Able Ability System Info and Support Thread

[ExtraLifeMatt]

@MarGon

I suggest to make the preview component rotation yaw -90 by default. all the assets on the marketplace are setup like this. if you don’t do it, its gonna make a terrible first impression after buying the plugin.

I initially thought of doing that, but then you’d have the opposite problem. Maybe it’s the lesser of two evils though.

@MarGon

The animation arrow button “Use Selected Asset From Content Browser” is not working. drag and drop neither and even selecting it manualy doenst work. (4.23)

it just works if you select the animation when you create the task. that means you allways have to type in the name manualy or copy it in and then you can not change the animation unless you remove the task and start over again. its driving me crazy. especially if you have tons of animations associated to the skeleton you work with. its a real workflow issue to me.

Update: It does work with montages.

I’ve seen this happen on and off and I’m not sure the cause. There is nothing marking that field as read only. In fact, that field is marked as Edit Anywhere and the Selected Asset from Browser is just standard UE code. I’ll keep poking at it.

@MarGon

here is an other bug:
when renaming abilities while having some open will cause crashes very fast as soon as you do a few clicks somewhere. its a very reliable crash. can get it crash under 1min but still found no pattern to reproduce it. sidenote: the abilities have branches but they do not reference on of the renamed

Not terribly shocked by this. You could be renaming a blueprint that is mid compiling in the background, or invalidating some internal pointer in the editor. If you get a solid repro, let me know. In the meantime, I’d simply close the Ability editor when renaming things.

@MarGon

here are a few questions:

1. i tried to get a combo working with animations that transition when they branching like in the combo tutorial video. so i setup the state machine like in the tutorial on the documentation page. but even tho he plays the animation in the state machine there is no blending at all. same result as normal animations or montages. i tried to uncheck stop on interrupt because i thought it might just cancel the animation but it didn’t do anything for this case. is there any hidden checkbox, or a hidden setup in the anim blueprint that i might have missed or is this be a bug?

2. is there any way to debug the targeting? i didn’t got the turn to task work with the targeting, always resulted in wired rotations. i got it working with a collision query task at the beginning of each ability tho. but still i think with targeting this would require less setup.

appart from the rough start it looks very promising. creating a custom task was very easy what is important to customize it to your own needs. i really hope its possible to get animation blending for branching to work.

1. There is inherent blending with the Able Ability Animation Node and it definitely works as long as you let the system manage things and are passing in Animation Instances (not montages). Montages have their own complex blending system that you’re better off just using Dynamic Montages with.

2. Targeting and Collision Query use the same code. If you enable the “Draw Collision Queries” option, you should see the same thing. As for debugging it, just turn on Verbose mode and it should tell you how many targets it found, etc.

@MarGon

here is an other bug:
after restarting the engine the custom task i added in the time line in every ability is gone and left is just an empty task.
yes i saved the abiliy before closing the editor and the task was doing what it was supposed to do in the game but after restart it doenst do it anymore.

That’s an old bug that should be fixed. A good way to prevent that in general is to save your custom task, compile it, test it, etc. Then go and add it to your Abilities. Basically measure twice cut once. Granted this isn’t possible if you’re being highly iterative with Custom Tasks (and I’ll run my local custom tasks through and make sure I didn’t miss some edge case), but that’s been the only fool proof strategy I’ve found with the rather dynamic nature of Blueprints linking other Blueprints.