Able Ability System Info and Support Thread

[ExtraLifeMatt]

@Nosh88

I have three questions for you sir,

1: Why does my preview asset seem to be duplicating every now and then when I make a change to the ability and then save it.

2: I am having issues with my collision queries not properly working. I’ve got a cone shape with its collision channel set to pawn, and is filtering my player character and it is set to Negate (also filtering self actor). Targets are set to target actors. My pawns are setup to the default “pawn” collision channels.

3: Verbose does not seem to be printing out debug information on ability execute.

1. Preview Asset duplicating would happen if you have the Preview Asset’s blueprint open and then you compile it, which cause the actor to get re-instantiated I believe. If you hit “Reset Preview Actor” it should clear up any dupes.

2. & 3. Verbose definitely works. You can check your Output log. If you aren’t seeing anything, then it likely means the Task itself isn’t being executed for some reason (Targeting possibly, some other condition not letting it execute). You should get a “play by play” in the log if you turn Verbose on the Ability and on the Task itself. Also make sure you have an Able Ability Component on your Preview Actor, otherwise Able tries to add one at runtime - but that rarely seems to work for whatever reason. Just add it in the actual blueprint of the Preview Actor and close/re-open the editor.