I’m creating a 2d fighting game and I’m stuck on why I’m getting different values from different blueprints for my actor’s forward vector. When I print my actor’s forward vector from the actual character blueprint event graph I get what is expected, which is a positive forward vector in the x (+1.0) when facing my opponent on the left side and negative forward vector when turning to face my opponent from the right side (-1.0). However, when trying to grab that same forward vector and print the results from my animation blueprint which is attached to my character blueprint, I only ever get a positive forward vector value in the x (+1.0) and never a negative value when I turn to face my opponent from behind him (on the right side of him). I don’t know why I’m getting two different results for my forward vector every frame. Here is my Animation blueprint code:
Here is my 2d game with the output of the string shown on the left of the screen every frame. If you can’t read it is says x is +1.0 which is correct as my character is facing forward in the positive x direction:
However, when I’m on the other side facing in the negative x direction, the animation blueprint still outputs a +1.0 forward vector which is not correct:
