Able Ability System Info and Support Thread

[ExtraLifeMatt]

@AngeIV

1. Will it call on the parent object though or it will use the default class variables that i seted up for the child?
2. I look into it.
3. Main difference is that you can have only 1 active ability t a time so no need to do pesky tests “if has ability running” or something as it will not trigger a new one. It could branch though. It was easy… for example race abiltiy gives character a tag race.NAME and i just check if he has tag “race.” at all … if so - one of racial abilities are applied. so i don’t need to keep it alive and no other race ability will trigger. But I jsut figured I can make race an ability all together and just stack it with every level…
4. Can I for example get from context ability component create ability of specific class and run ability? I mean i can do it without error in BP, but will it work without breaking?

1. That’s only for functions. Variables should be inherited if you set them to be (I assume BP allows that).
2. Yes, Actives are limited to “one at a time” because it’s such a common use case. Rather than have some looping ability for Race, I would likely just have an Ability that runs when the Player starts (OnBeginPlay or some such), and just have it apply the tag. You can re-apply the Ability on level up if you expect it to do something fancy on certain levels, etc.
3. I don’t understand this question. You should be passing in an Ability Class -> Get Ability Object From Class -> Create Context -> Activate Ability. Are you asking if you can do it in C++? Sure. Everything that runs in BP is actually just C++ under the hood. Just grab the UClass for the Ability -> Grab the CDO -> Create Context -> Call Activate Ability on the Ability Component.