👍Emotes

Stable - Can be used with minimal support by referencing documentation and examples

Emotes in use in a test gym

Overview

Emotes are used primarily to non-verbally communicate with other users.

• Emote Selection - The set of emotes that appear in the Emote Wheel UI (WBP_EmoteSelector) are configured via the Roles table using the Emote Selection property.

• Emote Selection can be overridden at runtime via Blueprint on the JM_PlayerEmoteComponent

Integration

Emotes are enabled by default in Origin and are accessed via the JM_PlayerEmoteComponent

Basic Usage

Pressing the emote action button (by default this is the B key on your keyboard) in game opens the Emote Wheel UI (WBP_EmoteSelector). Users can play any of the visible emotes by clicking on the icons.

WBP_EmoteSelector with the default emote set

Alternatively, the Emote Wheel UI can be opened via the on screen button in the bottom right of the screen.

Configuring Emote Settings for Roles

Enabling/Disabling Emotes for a role

Emotes are defaulted to enabled for all roles, but can be disabled for a role in your project's roles data table by:

1. In your editor, enable Emotes Enabled in the Role Configuration Overrides section of the Role Configuration section of the roles data table to expose it.

   
2. Change the Emotes Enabled setting to true or false to enable or disable emotes for this role

Configuring Default Emote Selection

You can configure which emotes are available in your experience in your project's roles data table by:

1. In your editor, enable Emote Selection in the Role Configuration Overrides section of the Role Configuration section of the roles data table to expose it.

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3. Assign a J_EmoteSelectionData asset to the Emote Selection setting.

Emote Selection Setting on the Role

By default these emotes are available:

Emote Selection settings

Field	Description
Profile as Emote	Emote used to show the Player's profile picture
Pick Me Emote	This emote is used in place of the Player's profile picture when Profile as Emote is disabled via the live config flag Profile.ProfileAsEmoteEnabled
Emotes	This is an array containing all other emotes. To use the default WBP_EmoteSelector UI, this must be 7 elements long.

Live Config Settings

All emote settings live in game.json

Key	Default Value	Description
Emotes.Enabled	true	Project wide setting to enable/disable emotes
Emotes.EmoteWheelEnabled	true	Project wide setting to enable/disable the emote wheel UI
Emotes.ClearEmoteSelectionOverridesOnRoleChanged	false	Setting to optionally clear all override settings on role changes. See Overriding Emote Settings at Runtime
Emotes.MaxObjectPoolSize	20	Max number of Emote objects to pool.
Emotes.MaxSoundDistance	5000.0	Max distance for emote sounds to be heard