who don't know how to offset north for the compass, in the "Points" image, go to Render Transform and just edit the position in Transform >> Translation to the desired value.
Thank you so much, I tried it on 5.3.2 and it works like a charm! you are brilliant ! the math went over my head, but I hope to add print steps in between and try to understand how it works, for now just going to have fun with my game.
hey quick question, how'd you get it to work on 5.3.2? I can't find the follow camera variable used at 4:59.
Thanx alot. This really helped.
For those who struggle to align the compass with the real north in your project: inside the function "SetDirection" add the node "SetRelativeRotation" to the variable "Rotation" and choose an adequate Z angle to shift the compass bar according to your need. Took me around a week to discover it. maybe because I´m a noob :D
Hey can you please expand on this? Set relative rotation on what exactly? Really would appreciate elaboration on this thank you
Thanks for this tutorial, it was really useful.
One thing I did slightly differently was to set the Alignment to 0.5 for both X and Y on the compass image. This centres it within the compass canvas panel, as such, I was then able to remove two of those magic numbers that were added (the 2700 and the -30).
Would be nice to get a solid fix for the cardinal positions / sun position so that all of these aligned correctly and were using the same settings, rather than perhaps rotating the skybox / editing the compass image.
Thanks again though, appreciate your efforts :)
I was looking for the same thing. You'll just have to make your own UI to set X=0 or Y=0 to North
THANK YOU! Managed to get a compass into my existing hud just following your tutorial!
hey this was so handy and i was able to get it to work with moving enemy's by turning the objective marker in to its own widget and using interfaces and for each loops to assign an icon to each enemy at begin play and assigning the enemy location to each widget using interfaces and timers by events the end result was very effective and didn't drop my frames at all only thing i had trouble with was the fact that my camera is offset from the player so it took some work arounds to get the icons to display at the right times.
Thanks for the sweet tutorial! On a side note my project includes switchable 1st/3rd person cameras and when I use a branch in the construction script to feed the currently active camera into the Set Rotation it creates 2 instances of the compass, one for each camera. So weird. If I use the 3rd person camera alone for Set Rotation it shows one compass and works correctly for both cameras.
Brilliant tutorial. Going to make a diegetic version that sits within the game world. Thanks for posting :)
Thanks bro.Hope you are safe in these times
Thank You for this Tutorial.
With best wishes from Belarus! ))
So years later, from 4.21 and 5.3, after encountering the same issue where the Points image disappeared, encountered the same issue in ue5.3. Removing the default .5 alignment on the Points image worked!
Awesome Tutorial. Took a little work to get mine working correctly with an eastern rising sun but after that it works very well and is very clean. Much appreciated and keep it up!
How did you manage that?
finally, someone who knows how to explain why they are doing what they are doing while they are doing it. instead of " just click this and put this here , dont worry just do it"
what a fantastic and simple tutorial, nice thank you. subbed
Thank you for the kind words! :)
@@underscore00 i do have one question, when character dies and respawns this error occurs *** Blueprint Runtime Error: "Accessed None trying to read property Rotation". Node: Return Node Graph: CheckNavPoint Function: Check Nav Point Blueprint: Compass_HUD
i really enjoyed this tutorial it was easy to follow and very well done
Thank you! I'm glad you liked it :)
@@underscore00 you're welcome i was adding a compass to my game that i am building it is a JRPG, FPS, and Parkour hybrid the mechanics i use from FPS are a minimap and an overshield to protect the players health
Hello. So at 12:10 you are casting to player character on every tick? Why not take a player reference at widget event construct? Or use again the event by timer for the nav point check too, like you did for the compass I wonder
(btw I think this is the best skyrim like compass tutorial on youtube)
For UE5 you have to set the smaller canvas pannel to CLip to Bounds as well or the clipping wont work
That's what he did in the video 😬
Thanks for the video!! it was really helpful!!
Edit: Turns out that was not the problem. I had the timer function set to 0.01 and not 0.001. It was working, just very slowly lol.
Help? The "Target Follow Camera" won't work. When I try to search it up nothing with the word "follow" comes up. I have multiple cameras set up for my first person player character, and have different names for each camera. My third person camera is named "TPCamera", and my first person one is named "FirstPersonCamera" and with all of this I used the First Person Template.
Is there a quick way to orient the compass differently? i want north to be a different actual direction cause im just now implementing this on top of previous work done..
hi, did you find a solution for this ? i would be interested too
So The compass stops rotating when I die, and When I respawn the compass stops working altogether.
