Able Ability System Info and Support Thread

[ExtraLifeMatt]

@Jose_Gabriel

Hello,

Found a bug since the new update I cannot use the overlap watcher task a collision dependency for Apply Damage Task.

To replicate just create a overlap watcher task mark copy to context and collision channel to pawn and then add a apply damage task.

plz since update i broke the whole project

I haven’t changed anything with Overlap Watcher in a LONGGG time. Is Verbose mode telling you anything?

Able v3.32 Submitted, notes below:

• Rewrote Custom Tasks save/restore functionality. Now properties are completely serialized and re-added if the Custom Task is re-compiled for whatever reason. This has the added benefit of just being more robust in general. So, you should no longer see any Custom Task fields reset if you re-compile your Custom Task.
• Fix to Sub Objects not being accessible outside of the package (h/t Jeremy). You saw this if you had a child ability, you’d likely get a warning about trying to link to private objects and then the editor would just hang and then end up failing anyway. Now those flags are properly propagated down. The fix up code is executed automatically once you launch the UE4 Editor. Any Abilities that get fixed up will be marked as dirty (but should be fine after that).
• Added new Context Menu (Right-click) options: Copy Task, Paste Task (h/t Jeremy). This will copy the Task temporarily to your clipboard and you can paste it into another Ability (or the same). This just copies the path of the object to the clipboard, so don’t delete the Task until you finish copying it around (you also can’t just CTRL+C/V in discord or whatever and have that work).
• Added “Always Forward to Server” option in the Able Settings. This option will always send the Ability requested by the client to the server. This is how Able works by default, and thus is enabled by default. However, if you want to decrease your RPCs, you can disable that option and Able will only send Abilities that the Client successfully executes locally to the server (who will still do it’s own validation). I would only change this option if you see failed ability RPCs as a lot of your bandwidth.
• Play Animation Tasks can now have a user specified length. There is also an option to treat the manual length as an interrupt when it finishes so you can stop the animation / clear the queue, etc. This is just to give users more control over how long their animation plays. Play Rate is still applied to manual time.