Adding my own buttons to BPW_MapMenu
I'm looking for some help from somebody who knows about UI/widget modding. I am attempting to add some buttons to the BPW_MapMenu hierarchy. Specifically, the map menu has the "Show Stamps on Map" checkbox button at the bottom and I'm trying to add some of my own buttons alongside it. I've attached an unreal editor screenshot of the hierarchy I'm talking about, with the button I'm trying to create siblings for highlighted.
My approach has been to create a UVerticalBox containing my button (starting with one) and add it to the [Overlay] widget, so the vbox is itself a sibling to the mShowStampsButton. But nothing I added to the vbox shows up. I am inexperienced with UI programming, so I don't know if I'm doing something wrong or just falling into common pitfalls. Here's some code to show what I'm doing:
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Solution:
To recap the solution, rather than piece together widgets in C++, I made the whole widget in UE and then used Bind on BP Function: Construct to find and insert the widget at runtime, but only because widget blueprint hooks didn't work (the widget only got inserted on the first map screen open... there's a quirk there that somebody might want to sort out... I'd do it if I had more time right now). Then I had to sort out button layout and alignment, which yeshjho helped with.
Trying to access game meshes with FModel.
I tried following the steps on this guide https://docs.ficsit.app/satisfactory-modding/latest/Development/ExtractGameFiles.html on how to extract game meshes from the game, but it didnt seem to work.
I had at first discovered the fact that I needed to use Unreal 5_3 on my own, which allowed me to view the files in general. However, many files are missing from the lists, which can be seen in the screenshot below where I am viewing the FICSIT foundation folder, where there should be far more pieces than are actually present.
I tried following the other steps, like inserting the custom versions information, and providing the directory to the Local Mapping Directory (.usmap) file but this did not help....
Get the player's "nametag"/"chat" name
I need a string to identify players for an external API. I don't mind if the name is not stable across sessions (ex. player changing their Steam display name). My first thought for this was the player's nametag name - how can I get a player's display name as it appears in the BPW_PlayerNameTag widget from a server context? Alternatively, any other string identifier for players should work for my use case.
Solution:
PlayerState's Get PlayerName function seems to return it. tested on dedicated server, code running server side, and it gives me the name that appears when I send a chat message
The following packages could not be installed...
I'm following the modding documentation getting started guide and am installing Visual Studio Community 2022. I got the following list of packages unable to be found when importing the SML.vsconfig configuration file. Is this normal and expected or have I managed to royally mess stuff up?
Solution:
I guess if you run into the same issue, wait 15 mins and try again!
Exit code 6 MSB3073
While setting up my environment in vs 2022, I went to go build FactoryGame and I got 1 build fail what exited with code 6.
Solution:
@Robb (PC no longer dead) @Rex [they/them] Thanks for your help! I uninstalled the engine and reinstalled it and realized that the win64 bin1 file was not in the same folder and that it could have messed up the build.
Crash when re-load
In my Architecture+ mod, I configure the customizations with this code:
If I save the game and reload it directly, so without leaving the game, it crashes
I think that reloading does not empty the memory of the customizations and there is therefore a conflict
How to empty the memory before reloading these customizations?
I tried with the 3 outputs of Switch on ELifecyclePhase but it doesn't change anything...
Solution:
Ah, try making it a Game Instance Module instead
How to replace a font?
Does anyone have any tips about modding a font? I've been trying to change this
DescriptionText font, but so far unsuccessful. I'm only interested in changing it for Signs, if that's a simpler task.