I've got an issue with mine where when I look too far up or down with my camera the objective marker disappears, it comes back when I'm looking center but I would still like to fix it
Any way I can add an offset to the compass texture? Right now when the player's world rotation is 0, the compass is at SW and not North.
The quickest way is to rotate the skybox until it lines up, but you could also directly edit the compass image so the coordinates line up
I also thought about this problem and found a very simple solution -
In the "Set Direction" function (Compass widget) add a "Float + Float" after the "GetWorldRotation" , connect in all together and calibrate however you want it :)
It's a late reply but hopefully will help others in the future
probably calculate the change in rotation for the directional light and add that value to world rotation
Thanks a lot for using good programming practices. Not many people do it in their tutorials
Amazing tutorial!
Very good tutorial but how do we add new objectives as they come up? Does not seem so flexible
I had to use `SetRenderTransform` instead. No big deal but I had to divide the float by two so the compass would rotate properly. I'll add an image of my blueprints for reference. pbs.twimg.com/media/EM10YNMU4AIWlK1?format=jpg&name=small
Thanks for the update! I just tried this and it works perfectly - The initial discrepency could be because I made this video with 4.18 and there's been like 6 point releases since then. Anyway, thanks for the solution
Tried this but I can't seem to get it to work right.
@@Wicksta473 take a screenshot of your blueprint and email it to me. Maybe I can help.
@@underscore00 Tried the other guys solution. At first I couldn't connect the Slot as Canvas Slot Node's Return Value to the Set Render Translation's Target Node. I eventually realized I could just connect Points directly to the Set Render Translation's Target Node. Got past that hurdle. Then when I test it now appears to cut out any compass points from SE to North while rotate clockwise, in the counter-clockwise direction from North to South-East also disappear.
My speculation was it has something to do with the CheckIfBehind function we made. Tried changing that to a less than or equal to 140 degrees but that didn't fix the compass not showing the south or west directions.
Ok, I moved the points position on the HUD Widget and something about that is what causing issues with the compass cutting off part of the points.I double checked the clipping, the Clipping on the Points part of the widget is set to clip to bounds. Alright well I'm tapped out for now but the compass is 75% working lol.
@@skjoldgames Alright sounds good. Any idea which part in particular you would like to see? My blueprint looks identical to your example. My attempts thus far only point me in the direction of the compass widget having an issue. As I rotate my third person character camera during testing the compass moves, and the point at which it starts cutting off for me, with where I placed it in the widget is around the Southeast to Northwest Cardinal Directions Rotate the camera past SE on the compass. You can briefly see S as you rotate towards the SE direction but then it cuts S off the compass and fails to show the S, SW, West directions on the compass anyways as you rotate the camera. Once you wrap around towards the Northwest direction the compass begins to work properly again. I first speculated the Check if behind with the less than 140° statement was culling 140° behind the character as I started. That didn't seem to be the issue however. I'm using 4.21.2 of Unreal Engine. So following Unreal's Degree Notions this dead zone on the compass appears to be somewhere between 180° (directly behind the player) and 360°. If that makes sense.
All very nice. But, how would you set North to a specific direction in the game?
You'd have to edit the compass image and rearrange the N S E W letters. You can also rotate the sky sphere to reposition the sun.
You could also add an offset to the front of the rotation (before the * -1.0 operation). And Skjold Game Studio suggestion below to use Set Translation instead of Set Position is a great improvement to this swell tutorial
hi great tutorial - how do you change size of the compass image, when i use a image of width 2048 i get gaps when compass translates thx
Thanks! There's a float value in the HUD blueprint (in the function) that sets the 'loop' point of the compass. Experiment with your maths, you'll find the right values :)
@@underscore00 i dont find it can u help me please ?
No worries! It's the subtract value in the 'Set Direction' function. Just keep tweaking that number until the compass image fits neatly :)
I'm having a very odd behavior.
Upon first starting play, the quest indicator appears over the correct location, and it does rotate with the compass correctly as I look around.
But as I actually move around inn the level, the quest marker doesn't move to match. It stays pointed in whatever direction it was originally, as though my objective is moving with me in space.
I can't figure out what may be causing it, the rotation is clearly working correctly so I'm not sure why location wouldn't be.
Good tutorial. Five years after your video I ask you: How can I make the compass rotate on an artificial horizon? (I'm really new to this and learning from videos). Google translator helped you understand me...
