Calculate velocity between two points

[Sergey547]

Hi, I need help!!! How to calculate the exact velocity with the arc between a start point and the end point?
I’ve got a third-person character, when he goes to a special area (jump pad), he must jump to the exact point.

[Everynone]

when he goes to a special area (jump pad), he must jump to the exact point.

Would this work?

Launch character to a target location

I’ve added a couple of bells & whistles, some much needed control, limiters to keep things in check and variables to parametrise it: [Image from Gyazo] The general idea: we generate a spline between us and the click location with the mid point elevated we use a timeline to project a point along the spline over the timeline duration we adjust player velocity so it chases that point closely In short, it’s a glorified rubberband that works surprisingly well. LMB: set landing location Mouse S…

This is all fake, with lots of control and nothing to calculate. You can land wherever you desire. I’d build a jump-pad actor with a spline and manually place points where needed.

Technically you could arrive at reasonable results using trial & error launch but that’d get tedious rather fast.

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For manual and more physically accurate jump, I’d look into leveraging this node:

Or work the other way round with:

This would take a lot of guesswork out of the design, you get points and can then (optionally) turn them into a spline to glide along. Think of this option as of a visual tool that helps with obtaining data you can then punch into the character launch node.

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Also, there’s navmesh:

Navmesh Content Examples

Namely:

Unreal Engine 4 Tutorial // NavLinkProxy ( to Jump between NavMesh gaps )

[Sergey547]

@Launch character to a target location

I’ve added a couple of bells & whistles, some much needed control, limiters to keep things in check and variables to parametrise it: [Image from Gyazo] The general idea: we generate a spline between us and the click location with the mid point elevated we use a timeline to project a point along the spline over the timeline duration we adjust player velocity so it chases that point closely In short, it’s a glorified rubberband that works surprisingly well. LMB: set landing location Mouse S…

Thank you a lot!!!