Community Project | Cardinal Menu System Instructions, Help, and Discussion
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@Thaddeus-Delude
Thank you for the help
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Why is the current number 1? There are 2 people in my room. bug?
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Why is the current number 1? There are 2 people in my room. bb bug?
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@like3727 said in Community Project | Cardinal Menu System Instructions, Help, and Discussion:
Why is the current number 1? There are 2 people in my room. bb bug?
The menu system has no game play implemented features and as a result the player count isn't updated. You'll have to implement your own session updating blueprints. It would be fairly easy. You just update the session information when the number of players change.
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How do I update this session information? I see in the node that UpdateSession uses this node to update the information? Is it updated on the server side?!
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Hello, can you provide a solution? How do I update the current number? For example, the current number of players is 3. How can I update this? The current number is 3
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I always failed to use updatesession. What's the reason for this? 急急急在线等待，请作者看看
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作者 没搞懂你为什么不直接把这些功能搞好呢？搞的云里雾里的，不太清楚哈，你自己也说很简单，既然那么简单，就加上去啊，多省事呀
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Updatesession failed to update continuously in lan... Is this right? Or BUG?
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When I use updatesession on the server, the client can't find the host server,..why
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好了 我自己解决了 谢谢。。。
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@like3727 said in Community Project | Cardinal Menu System Instructions, Help, and Discussion:
Updatesession failed to update continuously in lan... Is this right? Or BUG?
The menu uses Advanced Sessions Plugin - https://forums.unrealengine.com/showthread.php?69901-Advanced-Sessions-Plugin
I'm looking into the problem. 我是汉语初学者。 不好意思
Edit: Hang on, there might be a deeper issue here. My mistake, sorry. I'll post how to get player counts to work. I just tested it in LAN. I need to test Steam as well. For LAN, you can use "Get Max Players" and "Get Current Players" inside "WidgetBlueprint'/Game/Cardinal/MainMenu/Blueprints/UI/PlayGamePanels/ServerList.ServerList'" Functions "BuildInternetListenSearchResults" and "BuildLANSearchResults." I think there are still bugs with this feature in Dedicated Server builds.
Edit2: Steam doesn't update playercounts correctly using this method. Session Update and Session Extra Settings method may work though. I'll try that in a bit.
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Thank you very much. I've already solved the problem. As you said, I'll update session in the game.
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@Thaddeus-Delude Hello, buddy, do you have a QQ or a WeiXin? Add a regular connection!
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The project has been released for Unreal Engine 4.16 today. Major changes for this release includes making the Escape Key always open InGameMenu despite binds, the project now updates the number of players currently in session, and fixes the default binds not working when first compiling the project.
Also, Victory Plugin and GamepadUMGPlugin still use a TargetInfo argument instead of the new ReadOnlyTargetRules argument and as a result they throw errors. Rama will likely fix this issue soon. LoadingScreen plugin had compile issues in 4.16 and a version a few commits earlier was used instead. The project was updated to use ReadOnlyTargetRules arguments.
Please post if you find any bugs.
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@Thaddeus why ping is 9999?help me
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@Thaddeus why steam ping is 9999???head big....
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@like3727 said in Community Project | Cardinal Menu System Instructions, Help, and Discussion:
@Thaddeus why ping is 9999?help me
Ping isn't implemented in online session. This is on the engine side of things. It may be implemented in the future by Epic. You can program your own solution or another way around it is to fetch the server's external IP, put the IP in the session info, and use PingPlugin at https://github.com/DescendentStudios/PingPlugin.
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Hi, I'm on Unreal 4.16.1 with the most recent version of the menu system. I followed the directions to import this into an existing project, but have many unknown reference errors. One for example is in the MainMenu widget BP: "Menu Button Line", "Get All Buttons", "Un Select All" are all unknown variables/functions. I could start over and try again in case I made a mistake, but maybe you could easily tell what I have missed. Where are these functions defined? Thanks for any help.