How can we orient it according to a marker in world? Let's say pointing to North Marker present in Level?
Hi thank you for this tutorial ! I know is 6 years old and it works on UE 5.3. I've noticed that if my character looks down at the ground, the objective is no longer displayed, and the same happens if he looks too far up at the sky. I also deleted the -2700 node because it was only displaying half the points.
Did you Ever do a Upgrade on this compass ? i need More NavPoints and dynamic .
Wow you are awesome m8 thank you for this tutorial
Hello,
I did everything exactly as in the video, unfortunately it does not work for me.
the compass rotates, but probably so fast that you can not see it.
I already use the Unreal Engine 5.1.
I hope you can help me.
I am using als4 and the follow camera thing doesn't show.. How can I use it?
What changes you have to make if you don't want the entire width of the screen but only place the compass in the right bottom hand corner with a specified width?
Love this tutorial, but I cannot get the sizing to work right. My compass cuts off part of it and it jumps from NE to W. Tried using different values in the function but nothing gets it right. I even made my image 5400 to match yours. I'm also on UE5.1.
I am having the same issue.
EDIT: Solved it. I was getting yaw from Get Actor Eyes View Point instead of the yaw directly from the camera (since I had multiple pawns in my project, I wanted a way to access the camera rotation that was agnostic of the pawn class) and this puts out a value between 0 and 360. I suspect the math done in the video expects a yaw between -180 and 180. The fix is to simply subtract 180 degrees from the Yaw value when you get it from the camera rotation, before the rest of the calculations.
I also recommend the approach suggested by @rob_meade to align the points to 0.5, 0.5 so you don't need the 2700 or -30 magic numbers.
so i have this set up with another character but once the marker goes too far off the canvas panel it disapears, is there any way that the orange marker can be seen on the compass on the far right or left so its always in the canvas panel instead of being hidden?
Thanks for the compass! But I have an issue as reported by Arceah. Using a third person camera, when you move the view far up, or far down, the marker disappears. Only appears when you have the camera leveled near the horizon. Any fix with this?
11 months later, Did you find a fix?
Hey I was wondering how you can remove the navpoint from the viewport once your character reaches the destination, or how to add new navpoints through trigger boxes?
For anyone else that has the same question, you can do an overlap sphere and destroy that navpoint actor when you reach it. Additionally, you can spawn a navpoint actor from a trigger box.
@@MrCveedub I attempted to do this, (by spawning an actor and random target points through level blueprint) and the compass shows an Icon for the actor in question even before its spawned? Once the actual actor spawns, the compass corrects itself, but do you know how to get rid of the 'ghost icon' that exists on the compass before its appropriated actor spawns in?
@@MrCveedub I think I figured out what it is doing- the objective point seems to be guiding me to the 0.0, 0.0, 0.0 location of the level until the actor it is tied to spawns in. Only once the actor (that its tied to) spawns in does it correctly shift to its rightful target. How do I get the objective point to be non existent until the actual actor its intended to lead the player to spawns in?
@@CommanderColson I only watched the first 10 minutes as I wanted to see how he did the compass rotation. My response to OP was just going off what I already know.
Here's my solution :
1. go to the Your HUD Widget BP, into the graph editor, and create a new function call it -hide objective-, go the event graph, and connect the new function to the event tick.
2. inside this function Get player character -> cast to your character -> as character get nav point -> vector Equal to vector - > branch if true -> get objective -> set visibility -> hidden
3. go to your objective bp, in my case its a Weapon, When i pick it up --> Get player character -> cast to your character -> as character set nav point and leave it 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
You can implement it with upon overlap it will also work.
hope it helps somebody! i know i hate getting stuck on these things.
can i use this if my player character does not have a camera? My player is a first person character. So i cant find the follow camera variable
Same goes for me as well! I can't find "follow camera variable". I am using UE5 btw...what about you?
I realize I'm late to the party here, so I don't expect much. I am working on a project which allows the player to switch between TPV and FPV using a keybind. Using this compass, which works perfectly while in TPV, (as it uses the equivalent of the follow camera), but it stops rotating at all while the camera for FPV is active. There are two cameras that the view switches between, but the TPV camera does not move. Any ideas as to why this breaks in FPV? Thanks.
