I wanted to set up a gun that has a switch on it, for switching between burst and single shot.
Following that awesome tutorial Zak Parish made I was able to get my own gun mesh in the game. It works almost perfect, but I want to modify it. So I was hoping I could get some help on implementing the Firemode switch, and the burst.
To implement the burst shot what functions/BPs would I need to change? Is it required that I modify the gun_base_BP? Perhaps I could use existing notify events to set one trigger pull to shoot 3 shots?
How can I flip the switch? (I’m doing on a Vive, so my interaction is limited). I was thinking of doing it like so:
Put a trigger box on the switch. If the gun is equipped (grabbed) in the right hand, move an empty left hand into the trigger and do the grab action or trigger pull to toggle the switch. (Doing it way won’t affect the current functionality of weapons because, unless they can be held in 2 hands, they can’t be interacted with by the player’s other hand when held.)
End overlap node has the “Left Hand ==” node plugged into “Other Actor” and not “Overlapped Component” like the “BeginOverlap” node. Should that be right, or?
I made’em match, though, so that Begin and End were checking the same “Overlapper”; tried both (Begin and End) checking “Overlapped Component”, “Other Actor” and “Other Comp”, and none of them worked. It never hit that breakpoint on True.
I’m guessing I’m getting the wrong reference to the hands. Jsyk, is the first time I’ve messed with a VR player character. I know nothing about how it may be different from a standard character.
I’m totally in the dark here, and can’t find any specific tutorials about getting VR hand references in robo recall. I guess I’ll look around for some tuts for leads in hopes that those setups are similar to RR’s.
