Able Ability System Info and Support Thread

[ExtraLifeMatt]

@intoxicat3

hmn I think you should try to create fully game or game jam using Able you will then see a lot of things that can be exposed. Just try to be modular, don’t create ability for each custom thing as lot of things can be done without adding another abilities. I think your architecture could be more opened to BPs, that’s all. Faster to work then.

And I found issue with Play Animation node and Ability Play Rate. When your animation use Dynamic Montage it won’t use GetPlayRate from BP just GetBasePlayRate() from CPP which always will be 1.

Really love your plugin don’t get me wrong but still I think you should invest more time and try to create full game using it.

I’ll look at adding a way to get the context for an Ability (which you can get the running tasks on). There’s definitely a balance to be had between exposure to BPs and not letting the user shoot themselves in the foot.

Do you have the Scale With Ability Play Rate turned on? That will call the dynamic binding for the Play Rate (hit the + next to the Play Rate on the Ability and create a binding there). There was a bug with Ability Dynamic Fields not binding at runtime, but if you have the latest that was fixed in 3.1.

I do use Able for my own games (that’s where it started actually), but people use it in ways I don’t (for example, your Task conditions you added) so I’m always interested to see the feedback. I tend to make lots of discrete Abilities that do one small thing and exit, but others create “Uber Abilities” that drive tons of stuff. Both are valid approaches, just different styles.

EDIT: To be clear, Play Rate is the **Ability **Play rate. I don’t currently have a dynamic animation-only play rate (although I could add that easily now).