Hey, trying to adapt this to a default first person character and as mentioned below, I don't have the get follow camera node. I try to get first person camera as well, the compass displays but doesn't change. Am I missing something? Thanks!
same here
Mine simply will not scroll. At all. I’m going to try and figure out why, but I have followed your steps perfectly multiple times and it simply will not scroll, the points stay static.
Mine will NOT loop, no matter how many times I rewatch this (Blank spot with West).
Trying to replicate this in a firstpersonclass to understand unreal engine more, I came across the error where 'First person character' does not inherit from 'Player Controller'. What is the solution to this? Everything else seemed fine until this part
Your player pawn/character and your player controller are different actors in the game framework. Im guessing youre using a 'get player controller' node? Youll need to cast to your player controller from that node. If you're using a 'get player pawn' or 'get player character' node, then you can cast to your First Person Character.
thanks very much, very clearly spoken and well presented
I know this comment is super late to this party but is there a way to align the compass with a specific north vector? I'm modding a game and this would be a very useful tutorial if not for that one thing.
The compass just disappears completely beyond NW and leftward, and the art does not loop even though I checked that Loop box on the timer by function. SE floats of the screen perfectly fine when I rotate to the right, but NW does not come after it, nothing does. (Version 4.21)
EDIT: Found the issue. the "points" image or texture cannot be perfectly centered for some reason. After setting its X position to a random value manually, it works perfectly fine!
I had a similar issue, I think I accidentally changed the size of the image within the designer.. To correct it, all I did was change the 'Points' image X dimensions within the designer to 5400 and it worked a treat!
@@JenkaYT So years later, encountered the same issue in ue5.3. My solution above and yours did not solve the problem. Removing the default .5 alignment on the points image worked!
can we get a tutorial on like meteors falling and destroying architecture? something weird but cool to implement. Also, Love the tutorials!!
Yeah I could probably do that :) I've got a few videos planned first, but I'll definitely look at it!
This is mostly working without a hitch, but I am having an issue where the Check If Behind function seems to be returning totally incorrect values.
I don't math hard enough to understand how to fix it. The one difference between my code and yours is that my normalize function on the vectors takes in a Tolerance argument. Not sure if that's breaking anything or not.
hey can you tell how to do this in multiplayer as it is not working when I'm playing as client.
Followed your tutorial which is very nice btw, however I ran into an error. While panning the camera 360' I notice that SE jumps to SW. So if I'm facing North and spin 180' I'm still facing North instead of South. I'm using a texture that is 2048x64, but I even re-scaled it in Gimp to 5400 and still have the same issue. Also true north seems to be a bit off center, so as to face North and run straight, I'm actually running at an angle. Any tips on how to smooth this out is greatly appreciated. I'm on v4.19 btw.
I get the same issue...trying to solve...
Did you ever solve this? I am having the same issue.
Great tutorial i tried it in my MP project but when a player dies i get the following error "Blueprint Runtime Error: Attempted to access FollowCamera via property Rotation, but FollowCamera is pending kill from function: 'Set Direction' from node: Set Position in graph: Set Direction in object: Compass_HUD with description: Attempted to access FollowCamera via property Rotation, but FollowCamera is pending kill " Any thoughts on how to correct this ?
Hi, thanks :) I think this is happening because the compass HUD is still trying to work after the player is killed, so it's looking for a camera that doesn't exist. One way to fix this would be to set up some code to deactivate the HUD after the player dies. Next time I'm at my PC I'll see if I can hack something together. Hope that helps!
Did you find a fix?
@@BH-zx8ns Yeah on the players death i got it to remove all widgets which solved it.
Why not just use the visibility node to hide or show the ui element?
I don't have follow camera variable......help me please
It's just the name of the camera component in your player pawn - so if you're not using the default third-person template, its going to be named something different.
@@underscore00 I'm using default third person camera
If you drag off from the cast node and type 'get' you should see a list of variables and components in the pawn. Just make sure you're casting to the pawn you're using and you should see your camera there!
Thank you !!!
What are those magic numbers? 700 (for the objective) and 10 (for the points) ? 2700 makes sense i guess, but the rest are really obscure.
Can you make a tutorial on landscape changing its shape on blueprints? Like Explosion craters...
thx so much man
When I set the compass for a character and I start with the Event Construct everytime it fails to cast the character...And I don't get why
Can you show me a screenshot of your blueprint? Sounds like you might be casting to the wrong thing.
