Able Ability System Info and Support Thread

ExtraLifeMatt · February 7, 2022, 12:49am

Able v3.75 submitted, notes below:

Able v3.75

Added Blueprint Event Delegates to the Able Ability Component

On Ability Start - called when an Ability beings to play on the component.

On Ability Interrupt - called when an Ability is interrupted on the component.

On Ability Branch- called when an Ability is branched on the component.

On Ability End - called when an Ability is ended on the component (along with the result - successful, interrupted, branched).
NOTE: On Ability End is called in the case of Branch/Interrupt as well (with the appropriate result). There is no real difference between the callbacks (as both are called), they are merely separated for organizational purposes.

Added “Create Context with Location” BP Function to pass in a location directly into the context.

Added “3D Slice” option to Cone Queries / Targeting. This causes the origin of the query not to coalesce like a normal cone, but instead keeps a uniform height (like a slice of pie / cake).

Added Debug drawing support for 3D slice option.

Exposed Get/SetTargetLocation on the Ability Context. NOTE: You can only set the target location BEFORE you call activate Ability (at which point the context becomes immutable and you’ll have to go through the Modify Context Task, etc to make any other changes).

Fix to crash in Ability Animation Mode in certain cases where we would end up with a null animation mid-update.

Clear Queue on the Ability Animation Mode now properly clears the cached pose as well.

Max stacks can once again be 0 which means infinite stacks. You still apply at least 1 stack, but you will never hit the stack limit.

Fix to Branch Input conditional to act more like Channel input conditional and not care about if the game is networked or not - it only cares if the user is locally controlled.

Fix to Clang compiler warnings about not having explicit scope / complaining about copying a ranged for loop value.

Removed some old code that was causing some false positives in the asset dirty state when opening an ability (then UE would ask you to save the asset again despite not having made any changes).

Fix to AI Play Ability / Stop Ability not properly finding Blackboard Ability assets.