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Okay, I understand a bit better now. I guess the "Menu Button Line" does not exist because the RadioButtonLine BP contains errors. All of the construct functions in the widgets have their class undefined. I'm not sure how this happened, but everything is all messed up now. I will try to reimport the files.
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Alf said in Community Project | Cardinal Menu System Instructions, Help, and Discussion:
Hi, I'm on Unreal 4.16.1 with the most recent version of the menu system. I followed the directions to import this into an existing project, but have many unknown reference errors. One for example is in the MainMenu widget BP: "Menu Button Line", "Get All Buttons", "Un Select All" are all unknown variables/functions. I could start over and try again in case I made a mistake, but maybe you could easily tell what I have missed. Where are these functions defined? Thanks for any help.
I've had these problems a few times in this project and in others and I'm not sure exactly what caused them. Sometimes going into the BP file and pressing compile fixes the issues. Sometimes I have to reimport things. Other times it's because of different engine versions. You said you used 4.16, so I don't think that would be the issue. You can try compiling the BPs. Sometimes it's easier to re-create the variables or drop the nodes again. It kind of depends on how many were not found. If I find an answer, I will post it here.
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Alf said in Community Project | Cardinal Menu System Instructions, Help, and Discussion:
u Button Line" does not exist because the RadioButtonLine BP contains errors. All of the construct functions in the widgets have their class undefined. I'm not sure how this hap
Can you open RadioButtonLine BP and fix the errors? It may just need a re-compile. It's located at WidgetBlueprint'/Game/Cardinal/MainMenu/Blueprints/UI/Elements/RadioButtonsLine.RadioButtonsLine'. I've had weird issues with importing and exporting. If you have to re-arrange directory structures, I move things in the starting project first before importing them to minimize weird issues. You can try packaging CardinalMenu before importing first. Maybe that will help.
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Thanks, I believe my problem was from not retaining the directory structure. I used the migrate function to transfer the folders from the example project, and all is working fine now.
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Alf said in Community Project | Cardinal Menu System Instructions, Help, and Discussion:
Thanks, I believe my problem was from not retaining the directory structure. I used the migrate function to transfer the folders from the example project, and all is working fine now.
Good to hear it worked. Thanks for reporting back.
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KRushin said in Community Project | Cardinal Menu System Instructions, Help, and Discussion:
Great work! I have been playing around it and works quite well! Out of curiosity, have you gotten this to work for a dedicated server? While i have gotten dedicated servers working in other scenarios ( Null OSS) can't seem to get one to work with Steam.
Thanks! I haven't gotten it to work. I tried for a bit. It's quite complicated to get steam online sessions to work with dedicated servers. For the project I'm working on, I fetch the server's external IP then I use VaRest plugin to write the IP to a simple database (CouchDB) with a time stamp. Then I have clients fetch the list of servers on the database and filter out ones that are more than X minutes old. I have live servers write their current times every few minutes. This way there is a basic list of live servers the clients can fetch. They connect using the open "ip" console command. It makes the server list lightning fast. CouchDB is pretty cool but difficult to use. There are other similar database systems out there. I've seen some people use MySQL. I think that's resource overkill personally. Especially if you run a resource limited VPS. JASON and a simple database work well.
I'll release this method once the project is done. I'm hoping, in the mean time, better support for Steam dedicated servers will come out. I don't want to re-invent the wheel. I've tried that in the past only to have the feature come out a bit after I finished it.
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Hi, I downloaded your project files, but when I need to rebuild I get error: "CardinalMenu could not be compiled. Try rebuilding from source manually". I tried on every version of your project, on 3 different pc and no luck, please can you help me? I use Microsoft Visual Studio 2015 Enterprise
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Stefan said in Community Project | Cardinal Menu System Instructions, Help, and Discussion:
Hi, I downloaded your project files, but when I need to rebuild I get error: "CardinalMenu could not be compiled. Try rebuilding from source manually". I tried on every version of your project, on 3 different pc and no luck, please can you help me? I use Microsoft Visual Studio 2015 Enterprise
Do you have this problem on all UE4 projects with source code? I've had this problem for many various reasons in the past. You can try this.
