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

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

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.

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

Hey can you please expand on this? Set relative rotation on what exactly? Really would appreciate elaboration on this thank you

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

How did you manage that?

That's what he did in the video 😬

Yeah I could probably do that :) I've got a few videos planned first, but I'll definitely look at it!

hi, did you find a solution for this ? i would be interested too

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.

11 months later, Did you find a fix?

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

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!

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 :)

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

same here

I get the same issue...trying to solve...

Did you ever solve this? I am having the same issue.

Same goes for me as well! I can't find "follow camera variable". I am using UE5 btw...what about you?

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 :)

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.

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.

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.

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.

Great tip! Thanks for sharing :)

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!!

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!

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?

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!

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!

fixed no follow camera lol

@@xxglassheroxx I can't find it anywhere.. Where did you find it?

stick it to the player on screen instead of the camera

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.

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

try scaling the image width and setting to repeat horizontal

when I adjust the size for myself in the hud in the game it disappears at about 180 degrees of rotation

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.