Add light on FirstPersonCharacter BP (as Flashlight) and have some delay when moving

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Hello everyone !

(Sorry for my bad english)

I recently start to study UnrealEngine BluePrint for my personnal project (Horror game mood)
and i have some issues with the FirstPersonCharacter : I think is quite simple, but i don’t succed to find where the settings/problem is.

I delete the BP nodes used by the weapon/bullets FirstPersonCharacter and add flashlight instead (spotlight and mesh link to the Mesh2P), with BP switch on/off .
Working well, except when i start moving around in the level with the character, my light has a weird moving delay (about 1s) as if i was running to fast for 1s and it catch me up 1s later after i stop…

On the event Graph, where the Gun/Weapon nodes was apply previously i linked my flashlight mesh node > [Flashlight]-------[–>o(Target) - Set Hidden in Game] (Pic.01)

Maybe it’s the Attach to Component in the Construction Script which i modify, who creates issues ?
Before in the target slot was link the Gun/Weapon node, and now i link the Mesh2P twice. (Pic.02)
Because, if i let the target slot empty the BluePrint don’t want to compile and run, and when i plug my Flashlight mesh node, Unreal BP resize my flashlight as big as the previous weapon was. That’s why finally i plug my Mesh2P twice…

So…I’m little lost…

  1. The issue could be provide from my delete Weapon/Bullet nodes ? Or just bad linked nodes ?
  2. Which settings/nodes could be tweak for remove this delay ?
  3. What kind of Nodes/BP i can use on the Target Slot in the Attach To Component to avoid using my Mesh2P twice?
  4. Thanks for reading this guys :slight_smile: - If you need more info or screens, ask me !

Thanks !

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Hi. I think the Best solution is to parent the spotlight to the player mesh and attached it to the head socket. i already set up a similar system sometimes ago and their is no delay in the spotlight.

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Hi Fatimaceesay ! Thanks for anwsering !

I try your way, and it work fine for the mesh (flashlight) : Thanks !
But doesn’t work for the sportlight (i don’t know why)
When i link the spotlight to any socket of the Mesh2P my spotlight rotation became useless : I still can modify roation value, but it’s doesn’t apply to the sportlight…