Right click on CardinalMenu.uproject and select Generate Visual Studio project files. It should have created CardinalMenu.sln in the same directory.
Open CardinalMenu.sln
In Solution Explorer (typically on the right) open Games -> CardinalMenu
Right click on CardinalMenu in Solution Explorer and click rebuild.
A log should appear on the bottom and show you errors.
Paste this log here and I'll look at it.Other Possible Solutions
A common problem I get is Visual Studio logs my credentials out for some reason. I have to open Visual Studio and on the top right there's a drop down arrow and it says "An error has occurred and we can no longer retrieve user information for... " I then have to log in. This might be in Community Edition only though. I haven't used the enterprise version of VS 2015. Only older versions.Another problem is the C++ compile add ons might not be included with your install of VS2015. Is this the first project you've used for UE4? Usually this happens when someone first starts messing around with Unreal 4 or they are using a new computer. Here's the solution.
"Visual Studio 2015 (VS2015) doesn't install C++ tooling support by default. When installing VS2015, choose Custom installation and then choose the C++ components that you'll need for your workflow. If you've already installed Visual Studio 2015, choose File > New > Project > C++ to install C++." -
Hi, everyone! Thank you for the excellent work here! I'm learning a lot!
I've integrated the Cardinal menu into my project and I'm having one issue with key bindings. My game has seven action inputs and two of them do not work after remapping for PC. Only three inputs work on an XBOX controller. The working XBOX actions are different than the working PC actions.
I have the defaults setup, actions are in alphabetical order, and I see the Input's swap under project settings.
Any ideas?
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Here are where the controls are stored.
Input.ini and in your project configs
The DefaultActionBinds in ControlsSettingsDetails located at /Game/Cardinal/MainMenu/Blueprints/UI/SettingsPanels/ControlsSettingsDetails
DefaultAxisBinds located in RAMA-AxisControls at /Game/Cardinal/MainMenu/Blueprints/UI/SettingsPanels/RAMA-AxisControlsThe order matters to the engine. It should be alphabetical. To my knowledge, nobody has come up with a better method without programming one or using a form of real time binds on every tick such as Mathew Wadstein's BindableKeys system. (Bypassing UE4's method basically)
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Sorry I couldn't be much more help. I'm out of town for the US holiday weekend. I will be back on Monday and take a look at the input system and see if I find any issues. I need to make the new release for 4.17 as well. Hopefully the plugins have no problems with the new engine. That is why we wait a bit for new releases.
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I'm going to make the instructions more reader friendly next week as well. The forum software's plugin for "spoilers" is no longer working. I was hiding the instructions with dynamic buttons that hide the different instructions settings to make it more readable.
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A few of the plugins are not working for 4.17 yet. It will be a bit before the 4.17 version is released.
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The menu system for Unreal Engine 4.17 has been released. It includes an in game return to game button and a debug print to screen fix.
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when i test the project with not run steam , it cant find hostgame list , LAN not work. do you have this issue ?
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have somebody test project with LAN ?
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All of my previous test have worked. I will test it right now.
Edit: Strange, it doesn't appear to be working on Ethernet to WiFi LANs on my network. (Could be related to how my network is set up) I'll check Ethernet to Ethernet. I'm looking into it. I've experienced some cases where certain types of network setups didn't show LAN games or took a long time for them to appear.
I'm looking into Advanced Sessions Plugin and the BP nodes. I'll hopefully have fix tomorrow. Very little has changed in 4.15-4.17 versions.
Edit 2: It works in editor. Looking into network related things.
Edit 3: Standalone works as well. Hmm, looking into possible packaged version configuration file problems.
