Why does my blueprint return zero for world location, and still 0 even when adding another vector to it?

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As you can see in the screenshot, I don’t understand how those values can make sense

  • GetWorldLocation is 0,0,0, even though my character is absolutely not at the 0 position
  • Velocity does have a value
  • vector + vector operation on those two values should return the value of the velocity, assuming GetWorldLocation is 0 (which it shouldn’t). Yet, its output value is 0,0,0

It seems to me that GetWorldLocation is returning a wrong value, and vector add is completely not doing what it should be. What could be the reason for that?

Note that I tried to get the world location from the actor too, and got the same 0,0,0 result.

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are those values while playing the game? i would try a print string to make sure that the values are accurate.

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The values being watched weren’t actually connected to any execution node (I forgot a blueprint link) and those strange results seem to appear in this situation. I assume the Vector add node was showing 0 as a result simply because it wasn’t executed at all.

I would have expected it to show “Out of scope” or something when the nodes aren’t connected, but turns out it doesn’t.

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It was while playing the game, turns out that my nodes just weren’t connected and the debugger shows weird results in that case