I have 2 characters(for now) so i tried to cast one of them to test the compass,i got the player character,and then the follow camera.After a few times that it didn't work I tried to print a string if the cast fails,and it keep failing....with both of the characters
Weird. It could be that you're using more than one character. Are you working on a multiplayer game? This method isn't optimized for multiplayer.
@@underscore00 Nope,singleplayer,but the Player can choose which character he/she wants to use for the game.And i have no clue about why it fails to cast both of them
i'm having the same issue. when i run it on event tick (inside the widget blueprint) it works fine. i only have 1 player character but the cast is always failing. any luck resolving this?
really intresting but the compass just stays as a image and is not moving
Thank
I cant use the compass png
can i just make the compass in the main player HUD or do i have to make a seperate one for the compass?
i need to say thank u so much for sharing this with us !!
this is probably the best compass i ever found on the internet. i think the other oldschool real compass designs they are colourize and round is not looking good :/ i hate that kind of compasses..
this compass design here is basic and the fuckin best !! i put these into my 75qkm landscape map with megascans realistic textures and all that stuff an its look absolutley amazing....
the only point on this video i found not so good is that you work in your speed ..same as when u work alone. fix it fast and make it happen... but the problem is u make a video and other people want to learn from it.. better without making every 2 minutes stop and rewind forword and all that shit.
BUT.. thats only finetuning ;)
hope we see more from u
was a good pace for me.. i think thats dependent on the viewer
@@nathanward5195 absolutely yea.. at this time i was an absolute beginner. Now the things are different. Now i follow much much faster.
Great Tutorial! Loved It! Just wished the compass followed the true cardinal directions. My player faces east at game start but the compass readout thinks he is facing the South West. Thought it has something to do with Unreal not following the standard unit circle. The one you learn in school for geometry which starts at 0°, or 360° at the East direction then goes counter clockwise to 90° North, 180° for West and 270° for South. Unreal seems to go clockwise 90° at south 180 west 270 north and back to 360 for east.
Thank you! Yeah it is a little strange how UE4 handles 'world' rotations, but for a quick and easy fix, you can simply rotate the skybox or adjust your directional light to match with the compass. Alternatively, I think I could have spent a little more care in placing the N, S, W and E on my compass image ;)
@@underscore00 Nah man your tutorial was great, I've probably just goofed up somewhere.
This. The "compass points" texture is off by the equivalent of 135 deg. (Assumes N is at 0 deg. Print the camera yaw to see the actual degrees.) I just went into my paint app and offset the texture to be in the correct place. (N should be in the center horizontally.)
But, great tutorial! Saved me a lot of time and effort... Nice job!
Ooo I saw it down at the bottom watching this that you ask the person to see their game because of you like to see their games in action.
8months, first programming/ 3D graphics experience.
Most assets are made myself with some textures being taken and of course some stuff off store (like the procedural houses)
drive.google.com/file/d/11WmPC0aj9DxiXXPhpw0TWoIiMYGIG05s/view?usp=drivesdk
it's been updated quite a bit since then but I have some junk in the file to prevents me from compiling a new version. And for now I need them while I complete a few things. So don't feel like dealing with removal/addition or excluding just for a package.
Not much play yet but the base is mostly there
That's awesome Cultusfit! I'll download it asap and check it out :D
@@underscore00 it'll probably crash 😭
Works on my phone (from what I've read developer mode matters)
And my buddy S8
But some my friends won't even install
I'd appreciate some videos for mobile specific stuff.
Skysphere doesn't seem work right, mobile lighting/post process, particle effects on mobile: my water looks black my fireballs become green ugh
@@underscore00 oh no! Updated it because I was worried about you seeing it broken and my level streaming isn't launching properly! Doesn't pull the loading screen and does an empty level with no character when you hit start game!!!! 😭
haha thats ok! Let me know when its all good and I'll check it out then :)
could solve the problem, was a twister. :)
Thanks for tutorial!
I have a question: My map mimics Google Maps 3D scenary and my compass points to West while Google Maps points to north at the same direction...how can i fix that?
I don't know if anyone has a better fix but for the issue that the marker disappears if you looked up or down, a quick and dirty fix is at - check if behind function - you have two vector inputs, object and camera, disconnect camera from normalize then right-click the camera input and choose split struct also right-click on the normalize vector and choose split struct again, now only connect x and y nodes, don't connect z and that's it, hope that would help anyone who is still having this issue :) .
