BP Time Attack Racer: Checkpoint Event Graph Script | 05 | v4.8 Tutorial Series | Unreal Engine 

Completely agreed. I've got a few years in scripting languages but could barely keep up with exactly why we were creating all the setup beforehand. The other videos this guy does are great, but this series seems to be a bit more 'just do as i do', despite when he does explain things. Doing the setup as needed would've been a better approach.

You technically can just set the checkpoint number and bind the event in one loop. I wonder if this guy knows how to actually code?

he actually said you can do this but ge did this his way for the blueprint to look more.....hmm....like more... beautifull xD

@@lv9735 that's stupid

In my case it's myPLayerController, but still I cannot fint cast to my player controller...

You need to cast to Player controller not Player if you want to cast to player use get player pawn node then cast it to player vehicle

@Jefferson, i had the same problem. What i did is double click on MyPlayerController to open it, and then i could cast.

@@MichalNizinski I had the same problem until I read your comment. many thanks for the tip. lifesaver.

For anyone watching this still - When you right click, in the upper right hand corner there is a check box and the words "Contextual Sensitive". Uncheck this box, and try looking for the MyPlayerController again. It should come up. If you want, you can then re-check that box to maintain similar searches to the tutorial.

***** Please share your almighty knowledge and tell us what could be improved < 3

The way he's set it up, there's a bunch of code that runs for each checkpoint unnecessarily. He's starting the game music as many times as there are checkpoints and there's a second loop inside the first one... It works but it made me cringe a little. Sorry if that came off as pretentious, that wasn't my intention.

***** Agreed, I'm shocked that everything is connected in the loop body and also that we use two loops when we can easily do the Checkpoint number set and event binding in the first "loop body" and then plug the rest in the Completed pin. I wonder if he's going to change it in a future video though.

***** "It works but it made me cringe a little." I'm in the ground screaming "noooooooooooo" Darth Vader style. Kidding, but this kind of things happens.

to be honest these are vids which are supposed to show us how to make things work.. (I would think..?) seeing these kinds of basic 'fails' is pathetic to put it in a deservedly harsh fashion.. that being said, most people would be able to fix it reasonably quickly -- and doing so sets the bool 'has fiddled with project' to true and once u've done that, why not fiddle with some other things - and learn a bunch that way This would be a semi-decent way of poking people into taking those 'fiddle with it' steps if they're 'shy' or scared or watever. But on an actual "this is how to" level, it's *really* bad. - Im codenoob and as soon as the total checkpoints got set via length inside the loop body my brain triggered and went "dude this should be before the loop start.." Reading the comments it seems it's gonna get worse with the audio being done in the loop as well? That just makes me go "you can do that without making the sound trip the hell out?" but yea.

Did you ever figure this out? I'm running into the same problem

I appreciate the effort though :)

Not shocked, I'm halfway through the 5th video and the only actual piece of functionality he's implemented yet is a vanishing checkpoint. If you made a single mistake in any of those videos it won't show up till several videos later. For example, I just did the step getting an item from the checkpoint array and tried passing it to Activate Checkpoint, and it wouldn't link. I'm an experienced programmer so it only took me a few seconds to figure out the types mismatched and that Activate Checkpoint should be taking a Checkpoint and not an int as an input. But I can see an actual novice getting completely lost at that stage since there's no way to test any of the work you did. The only way to really follow the logic and guess where he's going is to have programming skills well in excess of what's supposedly assumed for this tutorial. In a way I'm the perfect audience as I have the coding ability to understand how these bits will fit together logically, and so probably am saving a bit of time. But I'm also getting bored since so far it's writing a bunch of stuff without running it.