Edit 4: Packaged LAN search and join works on the same PC when launching two instances. Going to try ethernet via switch LAN on two PCs.
Edit 5: It works on LAN network via wired on a local switch. It did not work on WiFi via WiFi Access Point to a wired client. I don't know why. It must have something to do with how Epic designed the sessions broadcasting over the network. My guess is that there's a broadcast packet that's being blocked by my access point.
Did you try LAN over wired networks? Or did you use WiFi?
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The menu system for Unreal Engine 4.18 has been released.
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@Thaddeus thanks
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@Thaddeus Now there is a problem, your project test, steam, host, other clients do not search or link up, what's the matter? Ask for help
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@Thaddeus Using LAN testing, filtering is invalid
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@like3727
Hmm, I didn't experience that problem. What version did you test? What region of the world are you in? How are you testing it? Are you testing LAN on a wired network or wireless? Separate devices? Did you investigate routers for port forwarding issues with steam? I tested the project locally in the Midwest of the United States and also on a wired switch using laptops and a desktop. Discovering sessions on a LAN can take a while.I wonder if your Steam problem has something to do with the test App ID and what region you are located in? They are region locked to my understanding, meaning you have to test it in the same geographical location unless you have your own App ID. On LAN, were you working on WiFi? LAN uses Epic's default online subsystem and I've had problems with it on some networks depending on how they are configured.
The project uses Advanced Sessions Plugin. Maybe your answer is in there?
As far as filtering goes, it's fairly simple how it works but isn't really used by the example project. It looks at the extra variables passed by the online session and removes them accordingly. It might require a bit tweaking depending on how you want to set up your project. (For example, filtering by maps would require more maps than the test project has.)
Thanks for checking out the project. Hopefully you find something useful about it.
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Hi there, I get this error everytime I try compiling with Visual Studio 2017. It does not let me do so with 2015, it says that the project is incompatible with that Visual Studio version. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank You.
1>------ Build started: Project: UE4, Configuration: BuiltWithUnrealBuildTool Win32 ------
2>------ Build started: Project: CardinalMenu, Configuration: Development_Editor x64 ------
2>Compiling game modules for hot reload
2>Performing 1 actions (4 in parallel)
2>[1/1] Link UE4Editor-CardinalMenu-9919.dll
2>LINK : fatal error LNK1181: cannot open input file 'C:\Program Files\Epic Games\UE_4.18\Engine\Plugins\AdvancedSessions\AdvancedSessions\Intermediate\Build\Win64\UE4Editor\Development\UE4Editor-AdvancedSessions.lib'
2>ERROR : UBT error : Failed to produce item: D:\CardinalMenu_Project_v171227_418\CardinalMenu_Project_v171227_418\Binaries\Win64\UE4Editor-CardinalMenu-9919.dll
2>Total build time: 1.08 seconds (Local executor: 0.00 seconds)
2>C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Community\Common7\IDE\VC\VCTargets\Microsoft.MakeFile.Targets(44,5): error MSB3075: The command ""C:\Program Files\Epic Games\UE_4.18\Engine\Build\BatchFiles\Build.bat" CardinalMenuEditor Win64 Development "D:\CardinalMenu_Project_v171227_418\CardinalMenu_Project_v171227_418\CardinalMenu.uproject" -waitmutex" exited with code 5. Please verify that you have sufficient rights to run this command.
2>Done building project "CardinalMenu.vcxproj" -- FAILED.
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@Thaddeus The previous test was correct, and it was not correct to start the test after yesterday.
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@Thaddeus 4.14 version, I was in Chongqing, China, wired network, different computer test, opened steam, set up a host computer, other computer connections failed to search for this host. It was all right before, it was yesterday, the test connection was not up, the search was not the host.
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test App ID 480
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Search LAN is ok, open steam, search the host is fail....
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Do you have any contact?
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I found that there is a problem, joinsession, join the success, but will not jump to the new map, the local area network can, steam is not.
