Community Project | Cardinal Menu System Instructions, Help, and Discussion
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Cardinal Menu has been released for Unreal Engine 4.19 today. This update now includes Steam listen server pings! (As requested)
The video on the first post has been updated to reflect the 4.19 version of the project.
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Does this support Inviting friends directly via Steam?
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Guest said in Community Project | Cardinal Menu System Instructions, Help, and Discussion:
Does this support Inviting friends directly via Steam?
At the moment, it doesn't. I might look into adding that feature in the future. There is a Steam friends list in game, though.
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Thanks. I got an issue where if I am not hloding down mouse1 I cannot look or move around in the game when spawned jn the level.
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Guest said in Community Project | Cardinal Menu System Instructions, Help, and Discussion:
Thanks. I got an issue where if I am not hloding down mouse1 I cannot look or move around in the game when spawned jn the level.
Are you playing the packaged / built demo or in-editor? Windows 10? It sounds like maybe the window isn't selected? I'm not sure what is wrong on your end.
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How does one go about opening the In Game menu? I got it to open biut then it would not close or return to the game for example. I do not purely understand the logic here..can you elaborate a little on how this works?
I saw you made something on the M keypress but what exactly happens there or how do we implement this?
Sorry for all the trouble but I am new to UE4.
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Actually I guess the open/close menu is implemented in the test level you included with the menu itself. I'll try looking there for the implementation and then report back if I still can't get it to work.
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hi
i cannot open the ingame menu or even if it opens it wont work as intended. how do we add and remove it from the viewport? thanks
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Guest said in Community Project | Cardinal Menu System Instructions, Help, and Discussion:
hi
i cannot open the ingame menu or even if it opens it wont work as intended. how do we add and remove it from the viewport? thanks
The blueprint ThirdPersonPlayerController has an event called CreateinGameMenuWidget on construction.
There's also an action binding that opens and closes the window in the same blueprint. Basically, that action binding flip flops from showing and hiding the widget while also showing and hiding the mouse cursor.
The blueprint's location:
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I can't seem to open the file, i generate visual studio file before opening it but it still says to generate the file. Im currently trying it with 4.19.2
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said in Community Project | Cardinal Menu System Instructions, Help, and Discussion:
I can't seem to open the file, i generate visual studio file before opening it but it still says to generate the file. Im currently trying it with 4.19.2
I'll check if it's a problem with 4.19.2, currently I'm still using 4.19.0 because I build from source. You can try downloading the new version of advanced sessions plugin. It looks like mordentral released a 4.19.2 version. Here's the link: https://forums.unrealengine.com/community/community-content-tools-and-tutorials/41043-advanced-sessions-plugin
Edit: I was just able to open the project freshly cloned from the repository using 4.19.2's launcher edition on Visual Studio 2015. I'll try the compressed download copy next.
Edit2: I'm getting strange problems with the downloaded project and 4.19.2 as well. I'm not sure what the problem is yet. I'll get back to you.
Edit3: Turns out I have an issue with Windows Search Service and Win10's built in explorer's unzip program. It didn't decompress all the files. The downloaded version of the project compiled on 4.19.2 with VS2015 without issues.
I'm not sure what your problem is. Are you using Visual Studio 2017? I've had problems with it in the past.
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If i install it to a new project from the zip you give how do i change the name of the game from Cardinal Menu to my own project name?
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@playstationkings You should be able to find a tutorial on how to do this. At first glance this seems pretty accurate, but I didn't try to duplicate it. https://answers.unrealengine.com/questions/242407/renaming-a-c-project.html
Sometimes there are small changes in the engine that require a bit of tweaking to the directions. Basically find any reference to the old name and replace it with your name. Either in the code or in the project filenames.
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@thaddeus said in Community Project | Cardinal Menu System Instructions, Help, and Discussion:
When i go to friends list or network in game menu it says connection failed how do i fix this i made a new project just with your files like the steps said so dont know why it ant working. if i hit shift+tab it shows me steam but says im playing spacewar? if thats working shouldnt it work on the friends list and network and how do i hook the sever side up to steam severs with my own name not spacewars.
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@playstationkings Spacewar is the Steam test app ID 480 game. You'd need to get a steam app id. "Spacewar" is also region locked, so sometimes your friends won't appear correctly. It's only for testing steam integration, not to launch a game.
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Ok is there a way we can talk one on one? I went ahead and paid for my steam partnership and so i can make games for steam and get my own storefront and app-id but need some help setting up the the project. Do you have a chat we can use to talk.. email is to slow want to get this project moving but need some help with it but we can get more in to the details in a chat.
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@playstationkings What details do you want to go into? Troubleshooting is discussed here so other people can read through the posts and find answers that might have already been addressed.
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Ok i made a UE4 Source build on 4.19.2 i made a project and add your menu to it following HOW TO IMPORT CARDINAL MENU TO YOUR PROJECT guide. I got the game to play as standalone game and when i play and hit shift+tab i got it to work with my app-id now it shows my game name instead of SpaceWar but when i go to friends list or network or any thing that has to do with a server it says fail to connect how can i fix this.
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@playstationkings So your hosted server shows up on the list of servers but when a client clicks to connect to the server it fails to connect?
Off the top of my head it's likely one of two problems:
- BP_GameInstance isn't set as the default Game Instance Class in Project Settings - Maps & Modes (Located at: Blueprint'/Game/Cardinal/MainMenu/Blueprints/BP_GameInstance.BP_GameInstance')
- Or a firewall is blocking connection to the host.
You're using two different steam accounts to test a client joining the host, right?
To help troubleshooting, I'd take a look at the project settings in an unmodified version of the project. I've forgotten to set some of them before. I've also seen the values randomly change too and I'm not sure why.
If you're running the game in editor and not a packaged / built copy of the game, make sure you're playing as "Standalone Game" and not "Play In Editor."
Also, as a side note: In WidgetBlueprint'/Game/Cardinal/MainMenu/Blueprints/UI/PlayGamePanels/HostGame.HostGame' is where the Steam session properties are set. The server browser looks for those properties when making the list of hosted games. That's where you can modify those settings.
Maybe that helps? There's a lot of blueprints going on in this project. It might take a while to get a good idea of what all is going on but it should still be a lot easier than building your own from the ground up. Let me know if you figure out what was wrong. If you find a problem in the unmodified version of the project, let me know and I'll be able to better look into it. Goodluck
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