Great tip! Thanks for sharing :)
WELL ... 3 DAYS GONE AND I STILL DONT FIND THE FOLLOW CAMERA
fixed no follow camera lol
@@TrippyPa I can't find it anywhere.. Where did you find it?
stick it to the player on screen instead of the camera
One Point - not good, multy point wayt?
savage
Anyone found a WORKING way to control the north offset?
You can't with the provided compass texture as points are offset. Use this one instead and be sure that your compass texture is at 0 on X axis in the widget designer. drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B3uULhL-L-aeQzR1NFF5YWVqYkU
Even if it´s too late but maybe it´s worth to mention my solution: inside the function "SetDirection" add a node to the variable "Rotation" called "SetRelativeRotation" and choose an adequate Z angle to shift the compass bar according to your need.
@@eydhjhsn Hey man, could you explain a bit more, I don't seem to make it work using your solution. Thank you so much!
I love this and will be using it in my game!!! I have one question though, can you make it point to the center of a shrinking battle royal zone? If so this would be the most perfect thing ever!!
Thanks man! :) Send me a link to your game, I'd love to see it in action :D
Should be easy peasy to have it point to the middle of the circle! Off the top of my head, just make an actor with nothing in it (so it's invisible in-game) and set it to the location of the middle of the circle. All you'd need to do is add some code to your blueprints to change the actor's location whenever the circle changes.
On Facebook I have a page that shows the build of my game its under Area13 Offical Page
You make Area 13? That's badass, im following the page now :)
I think you are thinking of area 13 games. Which is the name of of a game development company and that is not mine. Mine is facebook.com/Area13-Official-Site-252480648841345/
I am having a little problem with this.When I added it to my my main game it shows on screen and moves but it will not turn completely. It will go S.W to W. and back to S.W (no others will show) and I am sure I have it just like you do. Any help would be greatly appreciated!!
I runing to issue, the objective display on screen even its not on the viewport and if i put the actor more then one it display only one of them
Love your super instructional tutorials.
Wondering how you would go about offsetting the compass or establishing an actual north.
Following some of your other tutorials we essentially discover that the player starts the default game modes always facing East and looking towards the sunrise (ruclips.net/video/x3xBtPIVWEs/видео.html - when this is applied to 1st person or 3rd person template sunrise is in front).
Obviously if the character faces the sunrise, then north is 90 degrees to the left.
How would you go about implementing this to where you could also change the position of North at will?
I did some more basic math given what the tutorial teaches, figure I'd share it. It's probably not ideal, but it seems to work fine on far off north.
Paste bin kind of glitched, that's a Find look at rotation with the start as World Location of player mesh, and the target as North.
The actor forward vector and rotation from x vector is used to get the direction the character faces and subtract the inverted result of the look at rotation from it. The value is then normalized and fed into the range for clamping.
blueprintue.com/blueprint/75vh-doi/
Got this to work flawlessly at any distance in the end. Remove the *-1 and proceed without, and perform the ages old "tweak the texture" magic trick.
For whatever reason my compass texture wants to be 180 opposite of the math I shared in order to always point north no matter what. Can't say I understand this behavior at all yet, but rotating a round texture is a pretty easy fix.
not working
The image cuts off at each end. Nice try though. Maybe something changed in 2 years and this tut is invalid.
try scaling the image width and setting to repeat horizontal
what to do if i want to reduce the compass?
Thanks a fucking lot thid helped me a lot!
how change the size hud?
when I adjust the size for myself in the hud in the game it disappears at about 180 degrees of rotation
I cant get an Event BeginPlay in my third person character
Are you sure you're in the event graph and not the construction script?
@@underscore00 Yep. I was in the event graph just for some reason it wasn't comming up. I just had to close it and open it back up again. Thanks for the feedback 😄
try event tick instead
ruclips.net/video/5K1h996h5Lk/видео.html EDIT* found the solution (using the dot product between the normalize2d and the right vector of the camera, which you had us setup tin the checknavpoint function, and using greater than 0 for one direction and less than for the other)! Thanks for this !really cool, I even got multiple objectives working with it, but I have a great problem I have not been able to solve, I made 2 boxes, one on the left and one on the right so that when the objective marker is not in view it at least goes to one of those boxes to indicate in which direction i need to turn in order to locate that objective, but the problem is i can not solve how to figure out if a object is on the left or right of me, ive tried a lot of calculations for what i thought would be something really simple and using things like find look at rotation just yields different results depending on the height (since this is a flying game im making), do you have any clues on what i should try?