Able Ability System Info and Support Thread

[ExtraLifeMatt]

Able v2.21 is submitted. Notes below.

• BUGFIX: Fixed an issue that prevented projects using Able from packaging properly after the v2.20 update.
• BUGFIX: Fix to CalculateCooldown not being called properly.
• BUGFIX: Fix to CanLoopExecute not being called properly.
• FEATURE: Added “Dynamic Animation Asset” option to Play Animation Task. When enabled, “OnGetAnimationAsset” C++/BP Event will be called and the Animation Asset returned from there will be used as the Animation for the Play Animation Task. This is helpful if you want to do some sort of dynamic table look up or such for animations, but the rest of the Ability is the same across multiple characters.
• FEATURE: Added “ShouldCancelAbility” C++/BP Event. This is called by the Cancel Ability Task and allows you to specify custom logic to decide whether or not to cancel an Ability running on the actor the task is targeting. Note that the specific Ability and Tag based check are still executed as well, so if you want total control, simply leave those fields blank on the task.

@mesterKG The easiest option is probably just to add an Ability Component to your bow and have it play a really simple animation. That means your Weapon has to be an Actor, but if that’s already the case then that’s no big deal. The other option is to set some variable on your character that your Animation Blueprint then reads and force plays the firing animation or what not on that weapon skeletal mesh. You could use Able’s Custom Event Task to set that variable from the Abilites you want to use the weapon animation (a normal bow shot vs just a charge).

EDIT:
Oh and a user started a discord server for fellow Able users: [FONT=“Calibri”]Able Ability System UE4