Able Ability System Info and Support Thread

[ExtraLifeMatt]

@fernmerc

Ahh so you mean like a separate line trace from the tip of the sword to the hit actor, and then spawn it on that location?

Correct. Or you could just fake it easily by something like:

• Create a Vector going from the Actor who caused our damage, to the Actor who was hit by the damage.
• Normalize that vector then scale it by our Hit Actor’s bounds size (XY).
• Set the Z to whatever the Component who hit us Z is.
• Spawn the particle at that location.

Something like that. The trace is probably easier, at the cost of a bit more performance (but again, it’s not even fired unless you know the trace will hit something so that will help).

@duke22

Sorry if this has already been asked, but can you do damage over time effects?

Sure. I actually do that in the Burning Man video. Basically I just create a passive with a damage task and set it to loop X times. The length of the passive Ability is the length of a single damage “tick”.